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Back in 2019, I made a Freedom of Information Act request for the work calendar of Michael Nedd, a longtime Bureau of Land Management official, for the months following the 2016 election through the inaugural period. The documents were released just the other day, six years and four months after I submitted the FOIA request.

Nedd had been promoted from Executive Director, Energy Minerals and Management to Deputy Director at the Bureau of Land Management in March of 2017, just a couple of months after Trump took office. He would have been privy, I imagined, to any discussions of Twin Metals’ canceled mineral leases and the full-court-press flurry to renew them. I thought his work calendar might help me fill out the Timeline I made of that coordinated effort or help me reconstruct what was happening behind closed doors at BLM.

Upon review, these documents do not seem all that helpful in that regard. For example, the Timeline indicates that on February 7, 2017, Nedd forwards a briefing paper on land withdrawals to his colleagues; no surprise, his calendar for that day shows a “Land Withdrawal Proposal Discussion.” In my view, all this does is drive home a point I’ve made many times, that reversing land withdrawals was a priority for the incoming administration. And we already have Nedd’s calendar for April of 2017, when he met with then-solicitor Daniel Jorjani and other officials to discuss “Mining in Minnesota.” Or at least we had that calendar, but the link (to a domain called altgov2) has now gone dead. Well, not exactly dead: it’s a tarted-up 404 Page, occupied by “affiliate marketers.” I’m not going to bother linking to it, but if you want to see what I’m talking about, just go to the entry for April 10th on the Twin Metals Timeline and click the link to Nedd’s calendar.) It’s been a while, and, contrary to popular wisdom, the Internet is not forever.

So why put these documents up now? Circumstances have changed. The threat to the Boundary Waters looks even more menacing than it did during Trump’s first term, and we should be paying attention to what’s going on now, not what happened eight or more years ago, right?

What’s more, Michael Nedd was frog marched out of BLM’s office back in May, 2025, for telling employees to ignore a DOGE directive. (Politico has the details here; the Washington Post also has a story; I’ll note in passing that it’s classic Politico to report Nedd’s ouster, which is part of the clumsily executed destruction of modern American government that we’re witnessing, as a threat to Trump’s fossil fuel agenda.) Though Nedd is still listed on the BLM website as Deputy Director, Greenwire reports that Joe Stout has now replaced him as Acting Deputy Director. Things are unclear: there may be litigation underway or some reinstatement in the works. (After all, the DC kleptocrats wouldn’t want to do anything to threaten that fossil fuel agenda).

Anyway, I put these records up now because a) they arrived, so I might as well acknowledge the response; b) they help fill out the public record for a critical period; c) someone else might find these records useful; and d) I have a chance to test out Muckrock’s DocumentCloud plugin for WordPress — which I have not used until now.

In order to upload the 2000-plus-page calendar to documentcloud.org, I had to break it into two parts.

Part 1.

Part 2.

Postscript 30 August 2025: Results from the plugin experiment are mixed. Right now, it looks as if the documentcloud server is returning a 500 error. The docs, if you want them, are here.

Postcript 2, 9 Sept 2025. 1) It turns out the 500 error only shows up when I try to view the documents on Chrome, on my laptop. The plugin works just fine on Safari and Firefox. And when I emailed Sanjin Ibrahimovic at Muckrock to ask about all this, he said he could not replicate the 500 error, even when viewing the post in Chrome. So, who knows? I speculated that it might be an extension I’m running on Chrome. As long as people can access the documents, all is well, I guess. 2) On Chris D’Amico‘s suggestion, I tried looking at the post in an incognito window. And I can see the docs just fine.

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#antiscience #bureaucracy #climatedenial #corruption #foia #freedomofinformationact

Killer Rabbit 90 @[email protected] · 2025-01-22 · 21:03 UTC

Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/us-thinktank-climate-science-deniers-working-with-rightwingers-in-eu-parliament-heartland-institute #HeartlandInstitute #FarRightExtremists #Europe #ClimateDeniers #ClimateDenial #ClimateChange

#heartlandinstitute #farrightextremists #europe #climatedeniers #climatedenial #climatechange

CelloMom On Cars @[email protected] · 2025-01-22 · 13:36 UTC

US #ClimateDenial group working with European far-right parties

"The #HeartlandInstitute, which has links to the Trump administration and has drawn on funding from companies including ExxonMobil and wealthy US Republican donors, has seized on a time when rightwing anti-climate action sentiment has been surging, and has set up a new European base in London."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/us-thinktank-climate-science-deniers-working-with-rightwingers-in-eu-parliament-heartland-institute

#climatedenial #heartlandinstitute

CelloMom On Cars @[email protected] · 2024-12-20 · 15:39 UTC

Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. #ClimateDenial Group in UK

"The #HeartlandInstitute – one of the organisations involved in the radical #Project2025 agenda for a second Donald Trump term – has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change.

Between the 2019 election and the 2024 campaign, #ReformUK received 92 percent of its funding (£2.3 million) from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate deniers."

https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/19/nigel-farage-helps-to-launch-heartland-institute-climate-denial-group-in-uk/

#climatedenial #heartlandinstitute #project2025 #reformuk

JuneSim63 💚 @[email protected] · 2024-09-20 · 17:22 UTC

As Nigel Farage's far-right anti-immigration Reform Party holds its conference in Birmingham, don't forget its anti-climate policies, funded by a powerful network of wealthy supporters.

Desmog's investigation and interactive map compiles for the first time the political infrastructure supporting Reform’s anti-climate crusade.

#ReformParty #NigelFarage #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial
#HeartlandInstitute #55TuftonStreet

Mapped: Reform UK’s Anti-Green Network - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/20/mapped-reform-uk-nigel-farage-anti-green-network/

#reformparty #nigelfarage #climateemergency #climatedenial #heartlandinstitute #55tuftonstreet

&2i @[email protected] · 2024-08-13 · 07:41 UTC

@europesays
This is good framing: "carbon pollution".
Better than global heating. "Pollution" implies polluters, with addresses.
It also denies a sense that 'warming' or 'heating' might be okay. No, pollution is a bad thing.
#CarbonPollution #ClimateDenial #climateCrisis

#carbonpollution #climatedenial #climatecrisis

CelloMom On Cars @[email protected] · 2023-04-07 · 17:27 UTC

"A thinktank, with a long history of denying #ClimateChange and spreading #misinformation, has mailed thousands of copies of a pseudoscience textbook to US schools.

However, a lengthy and detailed fact-check found that the book was filled with misleading claims. "

#HeartlandInstitute #ClimateDenial
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/climate-misinformation-books-teachers-schools-b2315454.html

#climatechange #misinformation #heartlandinstitute #climatedenial

CelloMom On Cars @[email protected] · 2023-01-22 · 16:07 UTC

They're closing the gas fields under Groningen province. This is the lucrative gas field that the country made a bundle on, thereby inventing #DutchDisease.

However,
"The government aims to provide incentives to companies to develop fields under the North Sea."

#ClimateDenial is worst when a government does it.

https://www.ft.com/content/b83066c3-faa6-4654-a8d1-05d2e76f2f39

#dutchdisease #climatedenial