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Interior Department reveals plans to lay off more than 2,000 employees The planned RIFs are barred for a court order for now. They have been planned for months, but were first revealed Monday as part of a union lawsuit. Jared Serbu@jserbuWFED October 20, 2025 7:26 pm 3 min read The Interior Department plans to eliminate more than 2,000 positions across …

See where the Interior is planning to lay off 2,000 employees  Government Executive Here’s where the Interior Dept. plans to cut more than 2,000 jobs  Axios Interior divulges more details on layoff plans  E&E News by POLITICO Federal layoffs would gut Great Lakes fisheries research center  The Detroit News Interior Department Puts Plans to Cut 2,000 Workers On Ice  Barron’s Source link

The Department of Interior is preparing mass layoffs beginning Monday despite a federal judge’s order prohibiting firings due to the shutdown, a federal employee union said Thursday. The American Federation of Government Employees said in a court filing that its attorneys learned through “multiple credible sources” that the Department of the Interior is preparing to move forward with a widespread …

Interior cancels largest solar project in North America  Politico Trump Moves to Cancel Esmeralda 7, a Giant Solar Project  The New York Times Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy  The Guardian Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says  Heatmap News Huge desert solar project canceled, BLM says  E&E News by POLITICO Source link

WASHINGTON — The moon is sometimes called “two-faced” because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper than that, as shown by an analysis of rock and soil retrieved in 2024 by China’s Chang’e-6 robotic lunar spacecraft. Scientists said the chemical makeup of …

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced the opening of 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal leasing, tripling the benchmarks set by the landmark One Big Beautiful Bill Act and delivering on President Donald J. Trump’s directive to restore American Energy Dominance. This decisive action will help strengthen our domestic supply chains and secure reliable energy.  …

The Detroit Lions dismantled the Chicago Bears in Week 2, 52-12, leveling their season record to 1-1. Let’s take a closer look at the Lions’ snap counts to see what we can divulge from their personnel usage that may have led to this rapid return to success. Jared Goff: 56 snaps (95%) Kyle Allen: 3 (5%) Goff was masterful in …

The Dallas Cowboys have shored up a key piece of their offensive line for the long term. Per NFL Network, the Cowboys and Pro Bowl left guard Tyler Smith have agreed to a four-year, $96 million extension to his rookie contract. The contract comes with $81.2 million in guaranteed money and makes Smith the highest-paid interior offensive lineman in the …

Quakes on Mars Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior  The New York Times NASA Marsquake Data Reveals Lumpy Nature of Red Planet’s Interior  NASA (.gov) What are the mysterious blobs on Mars? Astronomers may have figured it out  ABC News Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars  Nature Huge chunks of ancient cosmic objects may be stuck inside Mars  Space Source …

With one riddle solved, the team focused on another: how those lumps got there. Turning back the clock, they concluded that the lumps likely arrived as giant asteroids or other rocky material that struck Mars during the early solar system, generating those oceans of magma as they drove deep into the mantle, bringing with them fragments of crust and mantle. …