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A group of western U.S. Senators is urging the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to hold a hearing as soon as possible to consider the nomination of William Perry Pendley to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Pendley has previously called for selling all federally owned land, which includes land managed by the agency he is now nominated to lead.
His nomination for the position has been widely criticized, including by Montana Senator Jon Tester who spearheaded the letter to the committee calling for an expedited hearing. Senator Tester said, "He has no business overseeing public lands he has spent his career working to undermine. While I strongly oppose this nomination, I am pushing for the process to move as quickly as possible so that William Perry Pendley can be held accountable to the American public.”
Podcast: A conversation with Latino conservation leaders
On the next episode of the Center for Western Priorities' "Go West, Young Podcast," a conversation with three Western environmental leaders—Teresa Martinez, Noé Orgaz, and Ean Thomas Tafoya—about the 7th annual Latino Conservation Week, which is underway right now.
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[William Perry] Pendley has supported extremists, defended leases issued on sacred tribal land without tribal consultation and worked to undermine wildlife habitat protections based on years of careful negotiations. He has proven unwilling to work with local communities on collaborative solutions and is not a credible honest broker on land management or tribal sovereignty issues that come before the agency.”
