Last Tuesday the Department of Interior (DOI) announced that all active duty service members and their families could use public lands for free. I know this doesn't fix other problems, but it's a significant gesture of thanks in a very public, meaningful way.
Dennis Takahashi-Kelso | Posted 04.19.2012
We need to decide whether it is appropriate to lease sensitive areas of the ocean for oil and gas development. To make smart decisions, though, we need solid scientific information -- and that information does not exist for most "frontier" areas.
HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 04.18.2012
Two years after BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig foundered and sank in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members and unleashing an ...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.02.2012
While no energy development can be completely safe, drilling and fracking can be made safer than current operations. But this is only possible if the state and federal governments adopt and enforce much stronger laws and standards.
Mark Tercek | Posted 05.01.2012
Given difficult challenges for the Federal budget and the economy, you might expect support of conservation and the environment to weaken in the U.S. But, when we Americans are at our best, hard times can actually result in creativity and innovation.
Stacy Bare | Posted 04.23.2012
We can use the President's proposal as a springboard for encouraging more veterans to find work in outdoor and outside professions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- Another presidential pick has fallen victim to the Senate's nomination process. Rebecca Wodder, whose nomination by President Barack...
David Helvarg | Posted 03.24.2012
With the bitter partisanship in today's Washington it's hard to imagine the Republicans in Congress giving President Obama the power to implement even his far more modest governmental reorganization plan before next November's elections.
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced Tuesday that it will hold a hearing next week about Occupy DC's McPherson ...
Bill Meadows | Posted 01.18.2012
The National Landscape Conservation System contains an enormous number of our nation's wildest and most historically significant public lands.
AP | By DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.20.2011
WASHINGTON -- The former chief of staff to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has taken a job with one of the law firms representing BP in legal proceedin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 10.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are looking to appropriations bills they plan to debate when they return from recess in September as an opportunity to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 10.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced the federal government will move forward with plans to accept applications to...
AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 09.13.2011
DENVER — Federal officials are refining their plan for speeding up solar energy development in zones of public lands in six western states, afte...
HuffingtonPost.com | Corbin Hiar | Posted 07.13.2011
WASHINGTON -- Charges against 21 activists who staged a sit-in at Department of the Interior headquarters last month were dropped by the U.S. Attorney...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 06.21.2011
The ASBL maintains that contracting officers who intentionally misrepresent large businesses as small should be prosecuted, and held accountable for their actions.
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 06.15.2011
The Huffington Post is a sponsor of the Center for Public Integrity iWatch News by Aaron Mehta Even as leaders grapple with the nation's fiscal trou...
Peter H. Gleick | Posted 05.29.2011
A report on the Point Reyes National Seashore debacle from the Department of the Interior has been released that acknowledges the scientific arguments of damage from the oyster farm are false.
Jeffrey Flocken | Posted 05.25.2011
Americans kill hundreds of African lions each year. They don't do it for protection or for food or as a cultural tradition passed down from generatio...
Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
When police adopt more high tech and sophisticated policing techniques and rigorous performance metrics, crime goes down. We need to apply that same approach to our efforts to manage and police environmental quality.
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011
Fort Sumter National Monument is taking the first shot at ushering in a new era of energy independence with plans to take the island off the electric utility grid and make it completely self-sufficient.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 05.25.2011
We simply cannot continue approving permits that are rife with false claims such as support from experts who have long since passed away or environmental impact reports on animals that don't even reside in the region.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
In a bold new effort to counter "ill-informed" statements by coalfield residents and addled scientists, Big Coal is launching a new series of commercials to set the record straight.
latimes.com | Mary Forgione | Posted 05.25.2011
It's tough to visit California's Bodie Hills. Although many travelers turn off U.S. Highway 395 in the Eastern Sierra to see the well-known ghost town...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
It was on this day in 1977 a liberal president who campaigned to end the strip-mining wars signed the admittedly "watered down" Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act as an act of compromise.
Stacy Bare | Posted 05.22.2012