Valerie Volcovici

Daines backs efforts to repeal 2015 Clean Water Act

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers released a proposal this week to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule, the latest move by the Trump administration to unwind environmental regulations put in place under former President Barack Obama.

Zinke says public lands can make U.S. ‘dominant’ oil power

Boosting drilling and mining on America's protected federal lands can help the United States become not just independent, but "dominant" as a global energy force, according to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose agency manages about one-fifth of U.S. territory.

Zinke to make proposal on monument in test for protected land

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is due to make a recommendation to the White House on whether to rescind or resize Utah's Bears Ears monument, setting the tone for a broader study of which lands protected by past presidents should be reopened to development.