Deb Haaland

The U.S. is adding $103 million this year for wildfire risk reduction and burned-area rehabilitation throughout the country as well as establishing an interagency wildland firefighter health and well-being program, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Friday. Haaland made the announcement following a briefing on this year’s wildfire season at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, which coordinates the...

A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 500 student deaths at the institutions so far. But officials expect that figure to grow exponentially as research continues. The Interior Department report released Wednesday expands to more than 400 the number of schools...

The Biden administration will use $1.7 billion from the recently enacted federal infrastructure bill to fund 16 tribal water rights settlements

The Biden administration says it will hold its first offshore wind auction next month

It can feel like 2021 only brought bad news with extreme weather, an ongoing pandemic and many people experiencing financial struggles. Severe storms, largely influenced by climate change, caused roughly $120 billion in damage globally. January 2021 brought destructive floods to California. A couple of weeks later, a historic winter storm shut down much of the Texas power grid, costing…

The news about climate change wasn’t ALL bad in 2021. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shares eight good things that happened for the environment this year, including new standards for fuel economy, a pledge to end deforestation and a movement encouraging major investors to divest from fossil fuel companies.

The Biden administration has recommended an overhaul of the nation’s oil and gas leasing program to focus on areas that are most suitable for energy development and raise costs for energy companies to drill on public lands and water

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Friday the federal government will establish a process to review and replace racially derogatory terms used in place names. 

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says extensive news media coverage of the death of Gabby Petito should be a reminder of hundreds of Native American girls and women who are missing or murdered in the United States.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to the nation’s capital after two years in Colorado.