What is Corrupt Former Mega-Lobbyist Turned-Interior Secretary Bernhardt...
Interior Political Appointee Pulled Public Documents From Request During Awareness Review Process Today, Western Values Project released another instance of an Interior political appointee removing...
View ArticleSec. Bernhardt Offers Band-Aid Funding While Critical Public Lands and Parks...
Bernhardt Supports Trump’s Budget, Which Nearly Zeroes Out LWCF Funding Today, Interior Secretary Bernhardt took credit for allocating small state matching grants under the Land and Water...
View ArticleTrump Administration Illegally Raided Funds From National Parks
Bernhardt Wrongly Insisted Diverted National Parks Funds During Government Shutdown was Legal Pres. Trump’s government shutdown is still producing consequences for our public lands and national...
View ArticlePendley’s Bureau of Land Management Announces Leasing On Utah Land Despite...
Interior Has Yet to Release Anti-Public Lands Zealot’s Financial Disclosures or Recusal Documents The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it will begin leasing cultural lands in...
View ArticleFrom the Empty Public Lands Fund to Investigations Within Interior, Congress...
With Congress Back from Recess, Public Lands and Parks Fund Should be on the Top of the List As Congress returns from summer recess, Western senators like Sens. McSally (R-AZ), Gardner (R-CO), and...
View ArticleAt Bureau of Land Management Relocation Hearing, Pendley Proves He’s...
Anti-Public Lands Zealot Disregards Career Employees’ Opinions, Reassures Committee that He Will Remain in D.C. Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) William Pendley was grilled by...
View ArticleFormer Monsanto Employee to Utilize Trump’s Revolving Door to Join...
Fish and Wildlife Nominee Aurelia Skipwith to Face Senate Committee Today Today, the Senate will hear from Trump’s nominee to be the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Aurelia...
View ArticleSec. Bernhardt and Interior’s Latest Effort to Skirt Congressional Oversight
Chief of Staff Todd Willens Finds Excuse To Potentially Illegally Cancel Congressional Oversight Trips Interior Department chief of staff Todd Willens has reportedly canceled Interior’s sponsorship...
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Interior Nominee Donates to Trump Two Days After Nomination
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services Nominee Aurelia Skipwith’s Only Campaign Contribution In the Last Ten Years Was To… Trump for President Questions have been raised concerning Aurelia Skipwith, the...
View ArticleWatchdog Files Suit for Bureau of Land Management Relocation Documents
As Subpoena Threat Looms, Trump Administration Violates Law by Failing to Respond to Western Values Project Public Documents Request Today, Western Values Project (WVP), a Montana-based public lands...
View ArticleSen. McSally Fails to Join Colleagues in Calling for Permanent LWCF Funding
More Empty Promises from McSally, Who Uses Public Lands Protections as Talking Points In the coming weeks, the Senate is expected to finalize several short-term funding bills worth hundreds of...
View ArticleNational Park Employees Told to Report to D.C. Bosses When Concerned About...
Trump Administration Issues Memo Intended to Silence Critical Voices New reporting from the Washington Post has revealed that the Trump administration is now requiring national park supervisors to...
View ArticleSec. Bernhardt Joining Sen. Gardner at Colorado Political Fundraiser to Clean...
Bernhardt To Raise Money For Colorado Republican Party Amidst Public Lands Bureau Move Criticism Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt is heading to Colorado today to keynote a political...
View ArticleInterior’s Watchdog Opens Investigation into Political Interference by Trump...
New Investigation At Least Fourth into Bernhardt’s Interior After Western Values Project (WVP), a Montana-based public lands watchdog nonprofit, first highlighted political malfeasance within the...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Former Key Koch Employee Jorjani to Top Position at Interior...
Senate Leadership Ignores Investigation and Officially Appoint Bernhardt’s Mini-Me to Interior’s Solicitor General Post Today, the Senate voted to confirm Daniel Jorjani to the Interior Department’s...
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Nominee to Head Fish and Wildlife Service Fails to Disclose Lobbying Ties
Aurelia Skipwith’s History with Special Interests Makes Her Too Conflicted to Lead US Fish and Wildlife Agency WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 11: Nominee to be Director for the Fish and Wildlife Service...
View ArticleActing Bureau of Land Management Director Too Conflicted To Work With Over 50...
Mega-Recusal List Shows William Pendley Would be Conflicted on Nearly Every Decision Before the BLM William Pendley’s — the Acting Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director — 17-page recusal list was...
View ArticleOil Industry Lawyer Blasts Trump’s Interior Department as Incompetent
Independent Petroleum Association of America — Sec. Bernhardt’s Former Oil Lobbying Client — Skewers Incompetence of Trump’s Interior Appointees A high-ranking lawyer representing the powerful...
View ArticleConflicted Interior Secretary Bernhardt Continues to Work Overtime for a...
Bernhardt Helped Greenlight Destructive Dam Expansion Project Benefiting Westlands Water District Over State, Scientific Objections Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s relationship with his former...
View ArticleChristian Palich, Another Former Lobbyist, Joins Interior Despite Clear...
Full Background Research on Christian Palich, Interior’s Senior Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Advisor Today, the Western Values Project released a new profile on their Department of Influence...
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