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As a former oil and gas lobbyist, Interior Secretary David Berhardt has a long history of proposing regulations that benefit industry at the risk of species extinction.

Nominee for Interior Secretary has longstanding ties with corporate polluters

The future of our national parks, forests, water, and wildlife are in peril

Newly-confirmed Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior joins growing ranks of lobbyists appointed to high-ranking positions in Trump administration

The new acting Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, has been described as a "walking conflict of interest."

Earthjustice joins Alaska’s Tribes and conservation groups in applauding the Department of Interior’s decision – and the thorough study and public process that informed it.

Sign-on letter to the senators from 150 groups expressing strong opposition to the nomination of David Bernhardt for deputy secretary of the Interior.

The Department of the Interior will be swamped with potential conflicts-of-interest if President Trump’s nominee for deputy secretary, David Bernhardt, is confirmed.

Expressing grave concerns over Trump administration's continued flouting of its own ethics guidelines regarding the appointment of lobbyists to serve as political appointees

Thankfully, the arm of the law is longer today than it was a century ago.

Federal proposal would halt wolf recovery, allow more wolf killing

Grupos ambientalistas se dirigen a la corte a raíz del plan de extinción de Trump y Bernhardt

Environmental groups head to court over Trump-Bernhardt’s extinction plan

The Supreme Court upheld protections for a tiny fish, preserving an important tenet of the Endangered Species Act. Now the Trump administration wants to undo that victory.

Little-known officials are remaking policy in ways that threaten environmental health for the benefit of their polluting friends.

Interior Administrator Bernhardt chips away at bedrock conservation law as a hand out to industry

David Henkin, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office, Earthjustice: “Interior under Dave Bernhardt is just gunning to gut the ESA, and the fact that clearly they were proposing things that were a bridge too far even for the Trump NOAA and National Fisheries Service is pretty telling.”

Zinke’s attacks on environment, public lands harmful to U.S., likely to repeat with new Secretary