#interior-department

#interior-department

In August 2022, Karen Budd-Falen, a private attorney at the time who now serves as the third highest-ranking official at the Interior Department, sent a 53-page appeal challenging a Bureau of Land Management decision to allow a conservation nonprofit to continue grazing bison on public land in central Montana while expanding its access to new areas.

My judgement and experience tell me it is better for Montana and America to have full-time representation in Congress than run the risk of uncertain absence and missed votes.

On July 17, the Interior Department announced that all wind and solar projects would have to undergo "elevated review" from department Secretary Doug Burgum's office. On July 29, Burgum ordered an end to "preferential treatment" for "unreliable, foreign controlled energy sources," specifically wind and solar. The next day, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which sits within the Interior Department, rescinded all designated Wind Energy Areas along the continental shelf.