Aug 14, 2026 | Look West Newsletter
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s botched $16 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is threatening the National Park Service’s reputation and morale, the Associated Press reports. Representative Jared Huffman said park service... 
Aug 11, 2026 | Westwise Blog
The oil industry just posted some of its best profits in years while Americans pay more at the pump President Donald Trump promised to “cut your energy prices in half” within his first year in office using his “energy dominance” agenda. Instead, energy dominance has... 
Aug 6, 2026 | Look West Newsletter
In April, Clearway Energy Group wrote to the Bureau of Land Management to amend a 2021 application to build a 500-megawatt solar project on federal land in Nevada and replace it with a data center and natural gas facility. Clearway’s plans for the gas plant and... 
Aug 5, 2026 | Look West Newsletter
U.S. Attorney and top D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro brought a box full of evidence to a meeting with President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum at the White House on Monday to prove that the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by... 
Jul 23, 2026 | Look West Newsletter
In 2025, the Trump administration spent more taxpayer dollars on no-bid contracts than any other one-year period in the last 10 years, according to an analysis by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). No-bid contracts are contracts that the government arranges...