REVOLVING DOOR WOES MOUNT AT FEDERAL MINERALS AGENCY
Following Guilty Plea MMS Director Warns Workers to Expect More Shoes to Drop
Department of Interior
News Releases
CHENEY AIDE FINALLY LEAVING INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
Hoffman Tenure Marked by Failed Park Policy Rewrite and Reversals of Scientists
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY…AND HE IS US
Bush Sporting Council Identifies Administration Policies as Highest Hunting Hurdles
SHELL’S REVOLVING DOOR SWINGS U.S. ARCTIC DRILLING PROGRAM
Oil Company Grabs Top Agency Managers to Push What They Used to Regulate
U.S. TRUSTING OIL COMPANIES TO SAFEGUARD ARCTIC WILDLIFE
Industry Permit Plans Not Subjected to Required Peer-Review or Monitoring
BUSH ORDER TO PROMOTE HUNTING MAY SPARK NEW OFF-ROAD CURBS
Rangers Want Agencies to Help Hunting & Fishing by Ending Reckless Off-Roading
U.S. OFFSHORE LEASING PREMISED ON FUTURE OF CHEAP OIL
Planning Assumes $30 a Barrel Oil to Minimize Potential Environmental Impacts
AUDIT FINDS MAJOR HAZARDS IN INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
28% of HQ Workers Cite Health Threat – Modernization “Pause” for Evaluation
CONSERVATION GROUPS CHALLENGE SHRINKING HABITAT FOR RARE PLANT ON ALGODONES DUNES
Contact: Ileene Anderson, Center for Biological Diversity, (323) 654-5943
Karen Schambach, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, (530) 333-1106
Elden Hughes, Sierra Club,…
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT STAGES GRAND CANYON GREEN WASH
Exclusive Footage Offered to NBC “Today” Show to Profile High Flow Experiment
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Tortoise on the Half-Shell — Environmental Malpractice at Mojave National Preserve (November 1999) Details an inside account about how a federal agency legally dedicated to conservation has abdicated its responsibilities to the direct detriment of the natural resources and wildlife in its care. As a consequence of political presure and bureaucratic inertia, legal mandates have been flaunted, critical scientific data ignored and park managers have taken the posture that grazing at Mojave NP is, and will likely remain, unmonitored, unregulated and untouchable. more >> |
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War of Attrition — Sabotage of the Endangered Series Act by the U.S. Department of Interior (December 1997) The U.S. Department of the Interior consistently ignores its own scientists' recommendations to list species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). To stall discussion and shift the burden, the Department of the Interior is waiting for Congressional approval for a reauthorization bill that would greatly weaken the act. more >> |
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2005 Interior Biologists Told To Fundraise |
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Protest of Nomination of Craig Manson, for Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks |