Lobbyist-Turned-Interior-Deputy David Bernhardt’s Dirty Record After One Year
From Drilling in the Arctic to Major California Water Projects, Former Clients are Getting Results Since Ex-Lobbyist Was Confirmed Western Values Project (WVP) released a report documenting all of...
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Royalty Policy Committee Holds Fourth Public Meeting to Help Industry,...
Interior Has Been Sued for Stacking the Deck with Too Many Industry Representatives, New RPC Chairman Just Another Major Oil and Gas Ally The Interior Department’s Royalty Policy Committee (RPC) will...
View ArticleICYMI: Bernhardt Cancels Speech at Eleventh Hour for Unknown Ethics Reasons
Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt, who was supposed to give the keynote speech at the Colorado River District’s forum tomorrow, had to cancel at the eleventh hour due to ethics concerns raised...
View ArticleInterior Revises Methane Waste Rule, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions
Today, Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department essentially repealed the commonsense Methane Waste Prevention Rule, a rule that required oil and gas companies to limit the leaking or flaring of...
View ArticleNPS Nominee Has Troubling History of Keeping Public in the Dark, Giving...
Today, the Western Values Project released new research on Raymond “David” Vela, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Park Service (NPS), onto the Department of Influence website. If...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Calls on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to Protect...
In a ruling announced today, a judge sided with a Louisiana-based corporation, Solenex LLC, allowing them to drill on an oil and gas lease granted in the 1980s. The lease is located within the...
View ArticleBeloved Public Lands and Parks Conservation Program Expires; Faux...
Where Is Secretary Zinke Now that the Land and Water Conservation Fund Needs Him? The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) which has successfully funded over 41,000 conservation and lands projects...
View ArticleICYMI: Watchdog Writes to Defense Department for Information on Zinke’s...
Letter to Defense Secretary and Navy Secretary Seek Clarification on U.S. Policy; Interior Secretary’s Role After Comments on Russia Western Values Project sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense and...
View ArticleWestern Values Project and American Oversight Sue Interior for Records...
Western Values Project (WVP), a Montana-based conservation group, represented by watchdog American Oversight, today filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior (DOI) to investigate whether...
View ArticleZinke Taps Land Transfer Bundy-Backer for Interior Deputy Solicitor Post
On late Friday afternoon, multiple media outlets reported that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had tapped controversial land seizure lawyer Karen Budd-Falen to be Deputy Solicitor for Wildlife and Parks,...
View ArticleSecrecy Since Day One: New Exposé Reveals Ryan Zinke’s Secret Calendar
Over the weekend a CNN story, based in part on Western Values Project analysis of public records, revealed that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke repeatedly kept meetings off of his official calendar in...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Statement on Suspect Replacement of Interior Inspector...
Earlier today, The Hill reported that Interior’s Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall would be replaced by Suzanne Israel Tufts, a Trump appointee from the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
View ArticleStatement from Western Values Project on Bizarre Inspector General Mix-Up
After reports earlier this week that that the Interior Department’s Acting Inspector General would be replaced with a political appointee from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the...
View ArticleFormer Monsanto Executive Tapped for Top Wildlife Manager Position at Interior
Last night, The Hill reported that former Monsanto executive Aurelia Skipwith would be nominated to lead the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). As FWS Director, she would be...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Statement on Zinke Probe Referred to DOJ
The Department of Interior’s Office of Inspector General has referred an investigation into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Department of Justice (DOJ), CNN reports. Fifteen federal investigations...
View ArticleWestern Values Project Calls for Secretary Zinke’s Resignation
After The Hill broke the news that the Interior Department’s internal watchdog referred its investigation of Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Department of Justice just days before the attempted, and...
View ArticlePublic Lands Win In Election, Oversight Opportunity Created with New Congress
Last night, American voters made their voices heard. Protecting access to public lands and natural places were key issues in this election, as anti-public lands candidates found out all too well when...
View ArticleWVP Endorses Zinke for Fox News Contract
Politico is reporting that while Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke prepares to head out of his $139,000 office doors, he’s exploring a role with Fox News. While Western Values Project has never taken a...
View ArticleWVP Launches Ad Campaign in Montana Calling on Ryan Zinke to Resign
Today, Montana-based conservation watchdog group Western Values Project announced they will run a nearly $30,000 ad campaign in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s home state calling on Zinke to resign....
View ArticleSenate Committee Holds Hearing on NPS Director Nominee
Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing to consider Raymond “David” Vela for the Director of the National Park Service (NPS). If confirmed, he will oversee the...
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