{"id":49,"date":"2020-08-27T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progressivereform.network\/?p=49"},"modified":"2020-08-27T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:09:13","slug":"petition-climate-denier-and-blm-head-william-pendley-must-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/petition-climate-denier-and-blm-head-william-pendley-must-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"PETITION: Climate denier and BLM head William Pendley must resign."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/progressivereform.network\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pendley-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pendley-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pendley-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pendley-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pendley.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump has withdrawn his nomination of acting Bureau of Land Management head William Pendley to permanently lead the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But thanks to a bureaucratic sleight of hand, he&#8217;s still in charge as acting head. And Trump is refusing to nominate a replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s bad enough that Pendley denied there was an ozone hole and called climate change believers &#8220;kooks.&#8221; Pendley also wants to sell off our public lands and turbocharge fossil fuel development.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But his offensive history of climate denial and bigoted remarks makes his removal even more important. He compared undocumented immigrants to &#8220;cancer&#8221;, and said if &#8220;massive immigration&#8221; continued, &#8220;you and I will permanently lose the country we love.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pendley shouldn&#8217;t be anywhere near the Bureau of Land Management. He will never be permanent head of the BLM &#8212; he needs to go now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SIGN THE PETITION: Demand William Pendley resign as head of the Bureau of Land Management.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<link href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/css\/style-embed-v3.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"><script src=\"https:\/\/actionnetworka.org\/widgets\/v3\/form\/petition-icimate-denier-and-blm-head-william-pendley-must-resign?format=js&amp;source=widget\"><\/script><div id=\"can-form-area-petition-icimate-denier-and-blm-head-william-pendley-must-resign\" style=\"width: 600px\"><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has withdrawn his nomination of acting Bureau of Land Management head William Pendley to permanently lead the agency. But thanks to a bureaucratic sleight of hand, he&#8217;s still in charge as acting head. And Trump is refusing to nominate a replacement. It&#8217;s bad enough that Pendley denied there was an ozone hole and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivereform.network\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}