Tag: Interior Department
The pandemic is battering oil-state economies COVID-19 reverberates across the energy...
Long before New Mexico or Wyoming identified any cases of COVID-19, even before residents began hoarding eggs and sacks of flour, state budgets were...
Trump team releases plan to move BLM headquarters to Grand Junction...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration revealed sweeping plans on Tuesday to dismantle and disperse the Bureau of Land Management, sending its current headquarters staff...
Move BLM headquarters to Colorado? Environmental groups pan proposal
WASHINGTON -- A majority of Colorado’s Congress members support a plan to move the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to...
Judge orders industries to pay royalties for public land extraction Tens...
When energy corporations produce oil, gas or coal on public lands, they make royalty payments to the federal government and the states where production...
Guest Post: Colorado’s David Bernhardt has already shown his true colors...
Former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth penned a head-scratching piece in The Colorado Independent this week. In it, he paints the nomination of fellow Coloradan...
The price of a national park fee hike
When Kitty Benzar bought her house in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest 30 years ago, federal law prohibited land-management agencies from charging people to...
Interior Department’s Climate Science Centers persevere
Will Badlands National Park have enough forage in the future for its bison herds? Can the Wind River Reservation manage tribal water storage to...
Trump budget could impact nearly 14,000 environmental workers in Colorado
The Trump administration released its budget proposal Thursday, after sending clear signals that proposed defense spending will swell and non-defense budgets – particularly of...
First-ever public lands auction for solar power plants bombs
On the home turf of former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the Colorado lease auction was intended as a showcase for the renewable energy push.
DeGette calls federal fracking rule ‘a good first step,’ but warns...
In a concession to the oil and gas industry, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed a rule Friday that wouldn't require the disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids until after drilling is completed.