Watchdog group sues BLM for relocation docs

A conservation watchdog group sued the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wednesday, demanding that it hand over documents related to its relocation across the West. The Department of the Interior announced in July that it would be moving 300 Washington-based employees to existing offices out West, leaving just 61 employees in the nation’s capital. The Western Values Project filed the suit after Interior rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for the documents. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said he was weighing a subpoena to force Interior to turn over their planning documents...MORE