“David Vela, the de facto director of the National Park Service, and William Perry Pendley, the de facto director of the Bureau of Land Management, have been kept in their positions unconstitutionally, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, the watchdog group and Western Watersheds Project claim Interior Secretary David Bernhardt also broke federal law by using Vela and Pendley, deputy directors, to work as agency heads.”