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Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt in the library at the Department of the Interior in October 2018 in Washington. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Katherine Frey.

Trump to nominate ex-lobbyist

by Juliet Eilperin The Washington Post, Josh Dawsey The Washington Post, and Darryl Fears The Washington PostFebruary 5, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will nominate David Bernhardt, a veteran lobbyist who has helped orchestrate the administration’s push to expand oil and gas drilling as the Interior Department’s number-two official, to…

A gas transmission pipeline cuts the landscape in St. Bernard Parish, La., on July 21, 2018. Pipelines run from the Gulf to refineries in coastal Louisiana. . MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Bonnie Jo Mount

Little-Known Oil Spill Could Be Worst in History

by Darryl Fears The Washington PostOctober 27, 2018

Scientists Find Weakness in Fungus That Has Decimated Bats

by Darryl Fears The Washington PostJanuary 4, 2018

In this file photo taken Tuesday, March 9, 2010, elephants use their trunks to smell for possible danger in the Tsavo East national park, Kenya. The Trump administration is lifting a federal ban on the importation of body parts from African elephants shot for sport. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

Trump Ends Import Ban on Elephants Parts

by Darryl Fears The Washington Post, and Juliet Eilperin The Washington PostNovember 16, 2017

Gators No Strangers to Disney

by Darryl Fears The Washington PostNovember 3, 2017

Administration Proposes Raising National Park Fees

by Darryl Fears The Washington PostOctober 27, 2017

FILE- In this undated file photo, the Upper Gulch section of the Escalante Canyons within Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument features sheer sandstone walls, broken occasionally by tributary canyons. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he's recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated, including the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)

National Monuments May Shrink

by Juliet Eilperin The Washington Post, and Darryl Fears The Washington PostAugust 24, 2017

Chandler S. Robbins, birdwatching at the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge in Laurel, Md. MUST CREDIT: Handout courtesy of Barbara Dowell, USGS.

An Appreciation: Humble Scientist and ‘National Treasure’ Showed Us How to Understand Birds

by Darryl Fears The Washington PostMarch 26, 2017

a Humpback whale breaches on the way back from a day trip on Anacapa Island, off the coast near Ventura, Calif., in May 2008. The U.S. government on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, removed most of the world's humpback populations from the federal list of endangered species.(Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Back From the Brink

by Darryl Fears The Washington PostMarch 12, 2017

FILE -- In this June 15, 2014 file photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its plan Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, for the recovery of threatened polar bears, acknowledging it will take no direct action for addressing the primary threat, that of greenhouse gases that contribute to the decline of sea ice habitat. Polar bears, the first species to be declared threatened or endangered because of climate change, rely on sea ice for hunting seals and raising their young. (Brian Battaile/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

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Polar Bears Unlikely to Survive Without Greenhouse Gas Reduction

by Darryl Fears The Washington PostJanuary 15, 2017