Interior Secretary Zinke wants to defund a vital land conservation program he supposedly supports

The Biden administration on Monday unveiled a $7.3 trillion Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal to fund the federal government. While the proposal is not expected to be enacted as written, it highlights the Biden administration’s policy priorities for the final year of his first term. In particular, the spending proposal requests a boost in funding for the […]

How we can conserve wildlife corridors to safeguard the West’s wildlif The West has long been lionized for its wide open spaces, vast rangelands, and rugged forests. But growing development is threatening that iconic Western vision. We lose a football field of natural land every two and half minutes to highways, subdivisions, and oil and gas well […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 12, 2018 DENVER—Today, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned leases to 2.85 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska for oil and gas development. Approximately 6 percent of the total acreage offered received bids from the industry. The lease sale netted a paltry $1.5 million, with leases selling for […]

After stocking his department with oil and gas lobbyists, Zinke goes full speed ahead on drilling and mining Last week, as most Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, the Trump administration quietly released two stunning reports detailing the current and forecasted impacts of climate change to the United States. The comprehensive studies concluded that the United States is […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 18, 2018 Updated analysis: Zinke is the subject of 18 open, closed, or requested investigations into his conduct DENVER—In response to today’s reporting by The Washington Post on a report from the Interior Department Inspector General into improper use of government vehicles by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his wife Lola, […]