President Trump officially nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Since Barrett has only been a federal judge since 2017, not much is known yet about her environmental record. But from her views on corporations to women’s reproductive rights and health care, it’s fair to call her a devotee of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she clerked in the late 1990s — far from a pro-environmental champion. 

Late last week, a federal judge in Montana clearly rebuked nearly four years of Trump’s temporary acting official’s legal charade that could have major implications across the administration. The judge removed Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley’s authority and indicated that actions under his reign could be voided.  

One day was too long for an extremist like Pendley at the helm of America’s public lands and natural resources. It’s been four years of the Trump administration and corrupt Interior Secretary Bernhardt violating the law and ignoring the Constitution. While it’s a strong affirmation of the rule of law, it’s truly disappointing to see the majority in the U.S. Senate stand idly by as this administration flaunts it.

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.