The Interior Department is expanding its targets for layoffs to include more than 1,400 “competitive areas” — an increase of hundreds of categories since its first notice this spring — including new units within the Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and Office of the Secretary, according to an internal document. … New additions to Interior’s list include Bureau of Reclamation offices — where the number of targeted units has doubled since the first notice, to more than 180 — for the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin, Great Plains, Mid-Pacific and Pacific Northwest regions. The Fish and Wildlife Service faces potential cuts to jobs in national wildlife refuges across the nation and to posts focused on ecological services and fish and aquatic conservation.

Other natural resource and environmental agency news:

• The New York Times: Controversial Interior Department aide from DOGE to leave agency
• The Guardian (London, U.K.): Two top NOAA officials linked to Trump’s ‘Sharpiegate’ incident put on leave
• The Hill: NOAA places 2 high-ranking officials on leave