System-Wide Files
Most of this registry is organized by place. These 3 files are not — they document federal decisions that have no single location because they apply to all of them at once: what the agencies are funded to do, which minerals get priority, and what counts as an adequate environmental review.
They are kept here rather than in the main registry for a specific reason. The registry's map pins every case file to coordinates, and a pin is a factual claim about where something is happening. Pinning "nationwide coal leasing" to a point in Wyoming, or an executive order to Washington, would assert a location the file itself disclaims. So these files carry the same schema, the same sourcing standard, and the same corrections log as the 11 place files — they simply have no coordinates to be honest about.
Read them alongside the place files, not instead of them. A budget line becomes legible when you can see which specific archaeological survey went undone; an executive order becomes legible when you can see which specific acreage opened under it. The Patterns page is where those connections are indexed.
Artificial Intelligence as a Driver of Public-Lands Threats
Federal orders tie AI data-center power demand to coal leasing, critical minerals, and compressed environmental review.
**Angle 1 — Energy and data centers.** The Department of Energy's 2024 U.S.
Federal Coal Lands — Nationwide Leasing Expansion
Interior opened 13.1 million acres to coal leasing and cut the royalty rate to 7% under an order that ties coal to AI data-center demand.
**The order.** Executive Order 14261, "Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241," was signed April 8, 2025 and published in the Federal Register on April 14, 2025 (doc.
National Park Service — Nationwide Budget & Staffing Cuts
NPS has lost 24% of its permanent staff since January 2025; a further $736M operations cut is proposed for FY27.
Executive Order 14210 (the DOGE workforce-optimization order, signed February 2025) drove a 16% drop in NPS employee counts during FY2025 alone, per Office of Personnel Management data cited in the CRS report.
Following these files
System-wide files change on the federal calendar rather than the news cycle — a budget resolution, a comment deadline, an effective date 60 days after a signature. Every dated development across the registry is published to the RSS feed, and the operative future dates are collected under Operative dates fall after the announcement.