Bureau of Land Management

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has released its Final Report on a review of agency actions that are potentially burdensome to domestic energy production, in accordance with an executive order issued from President Donald Trump in March.

The Senate just failed to roll back an Obama-era regulation that will discourage energy production, cost millions of dollars and kill thousands of American jobs.

Too many oil, gas, coal, rare earth and other vital resources are still off limits.

Amidst the angst-ridden media attention paid to President Donald Trump’s efforts, the Interior Department (DOI) under new Secretary Ryan Zinke has quietly gone about implementing Trump’s vision.

Federal government overseers threaten property and livelihoods of hardworking westerners.

(Part 2) In this two-part edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Jessica Sena and research fellow Isaac Orr give the listeners an update on the state of fracking at the federal level, and how these rules are affect oil and natural gas production.

Returning lands owned by the national government to the states is emerging as a public policy issue. The battle line for this issue has been drawn in the West. Nearly…

You have to be extremely stupid to send a couple of hundred armed government agents to confiscate some bullheaded rancher’s cattle without contemplating how the rest of the nation will interpret your actions.

What was obvious to voters who rejected Barack Obama’s run for the presidency the first and second time was the fact that he lacked any record of competency to be President. The rest voted for him because they wanted to say they helped elect the first black President of the United States and because they believed what this pathological liar said then and since.

If Obama truly wanted to “create jobs and opportunities for the middle class,” he could tell the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to work with—instead of against—those ready to risk their capital in the development of our natural resources and create jobs.

No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. Polls repeatedly show most Americans believe that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority,…