Trump’s Bureau chief wants to give authority over federal lands to local law enforcement officials
by Raw Story | July 14, 2020
“Donald Trump’s acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, says local authorities should have primary law-enforcement authority on federal land. Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), said Pendley’s pronouncement no ...
Ackerman on Trump’s Nomination for BLM Director: “Unacceptable”
by CarsonNOW.org |
“Patricia Ackerman, Democratic candidate for Nevada Congressional District 2, last Friday stated her vehement opposition to news that President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Perry Pendley to be the Bureau of Land Management Director. Last week, President Trump announced his ...
Environmentalists Rally Against William Pendley’s BLM Nomination
by Denver Westword | July 13, 2020
“William Perry Pendley, who once wrote that the “Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold,” last month was officially nominated by President Donald Trump to become the director of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, ...
Oil and gas leases threaten the Old Spanish Historic Trail
by Salt Lake Tribune | July 10, 2020
“The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the midst of a massive oil and gas lease sale in Utah. The September sale of 114,000 acres of wild lands in Utah will touch national parks, monuments, proposed wilderness and some of the prettiest red rock vistas in Utah.” ...
Watchdog Accuses Trump’s NOAA of ‘Choosing Extinction’ for Critically Threatened Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence
by Common Dreams |
“As the North Atlantic right whale was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of critically endangered species Thursday, environmental protection groups accusing the U.S. government of bowing to fishing and fossil fuel industry pressure to downplay ...