Major Rollbacks to National Environmental Policy Act Expected to Reflect Sec. Bernhardt’s Long-Desired Revisions With rollbacks to the bedrock National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) expected to be released as soon […]

After already serving as the unconfirmed Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for five months, William Perry Pendley has officially been redelegated authority to lead America’s largest public lands management agency by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.

Key Western Senators Fail to Deliver Full and Permanent Funding For Land and Water Conservation Fund; Shorted $405 Million The Senate passed a major spending bill for the 2020 fiscal […]

Mark Greenblatt Will Inherit Full Caseload as Inspector General at Interior Interior’s new Inspector General, Mark Greenblatt, is slated to begin his job soon, overseeing the Interior Department’s ethics probes […]

Improper ‘Political Review Process’ Has Led to Political Coverup Western Values Project, a Montana-based nonprofit conservation group, and Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog group focused on public accountability, have […]

A new analysis by Western Values Project discovered that major media outlets including The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Politico, The Hill and others, as well as watchdog organizations, were subject to the political awareness review, causing delays and, in some cases, limiting responsive public documents being released.

Only seven of the 27,375 documents released by the Interior Department publicly accessible in a new online database were written by Secretary David Bernhardt, suggesting that Interior is withholding key documents and emails written by Bernhardt. The apparent suppression of Bernhardt’s documents come as Interior is facing lawsuits and calls for investigations into the secret political review process of pending public records requests.