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By SUZANNE ROY
Outgoing Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and his illegally serving Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director William Perry Pendley will go down in history as the worst stewards of our nationâs public lands. The past four years have seen an unrelenting assault on the environment as Bernhardt and Pendley sought to overturn key environmental laws and deregulate activities of the oil, gas, mining and livestock industries on the public resources they exploit.
Americaâs wild horses and burros were not spared. Pendley famously called wild horses an âexistential threatâ to public lands, an absurd claim that laid the groundwork for his plan to round up 90,000 wild horses and burros over the next five years. The plan would decimate wild herds and cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion in its initial phase alone.
When former Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s bill, the Great American Outdoors Act, became the law of the land last summer, it was hailed as the “holy grail” of the
February 18, 2021 7:00 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee
President Joe Bidenâs proposed immigration overhaul will be introduced in Congress today, kicking off what will likely be one of his most difficult legislative challenges.
The legislation, known as the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, hews closely to the outline that Biden sent to Congress on his first day in office. The proposal includes an eight-year path to citizenship for most of the roughly 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S., bolsters the nationâs refugee and asylum systems and calls for additional technology to be used to help secure the southern border, administration officials told reporters late yesterday.
When acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega rescinded a directive from former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt last week, he appears to have steered a fed