Department of the Interior

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is challenging a federal judge's ruling to throw out the sale of nearly $200 million worth of drilling leases.

Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill told Newsweek Biden's administration had "attacked the entire fossil fuel industry" by trying to prevent the sale. But environmental campaigners want Biden to do more.

Protest was part of "a historic surge of Indigenous resistance" in the nation's capital that started Monday, Indigenous Peoples' Day, outside the White House.

"It's clear Mr. Beaudreau understands America's need for an all-of-the-above energy strategy," said Republican Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso.

"Violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said while announcing the creation of a new unit designed to help solve murders and missing persons cases among American Indians and Alaska Natives.

"I have decided to support this nomination today, to support the first Native American to hold this position," Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said on Thursday.

The New Mexico congresswoman seems likely to become the new head of the Interior Department after Sen. Joe Manchin said he plans to vote for her confirmation.

"Mexico is still sitting on its hands while vaquita after vaquita dies in fishing nets," said Sarah Uhlemann from the Center for Biological Diversity,

Aurelia Skipworth has ties to an organization with a history of railing against the Endangered Species Act.

Furloughs have prevented staff from holding meetings on proposals to undo Obama-era environmental protections.

Trump's secretary of the interior tells congress flights weren't on private jet because plane had propellers.

In 2017, the Bureau of Land Management spent $80.4 million on maintaining wild horses.

The Trump administration will not overlook or silence me.

"It is unequivocally intolerable that the Interior Department could be wasting scarce taxpayer resources that are meant to save lives."

Deepwater Horizon was a product of poor oil industry regulation, and Trump wants even less.

The former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL has faced plenty of questions about his air travel as secretary of the interior.

An Obama-era policy had banned the importation of endangered animals.

Ranchers and tribal leaders alike are taking a stand against Secretary Zinke's rollbacks.

The heads of the Interior and the EPA have defend Trump's plans to cut budgets.

The department manages about a fifth of the country's surface, including national parks, forests and tribal territories, from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico.

The Interior Department oversees territories covering a fifth of the United States' surface from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico, including sensitive wildlife habitats, iconic landscapes, rich deposits of oil, gas and coal and important pasturelands for ranchers.

A congressman and former Navy Seal, Zinke may be Trump's most interesting and unpredictable Cabinet choice.

The federal government is spinning science to justify environmental policy.