Government Executives' Katherine McIntire Peters picks up on the fact that the same day Barack Obama pledged to cap carbon emissions, Interior Sec. Ken Salazar announced 38 sites where the federal government will lease land for oil and natural gas ...

Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times reports:

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday scrapped a plan, authorized in the last days of the Bush administration, to nearly quadruple the allowable logging on federal lands in western Oregon -- including many prized old-growth stands -- and open up protected northern ...

Central New Mexico is a great place for large solar and wind arrays -- the one being proposed could take the place of several coal-fired power plants -- but power lines coming out of the region would cross territories where sandhill cranes and other wildlife live. Juliet Eilperin and ...

The Bureau of Land Management discovered serious structural problems in the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah in 2004, three years before its collapse killed six miners and three experts sent in to rescue them, the Associated Press reports.  BLM, which is part of the Interior Department, never communicated ...