Trump Administration

NPR’s congressional correspondent came to Wyoming to understand why the Democratic Party’s candidate for U.S. House is running.

National reporting indicates the federal government spent more than $60 million in park entrance fees on work like repairing ornamental fountains and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. At the same time, the Trump administration has canceled or delayed around 1,500 projects in national parks, including 16 in Glacier National Park and 45 in Yellowstone National Park.

A new federal rule could make it harder for farmers to finance projects related to clean energy.

Concerns about costs to ranchers contrast with repopulation efforts.

Both decry Interior Dept. for not consulting electeds before backtracking on a decade-old decision.

If successful, the research may aid in the Trump administration’s aim to increase domestic energy production through biochemical processing of rare earth elements in coal and coal waste.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service started allowing hunting this fall at Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge as part of a Trump administration push to expand hunting and fishing on public lands.

The reorganization would have included moving the agency's headquarters to Salt Lake City and closing nearly two dozen research facilities. Congress may later choose not to extend the restrictions.

The government says the rule is outdated and land protections should be state-based.

Two years after her death, the world-famous grizzly bear’s legacy endures. At the same time, federal protections for the species are on their way out the door.