Lawsuit takes aim at Zinke’s attempts to politicize Interior staffing decisions
Documents show Zinke filled employee board with political cronies Following reports that Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke filled an employee board entirely with political appointees, the...
View ArticleMore sweetheart deals: Zinke stacks Royalty Policy Committee with special...
Learn more about the committee members at www.departmentofinfluence.org The first meeting of Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s handpicked Royalty Policy Committee will be held tomorrow. The...
View ArticleZinke orders Bureau of Land Management to suspend methane waste prevention rule
Suspension of rule will carelessly waste energy and cost taxpayers millions In another giveaway to oil and gas corporations, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and the Bureau of the Land Management...
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Zinke again sides with Washington lobbyists over Western states
Today, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke finally announced his intent to throw out carefully developed, bipartisan Western state sage grouse management plans. Based on the recommendations of Zinke’s...
View ArticleIs the Deputy Secretary at Interior doing favors for former clients?
BLM reverses ruling to clear major hurdle for Cadiz water project Last Friday, the Bureau of the Land Management announced a change of administrative opinion that could make millions for a recent...
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Utah official uses water conservancy funds to create propaganda-filled...
Leaked video shows taxpayer-funded documentary features extreme and ethically challenged voices Western Values Project released a leaked copy of a documentary created with taxpayer funds by Mike Noel,...
View ArticleLand seizure advocates join Zinke’s calls to gut monuments
Fringes of the conservative movement demand end to landscape-level monuments, after Zinke issued recommendation to shrink them Leading proponents of the movement to transfer control over national...
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Complaint filed on oil and gas lobbyists’ role in Zinke’s sage-grouse changes
Interior recommendations included 13 of 15 requests from oil and gas industry After over two months of failing to fulfill Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Western Values Project (WVP) was...
View ArticleNew analysis by Western Values Project highlights who benefits from Zinke’s...
Oil and gas leaseholders in sagebrush habitat have ties to Zinke, political staff and lobby group Under Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s direction, the Bureau of the Land Management (BLM)...
View ArticleZinke releases “energy burdens” report full of special interests giveaways
Report shills for the oil and gas industry at the expense of public lands Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke finally made his ‘energy burdens’ report available to the public. The report, required by...
View Article50 trillion reasons Kathleen Hartnett White is disastrous for public lands
The extreme views of Trump’s nominee to head Council on Environmental Quality The head of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is a position unknown to many Americans that has an enormously...
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New document shows Zinke side-stepped Nevada governor on sage grouse review
Secretary met with attorney general before governor With public meetings on the proposed sage grouse management plans being conducted across Nevada this week, an internal document released by the...
View ArticleHartnett White, Wheeler latest Trump nominees with extreme anti-public lands...
Former lobbyists poised to bring history of false claims and questionable dealings to administration The United States Senate will soon consider Trump’s nominee to head the Council on Environmental...
View ArticleDurbin isn’t the only one being stiffed by Interior
Western Values Project in ongoing lawsuit seeking documents on Zinke’s monument review Today, Senator Dick Durbin announced he is placing a hold on several nominees to serve in the Interior...
View ArticleZinke continues to listen to special interests, ignore everyone else
Senators demand answers about monuments review, veterans call on Zinke to preserve national monuments, special interests continue to call the shots Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is antsy to get...
View ArticleZinke’s bench of lobbyists and special interests continues to grow
Check out new profiles of political appointees at Interior https://departmentofinfluence.org/ Today, Western Values Project releases nine new profiles to the Department of Influence, tracking the...
View Article“Update” on sham monuments review to come from Senator Hatch at Utah...
Senator’s staff to provide update on “potential federal actions that would affect Utah’s national monuments” Today, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch’s office will update the Utah Commission for the Stewardship...
View ArticleNew acting BLM chief has ties to land seizure initiative
Former senior aide to top Utah politician keeping the chair warm for Bundy lawyer Karen Budd-Falen Today, the Interior Department announced the appointment of Brian Steed to serve as the acting...
View ArticleLikely nominee for BLM director brings land seizure road show to Montana
Montana presentation will advocate abdicating control over lands that belong to all Americans Tomorrow, leading land transfer advocate, ‘darling of the original Sagebrush Rebellion’ and Secretary of...
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Running out of lobbyists to hire, Zinke turns to land transfer zealots for...
This week has seen leaders in the land seizure movement gaining traction at the Interior Department. Brian Steed, the former Chief of Staff to leading land seizure advocate Utah Congressman Chris...
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