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September 25, 2020 by

Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley

New Polling Reveals Constitutional Conundrum for Key Senators Over Trump’s Former Top Land Manager

Voters in Six States Resoundingly Reject Acting Public Lands Manager Pendley’s Illegal Tenure New polling commissioned by Western Values Project, an Accountable.US project focused on public lands accountability, found that voters across six […]

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September 25, 2020 by

Tongass National Forest

Alaska Tongass Logging Expansion Born Out Of Trump’s Political Swamp

This decision was born out of the same corruption and cronyism that has dominated the Trump administration from the start. The revolving door, shady lobbyists, and disregard for the wishes of Alaskans and Indigenous communities are everything that’s wrong with how President Trump has managed our nation’s public lands and forests.

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September 25, 2020 by

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing On The Nomination Of David Bernhardt For Interior Secretary

The Trump Administration’s Four Years of Attacks On Our Public Lands

Over the past four years, the Trump administration has unilaterally ushered in the largest reductions to public lands protections and scrapped the largest habitat protection agreement in history, discredited science and climate science, issued countless rollbacks to bedrock environmental protections for corporate special interests, and repeatedly run afoul of the law.

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September 24, 2020 by

Six State Public Lands Polling Results

Full Results Of Public Policy Polling Commissioned By Western Values Project, An Accountable.US Project: Memo: Majority of Montana Voters Disapprove of Installment of Pendley as Acting Director of Bureau of […]

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September 17, 2020 by

Glacier Park Fire

Trump’s Climate Denial Is Costing Lives

Trump’s latest comments regarding science, climate change, and the raging fires across the West exemplify the apathetic ignorance of his administration whose obsession with the polluting fossil fuel industry is only making it worse. President Trump’s outlandish comments underline the administration’s climate denial policy objectives that started the day after the 2016 election when Trump implored swamp creatures like corrupt former lobbyist David Bernhardt to assist with the transition.

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September 14, 2020 by

Natst Drill site

A Flood Of Royalty Relief To Oil Corporations In Wyoming

It’s no secret that the Trump administration has prioritized bailing out Big Oil and extractive resource corporations over assistance for workers, struggling small businesses, and the unemployed, but new reporting by the Casper Star-Tribune, based on research by Western Values Project, further highlights the windfall for oil and gas producers in Wyoming after the Interior Department’s unilateral decision to grant royalty relief and suspend leases.

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September 9, 2020 by

Pendley's Illegal Tenure

Illegal Acting Bureau of Land Management Director Still In Post

A new ticker on WilliamPendley.org finds that Pendley has served as the bureau’s acting director for over 409 days, well beyond the limit established in law. Western Values Project released PendleyOvertime on Twitter and complied additional research on of some of the most salient examples of why senators must demand a pink slip for Pendley.

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September 1, 2020 by

Corrupt Trump Official’s Secretary Bernhardt and Administrator Wheeler Must Answer For Dirty Water Policies and Mismanagement

Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, both former extractive resource lobbyists, will be attending an event in Arizona to make an announcement about the Rio Salado Urban Waters Partnership. Both Trump administration cabinet members must answer for their dirty water policies.

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September 1, 2020 by

Interior’s Watchdog: Officials Lied To Congress In Order To Justify Wasteful, Damaging Relocation

Corrupt Administration’s Objectives Of A Bureau Brain-Drain And Special Interest Access Achieved  Following the Interior’s Office of the Inspector General report that concluded that Interior officials misled Congress, Western Values Project Director Jayson O’Neill issued the following response:  As this investigation rightfully concludes, […]

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August 19, 2020 by

Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley

Trump’s Anti-Public Lands Extremist Puts Himself In Charge Of America’s Public Lands

The Associated Press is reporting that Trump’s extremist and racist Bureau of Land Management ‘acting’ director William Pendley wrote the succession order that put him in charge of America’s largest land managing agency. This news comes after the Interior Department claimed for months that Pendley was operating under a secretarial ‘succession order.’

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