Senate should delay vote until nominee answers questions Questions remain after new evidence surfaced late last week showing nominee for the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of the […]

Western Values Project calls on Senate to delay confirmation vote based on new evidence In a letter sent to Senators Murkowski and Cantwell, the Western Values Project called on the Senate to […]

National parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and recreation areas, as well as the minerals beneath them, belong to all Americans. The federal government holds these lands and resources in trust […]

Every year, oil and gas companies make billions of dollars in profits from drilling on America’s public lands.  Yet, American taxpayers continue to subsidize these companies with bargain-basement royalty and […]

Emails reveal Utah legislative leaders bashing Secretary Zinke, opposing executive action, and letting special interests write legislation Email correspondence (available here and here) obtained by the Western Values Project (WVP) reveals that behind […]

Industry loves to complain about regulatory burdens and “red tape” on federal public lands. The reality, however, is that these same companies are systematically exploiting loopholes, subsidies and other special […]

One of the little-told stories in the debate over the fate of Bears Ears National Monument is the Daneros uranium mine. While the boundaries of Bears Ears were drawn explicitly […]

Distorts BLM oil and gas leasing numbers in Bloomberg interview The numbers do not add up in Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s latest pitch to roll back common sense […]

Over the past few years, the oil and gas industry – aided by its army of lobbyists and millions of dollars in campaign donations – has spun a fabulous tale […]

Both Douglas Domenech and Brenda Burman are part of a pattern of ex-Bush officials and ex-lobbyists joining the administration Adding to the growing list of questionable appointments, the Trump administration […]