Trump’s Interior Department is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them

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By Rebecca Egan McCarthyAug 21, 2025, 4:45 am111 pts
The Department of the Interior, or DOI, has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as “the department of everything else” — public lands, natural resources, wildlife regulations, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs all fall under its auspices. It is now also…

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