“More than a year into the job that is officially still temporary, William Perry Pendley, the acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, is doing things that may be permanent, and Senate Democrats are seeking a chance to hold him to account.
At Interior, heads of the BLM and the National Park Service have been operating without that approval but in acting capacities for months or years — practices that violate federal law, according to watchdog groups such as the nonpartisan Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Project on Government Oversight.”
