Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will be leaving his position on the Trump cabinet by the end of the year, President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning. ” Secretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years. Ryan has accomplished […]
Cybersecurity Fiasco: Interior Department Computers Trying to Talk to Russia…
Three years after Chinese hackers stole security clearance files and other sensitive personal information of some 22 million U.S. federal employees, cyber-defenses at the Department of Interior, which hosted White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM) servers targeted in the theft, were still unable to detect “some of the most basic threats” inside Interior’s computer […]
Trump’s DOI Releases the Results of the Largest Oil Lease Sale In U.S. History…
The Department of the Interior released the results of the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history Wednesday, reflecting the state of industry interest in offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The results were similar to what experts expected, bringing in $124.7 million in high bids, slightly higher than the $121 million […]
National Monuments’ Land to Be Scaled Back…
The US Interior Department plans to scale back or eliminate national monuments, despite an outpouring of public condemnation for the policy set forth by an executive order by President Donald Trump. US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke delivered the recommendations to the president’s desk on Thursday, following a 120-day study…
Lawmaker Demands Trump Admin Hand Over Unredacted Report On Phishing Email Attacks…
A House committee asked the Interior Department Thursday to hand over an unredacted copy of a newly-released report detailing how more than 100 employees were “compromised” in a phishing email attack. Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter to Interior Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall asking […]
Trump Opens ‘All Available’ Gulf Of Mexico Waters To Oil Drilling…
The Department of the Interior will include “all available” federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico that have not already been leased out for offshore oil drilling. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Monday 73 million acres off the coast of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida would be offered at a lease sale in August […]
Feds Caught Illegally Using Prisoners To Train Wild Horses…
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is improperly paying some prisons to train and hold wild horses that were removed from federal lands, according to an internal Department of the Interior (DOI) investigation…
SURRENDER: DOJ, DOI and U.S. Army Joint Statement on Shutting Down ND Pipeline Construction…
We appreciate the District Court’s opinion on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act. However, important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe…