House Interior appropriations bill clears first hurdle
The appropriations bill that includes programs in the Department of the Interior, U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency was advanced last week by the ...
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House committee advances bill to limit Arctic refuge drilling
Last week, the House Natural Resources Committee advanced legislation that would prohibit oil and gas exploration and development along the coastal plain of the ...
New White House policy targets federal agency science use
The White House Office of Management and Budget recently issued a new policy that will provide guidance to federal agencies about the science they use in rulemaking ...
TWS responds to USGS attempts to limit conference engagement
The Wildlife Society, along with the other members of the U.S. Geological Survey Coalition, recently responded to a new policy that would limit USGS employee ...
Interior signs anti-trafficking agreement with Vietnam
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed a memorandum of understanding last week with Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security General Tô Lâm, committing both ...
USFWS reconsiders listing California and Nevada sage-grouse
In Sept. 2018, a federal judge in California vacated the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2015 decision not to list the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus ...