Senior Dem lawmaker: move USBLM HQ back to DC

A top congressional leader is calling on the Biden administration to reverse a Trump-era decision to uproot the federal government's land management agency and scatter its employees across the West.

Under the Trump administration, leaders moved the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from Washington to Grand Junction, Colo., a town of about 60,000 in the state’s Republican-leaning Western Slope, while dispersing the rest of its D.C.-based employees to different offices.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/549733-grijalva-calls-for-return-of-public-lands-agency-to-dc-after-trump

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