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'You Report To Me' by David Berhardt (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State’

By William Perry Pendley

A man walks past the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Washington Monument as sunrise approaches on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Visit by COVID-infected official closes Washington Monument

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 2014, photo is Margerie Glacier, one of many glaciers that make up Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park. U.S. officials on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, released details on proposed land conservation purchases for the coming year amid bipartisan objection to restrictions on how the government's money can be spent. (AP Photo/Kathy Matheson, File)

Land conservation plan stirs fight over Trump restrictions

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Interior secretary will not delay New Mexico land-use plan

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In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The Department of the Interior has approved an oil and gas leasing program within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is home to polar bears, caribou and other wildlife. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt signed the Record of Decision, which will determine where oil and gas leasing will take place in the refuge’s coastal plain. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

Interior approves oil-and-gas leasing program for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley speaks at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo. President Donald Trump intends to withdraw the nomination of Pendley to head the Bureau of Land Management, a senior administration official said Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, much to the relief of environmentalists who insisted the longtime advocate of selling federal lands should not be overseeing them. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

William Perry Pendley Bureau of Land Management nomination to be withdrawn by Trump

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley speaks at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo. President Donald Trump intends to withdraw the nomination of Pendley to head the Bureau of Land Management, a senior administration official said Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, much to the relief of environmentalists who insisted the longtime advocate of selling federal lands should not be overseeing them. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Trump to withdraw Pendley’s nomination as public lands chief

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump poses for a photo during a signing ceremony for H.R. 1957 – &quot;The Great American Outdoors Act,&quot; in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Park service gets new chief as new cash flows from Congress

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Tribal leaders including Myrna Warrington, far left, of Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, gave Ivanka Trump a ceremonial key when she spoke at the grand opening of the first Missing and Murdered Native American Cold Case Office. American Indians and Alaska Native are 2.5 times as likely to experience violent crimes. This is one of seven offices that is being established under Executive Order 13898 by President Donald J. Trump. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Feds launch Minnesota office on missing Indigenous cases

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM - Associated Press

In this July 6, 2011, file photo, a grizzly bear roams near Beaver Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says the federal government is moving forward with plans to restore grizzly bears in the remote North Cascade Mountains of Washington state. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart) **FILE**

David Bernhardt scraps plan to reintroduce grizzlies to Washington’s Northern Cascades

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 4, 2019 file photo, fireworks go off over the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, July 4, 2019. The Trump administration is promising one of the largest fireworks displays in recent memory for Washington on July 4. It also plans to give away as many as 300,000 face masks to those who come down to the National Mall, although they won't be required to wear them. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump plans huge July 4 fireworks show despite DC’s concerns

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

Land management acting director remains, lawsuit filed

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Judge invalidates proposed land swap for Alaska refuge road

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press

Interior Secretary plans Grand Canyon visit for reopening

By Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2005, file photo, tourist Chris Farthing, from Suffolks County, England, takes a picture of Anasazi ruins in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says he'll extend the public comment period on a contested plan that will guide oil and gas drilling and other development in an area of New Mexico that includes a national park and locations important to Native American tribes. (AP Photo/Jeff Geissler, File)

US to grant more time to consider New Mexico drilling plan

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise, endangered and protected by federal law from harm or harassment, to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. The Trump administration has given final approval to the largest solar energy project in the U.S. and one of the biggest in the world despite objections from conservationists who say it will destroy habitat critical to the survival of the threatened Mojave desert tortoise in southern Nevada. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Biggest US solar project approved in Nevada despite critics

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

This Oct. 20, 2019, file photo shows Karen Tara, of San Francisco, soaking in the views of El Capitan from the top of Sentinel Dome in Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers) ** FILE **

Trump administration plans to reopen national parks ‘as rapidly as possible’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Members of the Mobile County Sheriff's Department Inmate Work Crew prepare Hank Aaron's childhood home for it's move, in Mobile, Ala. Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. The house is scheduled to be moved to Hank Aaron Stadium on Friday and will be renovated to what it was when Hank Aaron's father Herbert first built it in the 1940s. It will then be turned into the Hank Aaron Museum and Learning Center where it will house Aaron memorabilia and offer glimpses into Mobile's baseball history. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Bill Starling)

David Bernhardt halts prison labor in national parks

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

US to hire two grizzly specialists in Montana amid conflicts

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