As Americans struggle to afford groceries, the Trump administration is awarding millions

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3AgUXdvzIBs

 

House passes three-bill spending package with weeks left to avoid a shutdown - POLITICO

The measures would fund the departments of Energy, Commerce, Interior and Justice, as well as water programs, the EPA and federal science initiatives through the end of the current fiscal year..

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/house-passes-three-bill-spending-package-with-weeks-left-to-avoid-a-shutdown-00716935

 

Inside Congress Live

Negotiators have finalized a compromise on the Energy-Water, Commerce-Justice-Science and Interior-Environment spending measures...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/05/congress/3-bill-funding-package-released-following-house-senate-breakthrough-00710477

 

Trump administration halts offshore wind projects from Virginia to New England, in major blow to clean power - POLITICO

The move is yet another escalation from President Donald Trump, who has vowed to throttle wind projects despite his party's worries about electricity affordability…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/interior-pauses-construction-of-all-offshore-wind-projects-citing-national-security-concerns-00702593

Native American universities and colleges brace for crippling Trump cuts

"Our tribal colleges are a deep expression of self-determination and sovereignty. These education systems were created to support and build tribal leadership, to create education systems in which Native students can thrive and can build our economies," Rose said. "Not only are the proposed cuts a direct attack against the trust and treaty responsibility that the federal government has to postsecondary institutions, it inhibits tribes' ability to direct self-determination in our own education systems." She added that her organization and the institutions were connecting with the current administration to underscore just how critical Department of Interior funding is to tribal colleges.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/native-american-colleges-universities-funding-trump

 

Trump administration taking new steps to block wind and solar projects, undisclosed memo says - POLITICO

The directive puts these renewable energy projects under heightened scrutiny at Interior in a move that could slow approvals and construction...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/interior-requires-burgum-sign-off-for-solar-wind-projects-00458999

 

Interior to open millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining - The Washington Post

Trump officials said that they would open up areas of Alaska that Joe Biden had put off limits to oil and gas production, and allow for a gas pipeline to be built across the state...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/20/alaska-drilling-trump-anwr/

Interior Announces Funding for Much-Needed Cleanup of Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells

Orphaned wells have been abandoned by the oil and gas industry, spewing toxic chemicals into the air and water, threatening the health of nearby communities, and emitting large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas more than 80 times as potent at driving the climate crisis as carbon dioxide...

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/interior-announces-funding-for-much-needed-cleanup-of-orphaned-oil-and-gas-wells

Interior Secretary Haaland revokes Trump-era orders on energy | PBS NewsHour

...More than 25% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions originate on public lands, and Interior has "unrivaled opportunities to restore natural carbon sinks, responsibly deploy clean energy and reduce existing emissions," said Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/interior-secretary-haaland-revokes-trump-era-orders-on-energy

Trump seizes on pandemic to speed up opening of public lands to industry

The Trump administration has ratcheted up its efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic to overhaul and overturn Obama-era environmental regulations and increase industry access to public lands. The secretary of the interior, David Bernhardt, has sped efforts to drill, mine and cut timber on fragile western landscapes. Meanwhile, the EPA, headed by the former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, has weakened critical environmental laws and announced in March that it would cease oversight of the nation’s polluters during the Covid-19 crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/30/public-lands-sale-trump-coronavirus-environmental-regulations

Trump official inserted debunked climate change language into scientific documents: report | TheHill

An official at the Interior Department has led an effort to insert misleading language about climate change, including some already debunked claims, into official agency reports, The New York Times reported Monday. ....
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485442-trump-official-inserted-debunked-climate-change-language-into-scientific

Trump official added claim suggesting climate change could be good - Business Insider

A Trump administration official pressured Interior Department scientists to add dubious information to at least nine government reports, according to the New York Times, including a discredited belief that an increase in carbon dioxide, which is amplifying the earth's greenhouse effect and contributing to global warming, was positive.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-official-added-claim-suggesting-climate-change-could-be-good-2020-3

Trump will allow drilling, mining in once-protected monuments - The Washington Post

The Interior Department finalized plans Thursday to permit drilling, mining and grazing in areas of southern Utah that had once been protected as two national monuments, sparking an outcry from tribal groups and conservationists. The decision comes more than two years after Trump dramatically cut the size of the monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, and is likely to intensify a legal fight over the contested sites. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/06/trump-administration-will-allow-drilling-logging-sensitive-federal-lands-utah/

New Emails Reveal that the Trump Administration Manipulated Wildfire Science to Promote Logging – Mother Jones

Political appointees at the Interior Department have sought to play up climate pollution from California wildfires while downplaying emissions from fossil fuels as a way of promoting more logging in the nation’s forests, internal emails obtained by the Guardian reveal. The messaging plan was crafted in support of Donald Trump’s pro-industry arguments for harvesting more timber in California, which he says would thin forests and prevent fires—a point experts refute. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/new-emails-reveal-that-the-trump-administration-manipulated-wildfire-science-to-promote-logging/

Interior Dept. Lawyer Told Congress He Had No Contact With Koch Network. Not True. | HuffPost

The question that Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked Daniel Jorjani, then the nominee to serve as the Interior Department’s top lawyer, in his confirmation hearing last year was direct: “Since you’ve been in the Department of the Interior, have you had any oral or written contact with any of the personnel associated with Freedom Partners or the Koch brothers’ various business or political interests?” ....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daniel-jorjani-interior-lawyer-koch-network_n_5e20e02bc5b6321176107946

With David Bernhardt running Trump’s Interior Dept, former corporate clients are lavishing tens of millions in new lobby spending – Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/with-david-bernhardt-running-trumps-interior-dept-former-corporate-clients-are-lavishing-tens-of-millions-in-new-lobby-spending/

Interior transfers parts of public lands to Army for border wall construction - The Hill

The Interior Department approved a transfer of 560 acres of public land to the U.S. Army to build about 70 miles of border wall, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced Wednesday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462089-interior-transfers-parts-of-public-land-to-army-for-border-wall

GAO: Trump administration violated law to keep parks open during shutdown - POLITICO

GAO said the Interior Department moved money between accounts without authorization from Congress, in violation of federal law.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/gao-trump-parks-shutdown-3795674

Whistleblower says he was pressured by Trump administration to reverse environmental decision - CNN Politics

In the summer of 2017, Arizona developer Mike Ingram's proposed housing and golf course project in the desert was facing a road block because of a decision by the Department of the Interior.....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/politics/interior-department-arizona-development-bernhardt/index.html

The confidential oil plan that could cost Trump reelection - POLITICO

The president's Interior Department is preparing to auction off the state's coastal waters for exploration.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/trump-florida-2020-oil-drilling-1264194