Tag: Department of the Interior

Last week, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testified on the department’s proposed fiscal year 2019 budget before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. The House Natural...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has signed an agreement to move forward with a land swap in order to build a gravel road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, including portions...

The U.S. Department of Interior has increased its oversight of discretionary grant allocations and cooperative agreements made by its various bureaus. According to a Dec. 28 memorandum, all discretionary funding...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has moved one step closer to solidifying his plans for on-the-ground reorganization of the Department of the Interior. These plans, outlined in a meeting last week...

On Jun. 26, TWS joined 45 other organizations and scientists in sending a letter  to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies stressing the need...

On Jun. 22, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced their intent to publish a final rule removing grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) from...

On May 26, the U.S. Department of the Interior filed a petition for a rehearing by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia concerning a decision to...

On May 5, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that meetings for advisory councils, boards, committees, and panels will be postponed while they undergo a review process. On the...

On April 7, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling in favor of the U.S. Association of Reptile Keepers (USARK), lifting restrictions on interstate commerce of injurious species...

On Mar. 16, the White House released the President’s budget blueprint, which gives a preliminary outline of the proposed topline budget for fiscal year 2018 (FY18). In keeping with the...