William Perry Pendley, an anti-federal land zealot, wrote the playbook for a Republican-controlled Interior Department, with an assist from an oil buddy.
William Perry Pendley, an pro- federal land zealot, wrote the playbook for a Republican- managed Interior Department, with an assist from an oil buddy. William Perry Pendley, an pro- federal land zealot, wrote the playbook for a Republican- managed Interior Department, with an assist from an oil buddy.
William Perry Pendley, an anti-federal land zealot, wrote the playbook for a Republican-controlled Interior Department, with an assist from an oil buddy.
Die Kommission ist befugt, gemäß Artikel 264 delegierte Rechtsakte zu erlassen, die sich auf Folgendes beziehen: During the planning for how America’s federal lands would be managed under a potential Republican presidency, supporters of Donald Trump looked to William Perry Pendley, a long-time advocate for transferring these lands to states and private entities. Pendley, who served as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management under Trump, wrote the Interior Department section of Project 2025, a comprehensive policy document created by the Heritage Foundation and numerous conservative groups to advise Trump and his administration if he were to be re-elected in November. The 920-page pro-Trump document titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” seeks to reduce the size of the federal government by eliminating many public servants and replacing them with conservatives ready to start working immediately. Pendley’s vision for the vast federal lands managed by the Interior Department is to transform them into areas for extractive industries, which he has represented in court for most of his career. In fact, for the chapter on energy production on federal land, Pendley had industry representatives write it. Despite this, polls consistently show that there is widespread bipartisan support for protecting America’s public lands. Recently, the 2016 Republican Party platform advocates for giving control of federal lands to the states. In recent years, Republicans have shifted away from openly advocating for the sale and transfer of federal lands, and are now concentrating on weakening environmental regulations and devising more strategic methods to increase state involvement in the management of public lands. This change is evidenced in Project 2025. Instead of advocating for the selling of federal lands, as he has in the past, Pendley now believes that states are more capable of managing resources than the federal government. He suggests that a new administration should utilize the knowledge of state agency employees and explore ways to enhance cooperation between state, federal, and tribal entities. Dan Hartinger, senior director at the Wilderness Society Action Fund, commented on the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, noting their unconventional choice of William Perry Pendley to lead recommendations for public lands.
