Aug 24 Interior Department calls for changes to national monuments but offers no details. Here’s how we got here By Nsikan Akpan Interior secretary Ryan Zinke called Thursday for a “handful” of changes to 27 national monuments that have been under review since this spring. The 120-day review, set in motion by an executive order from President Donald Trump, was due… Continue reading
Aug 07 Interior Department scraps Obama-era rule on coal royalties By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Repealing the rule "provides a clean slate to create workable valuation regulations," said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, adding that the repeal will reduce costs that energy companies would otherwise pass on to consumers. Continue reading
Aug 07 Interior to give states economic flexibility on sage grouse By Matthew Daly, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Interior Department on Monday unveiled a plan to protect the threatened sage grouse that gives Western states where the bird lives flexibility for economic development. Miners, ranchers and some Western governors had argued Obama-era policies jeopardized logging… Continue reading
May 08 Interior secretary tours Bears Ears, hotly contested monument in Utah By Michelle L. Price and Brady McCombs, Associated Press U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took an aerial tour Monday of one of America's newest and most hotly contested monuments — one of 27 he's been ordered to review by President Donald Trump to determine if they were properly established. Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch 3:30 Trump’s secretary of state choice sets up possible confirmation fight By PBS News Hour President-elect Donald Trump chose Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state. Tillerson rose through the ranks of the oil and gas giant over four decades, and expanded its business overseas, including operations in Russia, as chief… Continue watching
May 01 Watch Strange Bedfellows Join Fight to Keep California Oyster Farm in Operation Strange Bedfellows Join Fight to Keep California Oyster Farm in Operation… Continue watching
Apr 28 Watch Off-Shore Wind Farm Gets Green Light in Massachusetts The Obama administration has approved plans to build the nation's first offshore wind farm near the coast of Massachusetts' Cape Cod. Gwen Ifill reports about the alternative energy deal, nine years in the making. Continue watching