U.S. Department of the Interior

Built World

Seeking to re-examine its 2023 approval of Revolution Wind

Revolution Wind's 65 turbines began generating at full capacity in October, and Ørsted declared the project commercially operational on November 5. It is the third utility-scale offshore wind farm in the United States; Vineyard Wind, off Massachusetts, became the second when it reached full operation on October 29. The 704-megawatt project survived two federal stop-work orders, both struck down in court.

Updated 4 days ago

Rule Changes

Responsible for the management plan and preservation review

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on November 5, 2026, making the Oval Office, the Outer Oval Office and the Cabinet Room a national monument. The designation relies on the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that lets presidents protect federal land and structures by proclamation, without a vote in Congress.

Updated 5 days ago

Rule Changes

Appealing the April injunction; the Justice Department is also asking courts to reopen four offshore wind permits.

The Pentagon has started clearing onshore wind projects again after a federal judge ordered it to resume reviews. In October it advanced projects in Maine and South Dakota, but Democrats say hundreds more are still waiting.

Updated Oct 29

Rule Changes

Oversees the National Park Service

Sport hunters can again lure bears to bait piles on Alaska's national preserves and shoot them at close range. The National Park Service rule, published in the Federal Register on Oct. 19, replaces a 2024 ban and takes effect Nov. 18.

Updated Oct 26

Rule Changes

Determined the damage was from botched installation

A Washington, D.C., judge has permanently barred federal prosecutors from refiling charges against David Hearn, the former Olympic canoeist accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Todd Edelman's October 1 ruling cited President Trump's public pressure on prosecutors as a reason the case cannot be reopened.

Updated Oct 20

Rule Changes

As of September 2026: Defending the monument shrink

Patagonia, five tribal nations, and environmental groups sued September 2 to block Trump's second shrink of Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments. The case is before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. She is weighing whether to reopen a 2017 lawsuit that stalled after Biden restored the monuments.

Updated Sep 6

Rule Changes

As of August 2026: Wrote and signed the final plan

Farmers and cities across the Southwest just learned how much less river water they will get. On August 22, the US Department of the Interior signed rules cutting Arizona, California and Nevada by about 1.25 million acre-feet a year, roughly 21% of their Colorado River supply. Arizona takes the deepest cut.

Updated Aug 23

Rule Changes

As of May 2026: Directed and defended the deregulatory reversal and Alaska leasing acceleration

BLM's rollback of the 2024 NPR-A protections isn't new news—but today is when it becomes real. As of December 17, 2025, the rescission is officially in effect, wiping out the Biden-era rule that tried to hardwire stronger guardrails into how the Western Arctic gets developed.

Updated May 15

Force in Play

As of May 2026: Transferring public lands for use as National Defense Areas

Donald Trump has quietly turned long stretches of the southern border into de facto military bases. Under a new system of National Defense Areas, soldiers can stop migrants, hold them, and help prosecutors charge them as trespassers on military land.

Updated May 11