“William Perry Pendley’s nomination to lead the Bureau of Land Management may have been pulled, but he’s still effectively leading the organization. Two lawsuits are still trying to put that to an end.
The Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, filed the second suit. Peter Jenkins is a senior counsel at PEER, and says that while the lawsuits are needed, “the political case against Mr. Pendley is so strong that that may get resolved before the legal case.””
