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The Capitol in Washington, is seen at sunrise, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. On one side of the U.S. Capitol, two senators have steered the debate over government funding mostly clear of partisan fights, clearing a path for bills to pass with bipartisan momentum. Steps away, on the House side of the building, things couldn’t be more different. House Republicans, trying to win support from the far-right wing of the party, have loaded up their government funding packages with funding cuts and conservative policy priorities. Democrats have responded with ire, branding their GOP counterparts as extreme and bigoted and withdrawing support for the legislation.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Expand transparency in the federal government

By Michael McKenna

Construction crews bore beneath U.S. 221 in Roanoke County, Va., June 22, 2018, to make a tunnel through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline will pass under the highway. The state of West Virginia announced Monday, July 24, 2023, that it is appealing a ruling that blocked construction on a segment of the contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP, File)

Biden administration joins GOP on Mountain Valley Pipeline at Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

National monument proposed for southern Nevada tribal lands

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, a core sample drilled from underground rock near Ely, Minn., shows a band of shiny minerals containing copper, nickel and precious metals, center, that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, hopes to mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. Opponents of the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine sued Wednesday, May, 6, 2020, to challenge the federal government's renewal of the company's mineral rights leases, saying the government failed to conduct a full-scale environmental review of the project. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski, File)

Opponents file new challenge to proposed Twin Metals mine

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

Oil and gas lease in Montana region permanently retired

Associated Press

Conservation groups sue to block road in Alaska refuge

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

Wilderness advocates question Idaho Fish and Game airstrip

By Eric Barker - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. Alaska Native and environmental groups sued the Interior Department on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, claiming its agencies have withheld information regarding its preparation for a petroleum lease sale in the refuge. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

Groups sue for information on Arctic refuge lease sale

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

Colorado Editorial Roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 15, 2015, file photo, provided by the United States Geological Survey, a polar bear wearing a GPS video-camera collar lies on a chunk of sea ice in the Beaufort Sea. A tiny Alaska Native village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on diminishing Arctic sea ice. Alaska's Energy Desk reports more than 2,000 people visited the northern Alaska village of Kaktovik on the Beaufort Sea in 2017 to see polar bears in the wild. Jennifer Reed of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge says the village had less than 50 visitors annually before 2011. (Anthony Pagano/USGS via AP)

Trump to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling in 2019

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011,file photo, a prospecting drill rig bores into the bedrock near Ely, Minn., in search of copper, nickel and precious metals that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, hopes to mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. The Trump administration on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, lifted a roadblock to copper-nickel mining in the area saying its review revealed no new scientific information. It says companies may soon be able to sign mineral leases in the area. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski, File)

Feds lift roadblock to copper mining near Boundary Waters

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2013 file photo, male greater sage grouse perform mating rituals for a female grouse, not pictured, on a lake outside Walden, Colo. In an abrupt reversal, the Pentagon now says it supports a Republican proposal in a defense policy bill that would bar the Fish and Wildlife Service from using the Endangered Species Act to protect two chicken-like birds in the western half of the U.S. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

In reversal, Pentagon now says it backs GOP measure on birds

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, a prospecting drill rig bores into the bedrock near Ely, Minn., in search of copper, nickel and precious metals that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, hopes to mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. Environmental groups filed two more lawsuits Monday, June 25, 2018, challenging the Interior Department's decision to reinstate the federal mineral rights leases for the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. The two lawsuits follow a similar case filed Friday by Minnesota businesses that depend on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski, File)

2 more lawsuits challenge proposed mine near wilderness area

Associated Press

Rep. Tom McClintock, California Republican. (Associated Press) **FILE**

House GOP deflates administrative state by moving to allow bikes in wilderness areas

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

18-year-old Nevada battle over US forest road may be over

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

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)

The Latest: Lawmaker welcomes news on monument areas

Associated Press

Interior Department OKs survey for Alaska wilderness road

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

Environmentalists and mountain bikers reach deal

Associated Press