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Utah Representative Mike Noel announces retirement while mired in controversy
Investigations of conflicts-of-interest, self-dealing and accusations of undue influence surround controversial anti-public lands lawmaker Utah Representative Mike Noel announced his retirement from...
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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is putting firefighters at risk for special...
New ad buy highlights her efforts to insert riders that could jeopardize wildfire funding After one of the most expensive and devastating fire seasons in U.S. history, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is...
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Zinke sells out Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument to special...
Lease sale at the minimum bid of $2 per acre for parcel accepted by Bureau of Land Management Despite objections by Montana small business owners and conservation groups, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke...
View ArticleMontanans continue to reject Zinke’s anti-public lands agenda
New polling follows Western Values Project poll last year showing Zinke out of touch with his former constituents Nearly two-thirds of Montanans disapprove of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s efforts to...
View ArticleNewly released Interior financial disclosures continue to show the revolving...
Public financial disclosure reports now available at www.departmentofinfluence.org Newly released financial disclosure forms from the Department of Interior reveal the cozy relationship between...
View ArticleNew report highlights energy lobbyist and special interest influence at Interior
Report shows all the ways Interior has allowed special interests to jeopardize America’s public lands One year ago, President Trump and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke tried to sell the American...
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Secretary Ryan Zinke apologizes to mining CEO who left taxpayers with $100...
Washington Post article details a toxic history of mining CEO who Zinke cozied up to Western Values Project released a video it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request showing Secretary...
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Zinke and crew are coming to get your public lands
The administration’s cloaked attempt to steal your public lands Just a few weeks ago a Department of Interior spokesperson denounced a Montana Farm Bureau official for suggesting that Secretary of the...
View ArticleExposed: Zinke’s shell game to undermine Interior career employees and civil...
Interior Inspector General’s report released on reassignments The Interior’s Inspector General released a report on Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s politically motivated efforts to reassign...
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Interior Inspector General’s report on travel calls into question $12k...
Ethics officials were given incomplete information about Zinke’s trip to visit hockey team owned by a campaign donor The Department of Interior Inspector General (IG) released a report today confirming...
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Deputy Secretary Bernhardt issues agency-wide ethics memo neither he nor...
Ex-lobbyist has no ethics waivers filed for decisions before the Department Deputy Secretary of Interior and ex-lobbyist David Bernhardt issued an agency-wide memo announcing new ethics initiatives for...
View ArticleStatement: Zinke and Bernhardt push federally mandated sage-grouse overhaul...
Released drafts undermine historic deal in favor of special interests The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued draft environmental impact statements (DEIS) to federally mandate an overhaul of...
View ArticleWestern Values Project to Pruitt and EPA: Help us hold Interior accountable
Watchdog group files FOIA request to learn what the EPA knows about Interior Secretary After The Atlantic reported that embattled Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s...
View ArticleCongressional Interior oversight now in the hands of anti-public lands...
Rep. Gianforte’s track record shows his desire to roll back public lands protections and transfer federal lands Anti-public lands Congressman Greg Gianforte (R-MT) has been tapped to lead the House...
View ArticleICYMI: Zinke giving special access and tours to friends
Released documents show how VIPs trumped experts and staff A Washington Post story, based in part on records obtained by Western Values Project, reveals how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his wife...
View Article$85,800 reasons Secretary Zinke is again addressing oil and gas corporations
Zinke raked in big campaign bucks from conference sponsors, executives, parent companies and affiliated PACs As part of a multi-day trip to the Dakotas, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is scheduled to...
View ArticleZinke’s Royalty Policy Committee Meets To Discuss Giving Sweetheart Deals to...
“Public interest” members include land transfer advocates, Koch allies When the Department of the Interior’s Royalty Policy Committee (RPC) meets today in Albuquerque to consider streamlining oil and...
View ArticleICYMI: Zinke’s Cronies Holding Up Conservation Grants
After Zinke hired his football buddy to review any grant application over 50k, grants for conservation are being delayed or limited A Department of the Interior political appointee with no relevant...
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Watchdog to Tipton in New Ads: Oil, Gas & Coal Don’t Mix with Our Parks
New legislation gives away public lands to special interests with zero guarantees for critical maintenance Western Values Project Action announced that digital advertisements will begin running in...
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