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 […]

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 […]

In what appears to be a meet and run, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke failed to address critical questions from Western governors in public at their annual meeting in […]

As the Trump administration continues to try to justify an immoral, unbalanced budget with a $2 trillion accounting error, more cabinet members are pitching real estate deals to sell off […]

Campaign timed to coincide with the Western Governors’ Association meeting in Montana We launched a six-figure TV, digital, and print campaign in Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming in advance of […]