(Adds comment from Sierra Club) By Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz PHOENIX, May 14 (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- Natural gas drillers would be required to disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" on public lands, accordi...
AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 04.03.2012
BALTIMORE (AP) — The view off the mid-Atlantic shore in the next decade could include giant wind turbines generating electricity for homes in severa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will double down on his "all-of-the-above" energy strategy on Thursday when he announces the Interior Department'...
AP | MATT VOLZ | Posted 01.03.2012
HELENA, Mont. — An Interior Department report released Thursday identifies 101 high-priority conservation projects across the nation as part of ...
AP | By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 12.12.2011
NEW ORLEANS -- Federal regulators on Wednesday cited oil company BP PLC and two other companies – Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton – for al...
Bill Eikenberry | Posted 11.23.2011
Despite claims by oil and gas companies, the truth is that we can have both more responsible energy development and common sense protections for western lands.
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 11.13.2011
WASHINGTON — Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush have designated public land as national monuments, using a federal law to prot...
Jackie Savitz | Posted 11.08.2011
If you were BP, wouldn't you wait for the right time to go back to the U.S. government to ask for more permits to drill? What would seem like a good time to do that?
AP | By MATTHEW DALY | Posted 09.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- In a rare defeat for Republican leadership, the House has backed a Democratic proposal allowing the Interior Department to continue addi...
Gene Karpinski | Posted 09.26.2011
This energy and environment spending bill contains more than three dozen anti-environment policy measures that have absolutely no place in a budget measure.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 09.24.2011
WASHINGTON -- With eight days until the country officially defaults on its debts, likely sparking a worldwide credit crisis, the House of Representati...
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 | Lucia Graves | Posted 09.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans outlined a fiscal 2012 spending bill on Wednesday that would sharply cut the Department of the Interior's conservation...
Dennis Takahashi-Kelso | Posted 08.27.2011
We have the opportunity to do things right in Arctic waters, but only if we take the time to understand this extraordinary and fragile part of our national and natural heritage
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Corbin Hiar | Posted 06.19.2011
WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore and author-turned-climate-activist Bill McKibben were among the big names headlining the Power Shift envir...
The Colorado Independent | Posted 06.14.2011
The State of Colorado and the U.S. Forest Service today announced yet another draft version of the controversial Colorado Roadless Rule (pdf) that has...
Posted 06.13.2011
The federal Bureau of Land Management announced on Wednesday that it is prepared to begin a process to take a fresh look at commercial oil shale devel...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Update on...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Not out o...
AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans Tuesday to auction off vast coal reserves in Wyoming over the next five months, unle...
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Dennis Webb | Posted 05.25.2011
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the Bureau of Land Management expects to process 7,200 oil and gas drilling permits this year, up from about 5,000...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Eastern C...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Dems call...
Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012