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 of congressional oversight trips, […]

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 […]

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 the […]

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), […]

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 Utah’s […]

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 parks. Today, the Government […]

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 Conservation Fund (LWCF) […]

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 public documents from a request […]

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 […]

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 Balash’s […]