interior department
"Women are going missing," the interior secretary told HuffPost. “We need to build the opportunities for law enforcement and for people ... to care about this."
Tuesday's actions “unwind the bureaucratic knot" that the Trump administration created in the process of placing lands into trust, one Interior official said.
The Interior Secretary also signed an order to establish a climate task force to coordinate climate action across the massive federal agency.
Ironically, the last tweet from the Interior Department handle targeted Rep. Deb Haaland, who is now on the verge of taking over the agency.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Even some Republicans are pulling for the Native American congresswoman to get a historic appointment.
The administration is undercutting a major public lands law that the president used to greenwash his abysmal conservation record.
So much for "creating a conservation stewardship legacy second only to Teddy Roosevelt.”
William Perry Pendley says his personal views and past actions are “irrelevant” when it comes to leading an agency that manages more than one-third of all federal land.
The new acting director of the Bureau of Land Management appears to be another "fox guarding the henhouse" appointment in the Trump administration.
Sen. Ron Wyden said Daniel Jorjani, who has been nominated to be the agency's top lawyer, may have lied to Congress.