“The Trump administration continues to assert that a federal judge’s scathing order forbidding William Perry Pendley from leading the Bureau of Land Management has had no impact on Pendley or the bureau’s leadership.
Interior has been on the offensive regarding Pendley since May, when Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Western Watersheds Project filed a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of Pendley “exercising the authority of director” of BLM (Greenwire, May 11).”