The U.S. Department of the Interior was founded by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. A wide variety of functions were assigned to the "Home Department" as it was called at the time, including administration of the General Land Office...

Established in 1849, the U.S. Department of the Interior has primary management and conservation responsibility for all federal lands and minerals, national parks, water resources, and wildlife refuges. Its secretary reports directly to the president,...

B The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally owned land. These responsibilities are different from other countries' Interior Departments or...

Byline: Robin Ingenthron Soon, Lynn Scarlett, former executive of the Reason Foundation, will be acting secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, replacing Gale Norton. Scarlett wrote reports critical of state recycling goals in the 1990s, and was a main source...

The U.S. Congress is considering moving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Department of Commerce to the Department of the Interior. In May 2004, Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.) introduced a bill, the Weather and Oceans Resources Realignment Act, which seeks...