MEMO: Six Questions for Senator Cory Gardner During Congressional Recess
With Senator Cory Gardner scheduled to be back in Colorado until after Labor Day for congressional recess, Western Values Project – a Montana-based public lands watchdog nonprofit – seeks answers from...
View ArticleSen. Daines is California Dreaming With Anti-Public Lands Interior Official...
Daines Meeting with Land Transfer Advocates Instead of Montana Constituents Tomorrow, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) will attend a meeting of the Western Caucus, a coalition of officials that places...
View ArticleBernhardt Upends Interior’s Ethics Department, Leaving It To Political...
Order Overhauling Ethics Department Continues Pattern of Skirting Transparency and Accountability In a move that will further limit transparency and oversight of the Interior Department’s repeated...
View ArticleGardner Takes Oil and Gas Money While Public Lands Funding Flatlines
Colorado Senator Swims in Campaign Cash While Critical Land and Water Conservation Fund Remains Empty Senator Cory Gardner has raked in millions in campaign donations from high-profile special...
View ArticleNew Billboard Ad Pressures Sen. McSally to Fully Fund Popular Conservation Fund
Today, Montana-based conservation watchdog group Western Values Project Action (WVP) placed a mobile billboard advertisement in Arizona, near the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park as well as...
View ArticleNew Billboard Ad Pressures Sen. Gardner to Fully Fund Popular Conservation Fund
Today, Montana-based conservation watchdog group Western Values Project Action (WVP) placed a billboard advertisement in Colorado, outside Rocky Mountain National Park, calling on Senator Gardner...
View ArticleNew Billboard Ad Pressures Sen. Daines to Fully Fund Popular Conservation Fund
Today, Montana-based conservation watchdog group Western Values Project Action (WVP) placed a billboard advertisement in Montana, outside of Yellowstone National Park, calling on Senator Daines (R-MT)...
View ArticleNew Inspector General to Join Interior Amid Slew of Ethics Scandals
Mark Greenblatt Will Inherit Full Caseload as Inspector General at Interior Interior’s new Inspector General, Mark Greenblatt, is slated to begin his job soon, overseeing the Interior Department’s...
View ArticleLawsuit Filed Seeking Interior Secretary Bernhardt’s Communications with...
Interior Officials Violated FOIA Law by Stonewalling Public Information Request Today, American Oversight filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 19-2527,...
View ArticleOn Summer Vacation, Sen. McSally Takes a Hike on Public Trail She Refuses to...
McSally Committed to Hiking Arizona National Scenic Trail That Relies on Land and Water Conservation Fund Prior to leaving Washington D.C. for summer recess, Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) announced a...
View ArticleTrump Releases Grand Staircase Management Plan, an Exercise in Illegal Futility
With Court Cases Pending, Trump Administration Wastes Taxpayer Dollars By Issuing Public Lands Rollback Plan Today, the Trump administration officially released a new Resource Management Plan for...
View ArticleRepublican Report Confirms Bernhardt Violated Trump’s Ethics Pledge
Mega-Lobbyist Turned-Interior Secretary Met With Former Oil and Gas Client House Republican Oversight and Reform Committee members Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) released a ‘staff...
View ArticleDaines Dismisses Constituent Concerns Over Anti-Public Lands Extremist
Daines Calls Constituent Concerns ‘Overblown,’ Has Yet to Meet with BLM’s Acting Director William Pendley While on summer Congressional recess, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) heard from constituents across...
View ArticleIn Case You Missed It: Trump’s Reckless Government Shutdown Leaves Interior...
While Interior Touts Wildlife Prevention, The West Remains Short-Staffed During Peak Fire Season With the Department of Interior touting a “tireless” effort to prevent this season’s forest fires, it...
View ArticleIn Case McSally Missed It: AZ Op-Ed Pressures Sen. McSally to Fund Crucial...
Arizona Senator Has Yet to Ensure Full and Permanent Funding for Land and Water Conservation Fund With hunting season in Arizona just around the corner, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) –...
View ArticlePres. Trump to Meet with Scandal-Ridden Sec. Bernhardt for Private Lunch Meeting
Trump Recently Tried Defending Disastrous Record By Claiming to be an ‘Environmentalist,’ as Bernhardt Greenlights Environmental Destruction President Trump is scheduled to have a private lunch...
View ArticleGardner Remains Silent on Anti-Public Lands Extremist Overseeing Bureau of...
Colorado Constituents Wonder Where Their Senator Stands On Unconfirmed Acting Director William Perry Pendley Congressional recess is supposed to provide our nation’s representatives with time to meet...
View ArticleMcSally Remains Silent on Appointment of Anti-Public Lands Extremist
Arizona Constituents Wonder Where Their Senator Stands On William Pendley, New Head of the BLM More than six weeks ago, the Trump Administration appointed William Pendley as the acting director of the...
View ArticleSenior Interior Official Resigns Amid Unanswered Questions about Proposed BLM...
Assistant DOI Secretary Joe Balash Resigns Ahead of Scheduled Congressional Testimony on BLM Move According to news reports, today is the Department of the Interior (DOI) Assistant Secretary Joe...
View ArticleAnother Interior Farewell: Todd Wynn Resigns Amid Investigation Into His Ethics
After Two Years At Interior, Wynn Waves Goodbye to Swamp He Helped Create Todd Wynn, the Director of the Interior Department’s Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, is leaving the...
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