Inside #Utah’s PR Campaign to Seize Public Lands @jamesctobias.bsky.social reports for Public Domain, published with @highcountrynews.org #news #environment #climatechange EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list www.publicdomain.media/p/utah-publi...

Big Bill Hands Public Land Near Minnesota Wilderness To Foreign Mining Company @jamesctobias.bsky.social reports for Public Domain #news #environment #climatechange EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list www.publicdomain.media/p/boundary-w...

make no mistake, the House budget bill still very much includes a public land giveaway great piece from @jamesctobias.bsky.social today on the provision to hand ~6,000 acres of federal land near Minnesota's iconic Boundary Waters over to a Chilean mining giant www.publicdomain.media/p/boundary-w...

More Lobbyists Turn Up At Trump’s Interior Department @jamesctobias.bsky.social reports for Public Domain #news #environment #climatechange EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list www.publicdomain.media/p/more-lobby...

From @jamesctobias.bsky.social:

Pro-Trump 2020 “Stop the Count” Activist Lands High-Level Job at Interior #news #environment @jamesctobias.bsky.social and ‪‪@chrisdangelo.bsky.social‬ report for Public Domain www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-inte...

Trump Admin Moves to 'Neuter' America's Most Important Wildlife Law #news #environment @jamesctobias.bsky.social reports for Public Domain www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-neut...

The article says that the Washington Post was the first to report on Matt Luby's role at DOI, but Public Domain broke that story first too: www.publicdomain.media/p/vivek-rama...

[email protected] confirms the names of more than 20 Interior Department political appointees -- many of them were first reported by Public Domain in March. www.eenews.net/articles/int...

Trump Administration Moves to 'Neuter' America's Most Important Wildlife Law www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-neut...

Public Domain gets a shout out in The New York Times for breaking the story on the Interior Department’s leaked draft strategic plan. Not bad for a publication that's only a few months old: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...

The total value of Congressman Westerman's energy and mineral holdings was between $14,000 and $210,000. www.publicdomain.media/p/bruce-west...

In a new legal filing, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility asserts that Tyler Hassen — DOGE’s man at the Interior Department — violated the Whistleblower Protection Act and abused his authority. peer.org/new-interior...

RECORDS: Trump's Interior Secretary Has Close Ties To The De-Extinction Company He Promotes www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...

We obtained records that detail Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's close ties to Colossal Biosciences, the company that claims to have revived the extinct dire wolf: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...

Pay attention conservationists

Colossal is “in active discussion regarding a variety of business operations in the state, all of which are sensitive and confidential both to Colossal and the state of ND's economic development efforts.” Killer work by Jimmy, Chris, and Roque here.

We’re two weeks away from an EO mandating the construction of Jurassic Park.

We obtained records that detail Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's close ties to Colossal Biosciences, the company that claims to have revived the extinct dire wolf: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...

new: records Public Domain obtained via a state request help shine light on Interior Secretary's Doug Burgum's enthusiasm for "de-extinction" company Colossal Biosciences www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...

Killer scoop here from @chrisdangelo.bsky.social: Regardless of what you think about de-extinction tech, Doug Burgum’s use of his post as Interior secretary to promote a company with which he had close ties as North Dakota governor raises real questions. www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...

Dino Grandoni out with an exclusive on Trump's emerging plans for national monuments. And Public Domain gets a shout out for our scoop on DOI's draft strategic plan: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

SCOOP: Draft Strategic Plan for Trump's Interior Department Would Boost Extractive Industries, Cut Protections. The latest from Public Domain: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-t...

you'll want to read this one the doc creates a framework for squeezing revenue from the federal estate, opening up new lands to drilling/extraction while reducing land holdings and slashing enviro regs, w/ a top goal to “restore American prosperity” also lists “right-size monuments”

SCOOP: Draft Strategic Plan for Trump's Interior Department Would Boost Extractive Industries, Cut Protections. The latest from Public Domain: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-t...

April 22, 1970: the first Earth Day 20 million people demonstrated across the U.S., about 10% of the country's population at the time and still one of the largest protests in US history The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was founded before the end of the year

for Earth 🌎 Day, smash the subscribe button on Public Domain share us with everyone you know who cares about the future of public lands, waters, wildlife and if you like what you see, considering upgrading to a paid sub so we can keep this thing rolling along publicdomain.media

not exactly "draining the swamp" here www.publicdomain.media/p/public-rec...

President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales. Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68

ProPublica is now confirming our reporting on Bryton Shang's role as a DOGE operative at NOAA. They've also added Katrine Trampe to their DOGE database. We first uncovered Trampe's role at DOGE back in February: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Roque out w/ a big story on Ted Nugent, a prominent skeptic of chronic wasting disease, flouting CWD rules in Texas "I don't know if there are free Texans anymore, but I am," Nugent told Public Domain. "I am the fuckin' Alamo." www.publicdomain.media/p/ted-nugent...

ProPublica is now confirming our reporting on Bryton Shang's role as a DOGE operative at NOAA. They've also added Katrine Trampe to their DOGE database. We first uncovered Trampe's role at DOGE back in February: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Public Domain is now on Instagram, where we'll be sharing our reporting, a bunch of off-hours fun and much more scan the code below or click the link www.instagram.com/publicdomain...

A little scoop from Public Domain: Vivek Ramaswamy's best friend from high school is working for DOGE at the Interior Department. www.publicdomain.media/p/vivek-rama...

Here's the logical extension of the Abundance Agenda's utter contempt for conservation: a defense (!) of car-dependent sprawl (!!!) in which the wildlife habitat being devoured by single-family ranchettes is redefined as "a surplus of open land." For fuck's sake. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...

"though he doesn’t appear to have any special expertise on environmental matters, he does have important connections. His name is Matt Luby and he’s Vivek Ramaswamy’s best friend from high school" new from @jamesctobias.bsky.social www.publicdomain.media/p/vivek-rama...

Probationary employees at the Department of Commerce were fired (again) last night:

Breaking: Kathleen Sgamma, longtime oil and gas industry advocate, withdraws her nomination to be the next director of the Bureau of Land Management. The White House said in a statement it accepts her withdrawal and looks forward to naming another nominee: www.publicdomain.media/p/trumps-blm...

🚨NEWS: Kathleen Sgamma has withdrawn her nomination to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Sen. Mike Lee says to open today's Senate ENR committee

The top leaders at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 are leaving the agency, including the regional director and assistant regional director for ecological services, which oversees the endangered species program. Their resignation/retirement emails below:

Public Domain gets a shout out in this Field and Stream story re: DOGE impacts on USFWS' migratory waterfowl programs: www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/doge...

A DOGE-linked tech executive with ties to the fish farming industry is now a senior adviser at NOAA. Story also features an internal email from NOAA with names of the Trump political team embedded at the agency: www.publicdomain.media/p/doge-linke...

Mother Jones republished our Public Domain piece on Trump BLM nominee Kathleen Sgamma www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thanks to ace #journalist @jamesctobias.bsky.social for shining a light on this www.publicdomain.media/p/doge-linke...

A DOGE-linked tech executive with ties to the fish farming industry is now a senior adviser at NOAA. Story also features an internal email from NOAA with names of the Trump political team embedded at the agency: www.publicdomain.media/p/doge-linke...

tech exec with ties to the fish farming industry is now embedded as DOGE operative at NOAA, the nation's premier fisheries agency new from @jamesctobias.bsky.social www.publicdomain.media/p/doge-linke...

🧵3/ At BLM, Sgamma would oversee 246 million acres of public land. She previously argued the West suffers from "too much federal ownership," raising alarm she'll seek large-scale privatization benefiting oil & gas firms. Via @jamesctobias.bsky.social & @chrisdangelo.bsky.social

Public Domain is very close to hitting 1,000 subscribers help us get there by signing up, sharing with friends and family your support means the world to us 💙 www.publicdomain.media