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Watchdog to Gianforte in New Ads: Oil, Gas & Coal Don’t Mix with Our Parks
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 Montana,...
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ICYMI: Secretary Zinke’s Foundation Gives Halliburton-Backed Developer Prime...
Earlier today, Politico reported that the Great Northern Veterans Peace Park Foundation, created by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and currently headed by his wife, Lola, is providing crucial...
View ArticleZinke Socialized with Private Developers On the Taxpayer Dime While His Wife...
The ranking member Rep. Raul Grijalva of the House Natural Resources Committee called on Interior’s Office of Inspector General to investigate Secretary Ryan Zinke after released documents revealed...
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Secretary Zinke in Billings to Discuss Money Feds Owe Local Governments
Today, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is returning to the Treasure State to discuss Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) with local officials in Billings. The meeting will be held from 8:00 am until...
View ArticleZinke’s Pending 14th Investigation May Be His Last
Statement by Western Values Project Deputy Director Jayson O’Neill on the announcement of an Inspector General’s review of a possible investigation into scandal-plagued Secretary Zinke using his...
View ArticleSenator Gardner Tries to Dupe Coloradans in Classic D.C. Double-Cross on LWCF
New Ad Highlights Gardner’s Hypocrisy on Critical Public Access Fund Western Values Project will run a newspaper ad in the Daily Sentinel calling out Senator Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) hypocrisy in voting...
View ArticleSenator Daines Tries to Dupe Montanans in Classic D.C. Double-Cross on LWCF
New Ad Highlights Daines’ Hypocrisy on Critical Public Access Fund Western Values Project will run a newspaper ad in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle calling out Senator Steve Daines’ (R-MT) hypocrisy in...
View ArticleSide-By-Side: Guide to Pruitt’s and Zinke’s Competing Scandals
Following disgraced EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation, Western Values Project – a Whitefish-based public lands watchdog group – released a side-by-side analysis of Pruitt’s and Interior...
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ICYMI: With Pruitt Out, Uranium Company Lobbyist Takes the Wheel At EPA
A breaking CNN story, based in part on Western Values Project’s original research, reveals that with Scott Pruitt’s resignation, former D.C. lobbyist Andrew Wheeler’s promotion to acting administrator...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Statement on President Trump’s Pardoning the Hammonds...
This morning, President Donald Trump pardoned Dwight and Steven Hammond, two ranchers whose arson convictions inspired the armed takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016. The...
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Military, Conservation Both Under Attack with Dangerous Sage Grouse Poison Pill
In the coming weeks, Congress could be forced to make a dangerous choice on whether or not to pit national defense against the conservation of iconic western lands and wildlife. For the fourth year in...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Statement on Interior Opening Formal Investigation...
The Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General will be opening a formal investigation to see if Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke committed any wrongdoing by chasing a sweetheart real estate...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Wins Freedom of Information Act Suit for National...
After Western Values Project filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for failing to respond to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking information on efforts to change DOJ...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Statement on Newly Exposed Interior Bias In Monuments...
In a breaking news story, the Washington Post is reporting that after the Interior Department accidentally released thousands of pages in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that...
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Western Values Project Statement on Defeat of Dangerous Sage Grouse Poison Pill
Earlier this week, the dangerous sage grouse rider was cut out of the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amendment, sponsored by Congressman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), would...
View ArticleWestern Values Project, Democracy Forward Demand Records Exposing Whether DOI...
Today, on behalf of the Western Values Project, Democracy Forward filed suit against the Trump administration for failing to release documents detailing whether Deputy Secretary of the Interior David...
View ArticleScandals swirl around Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke as he tours Colorado
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has been traveling the great state of Colorado this week and on Friday, August 10, he will deliver an address at the Koch-backed Steamboat Institute’s 10th Annual...
View ArticleScandal-Plagued Secretary Zinke Headline Speaker at Koch-backed Event
Today, as scandals and ethics investigations swirl around him, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will deliver the keynote address at the Koch-funded Steamboat Institute’s 10th Annual Freedom Conference...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Statement on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante...
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management just released draft resource management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, which includes a report that...
View ArticleKey Interior Staff Leaving Zinking Ship
Today, E&E News reported that Downey Magallanes, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s deputy chief of staff for policy, is leaving Interior to work in the private sector. News of her departure comes...
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