The House Committee on Natural Resources and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ranking members are focused on the ...

Democratic lawmakers on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are asking the Department of the Interior’s independent ...

House Democrats are accusing a Department of the Interior official of ethics violations, conflicts of interest and ...

RENO — Inside Dean Barlese’s home on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reservation is a whiteboard with the numbers of tribal members who would drop everything to come to the beloved elder’s aid if needed ...

Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada — a project that the Trump administration worked to ...

Publicly released financial disclosures show that Karen Budd-Falen failed to report financial ties to large BLM project.

Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show. By Lisa Friedman A ...

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the controversial Nevada lithium project. Karen Budd-Falen, senior partner at Budd-Falen Law Offices ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun sets over a protest camp at the site of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass, Nev., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. | ...