BLM pushes ‘correct the record’ campaign on Pendley
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Elizabeth Duan | October 14, 2020
“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 ...
Greens sue Forest Service to release intel on timber audit
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Elizabeth Duan | October 13, 2020
“An environmental group geared toward public employees is suing the Forest Service to obtain an audit of the agency’s timber sales from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said it’s looking for evidence that the timber ...
Pendley on BLM: ‘I’m still here, I’m still running the bureau’
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Elizabeth Duan | October 9, 2020
“William Perry Pendley, who led the Bureau of Land Management illegally for more than a year, told a Wyoming newspaper this week that a federal judge’s ruling barring him from performing the duties of director “has no impact, no impact whatsoever” on his actions ...
‘It’s Orwellian’: Native loophole lets NASA shirk cleanup
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Elizabeth Duan | October 7, 2020
“After dramatically scaling back the cleanup plan for one of the country’s most contaminated areas, critics say, the Trump administration is now preparing to sidestep any remediation at all by declaring the entire near-3,000-acre former rocket and nuclear testing site near Los ...
Court could oust acting National Park Service chief
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Elizabeth Duan | October 1, 2020
“Two environmental watchdog groups asked a federal court in Washington yesterday to immediately remove acting National Park Service chief Margaret Everson, arguing she is unqualified and was illegally appointed by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. The groups, Public Employees for ...
