Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which oversees offshore oil leasing, previously estimated that the 2024 rule — the first such overhaul in the past 20 years — would raise ...

“We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump declared at his inauguration on January 20. Echoing the slogan that ...

A Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been given sweeping powers to overhaul the federal department that manages vast tracts of resource-rich public lands, but he ...

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks as his wife Kathryn and President Donald Trump listen, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Washington.

NATIONAL NEWS Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department May 26, 2025, 9:07 PM | Updated: 10:46 pm ...

Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department By MARTHA BELLISLE The Associated Press,Updated May 27, 2025, 1:56 a.m.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum recently directed Tyler Hassen, who lacks Senate confirmation and has no public administration experience, to reorganize the Interior Department, which oversees some ...