SETTLEMENT IN WHISTLEBLOWER CASE OF INTERIOR LAWYER
Robert McCarthy Testified Against Government in Tribal Trust Accounts Trial
Department of Interior
News Releases
BOWHEAD WHALE IMPERILED BY ARCTIC DRILLING PLANS
Scientific Warnings on Oil Spills and Seismic Noise Disregarded to Speed Lease Sales
ARCTIC OCEAN OIL REVIEWS SOFT-PEDALED EXXON VALDEZ
Oil Spill Dangers to Wildlife Minimized to Keep Lease Sales on Schedule
LEAKED E-MAILS MAY SINK ARCTIC OFFSHORE LEASE SALES
Officials Scramble to Suppress Scientific Dissent over Bush Arctic Oil Initiative
INVASIVE SPECIES THREAT FROM ARCTIC OFFSHORE DRILLING IGNORED
Interior Purged Scientific Concerns about Introduction of Exotics in Arctic Waters
INTERIOR STIFLES POLAR BEAR PROTECTIONS FROM ARCTIC DRILLING
Listing Delay Blocks Safeguards Urged by Scientists Contrary to Agency Testimony
INTERIOR WITHHOLDING KEY DOCUMENTS ON ARCTIC DRILLING
Shell Plans for LNG and Tanker Traffic in Chukchi Sea Barred from Lease Review
FEDERAL WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT RECORDS SOUGHT IN LAWSUIT
Corruption in U.S. Fish & Wildlife Headquarters Targeted in Test of New FOIA Law
OUTSOURCING OF FEDERAL NATURAL RESOURCE JOBS BLOCKED
Congress Kills Key Bush Management Agenda Plank for Park and Forest Services
INTERIOR ETHICS INITIATIVE EVAPORATES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Vaunted Effort Scaled Back and Unimplemented While Scientific Fraud Ignored
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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 |