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There is Bipartisan, Bicameral Momentum to Save Section 106
A bipartisan, bicameral congressional letter to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and Vice Chairman Travis Voyles is circulating right now in both chambers...
CHP Submits FOIA request to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
On Friday, September 11, 2026, Cultural Heritage Partners (“CHP”) submitted an expedited Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation...
PLAINTIFFS CALL FOR INDEPENDENT PROTECTION OF THE KENNEDY CENTER
Statement of eight Plaintiff organizations: The American Institute of Architects (AIA), American Society of Landscape Architects, Committee of 100 on the Federal City, The Cultural...
Let’s build a Section 106 Resource Bank that Fights Back!
We’ve heard from many of you that it would be helpful to have a central resource bank that you can refer to when drafting comments—a...
Open Letter to Congress from National Coalition to Protect and Strengthen Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
On Thursday, August 27th, an unprecedented coalition of 600+ public, private, and nonprofit-sector organizations representing 5 million Americans, sent an open letter to call on...
CHP Meets with OIRA
On September 2, 2026, Cultural Heritage Partners PLLC founding partners Marion Forsyth Werkheiser and Greg Werkheiser met with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs...
Interior’s New Secretarial Order Won’t Speed Up Development. It Will Slow It Down.
Interior’s New Secretarial Order Won’t Speed Up Development. It Will Slow It Down. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act rests on a simple...
Section 106 is NOT a litigation risk
We Correct the Record: Responding to Misinformation about Section 106 Did you know that the odds you will get hit by lightning in your lifetime...
Court Orders Advance Notice Before Any Further Ground-Disturbing Work in Point Roberts
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — July 15, 2026 — A federal judge today granted significant preliminary relief to the Lummi Nation in its lawsuit challenging the disturbance...
New Lummi Nation Court Filing Deepens Story of Desecration of Burials at Point Roberts
New Lummi Nation Court Filing Deepens Story of Desecration of Burials at Point Roberts SEATTLE, WA — May 7, 2026 — Ten days after filing...
Lummi Nation Files Federal Lawsuit Over Repeated Trenching Through Ancestral Burial Grounds
Lummi Nation Files Federal Lawsuit Over Repeated Trenching Through Ancestral Burial Grounds Seattle, WA – April 28, 2026 – The Lummi Nation has filed a...
Commission of Fine Arts Reviews Proposal to Paint Historic EEOB granite white
What Happened Yesterday—and What Comes Next Yesterday the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, now composed largely of presidential appointees aligned with this project, convened to...
Plaintiffs in Cultural Heritage Partners et al. v. Trump et al. file complaint against the GSA for FOIA violation
Washington DC, January 22, 2026. – Earlier this month Cultural Heritage Partners filed a complaint a for the DC Preservation League against the General Services...
Federal Judge Seeks Government Response to Address New Evidence of White House End-Run on Federal Building Demolitions; Presses GSA to Expand Commitments in Eisenhower Executive Office Building Case
On Monday, Judge Dabney Friedrich issued a series of directives following Monday’s hearing in Cultural Heritage Partners et al. v. Trump et al., the lawsuit...
Plaintiffs’ File Final Briefing Before Oral Arguments
Last night, Plaintiffs in the lawsuit seeking to halt the President’s plans to abrade and paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) filed the final...
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL DELAY EEOB ALTERATIONS WHILE COURT DECIDES
Washington D.C. – November 19, 2025 – The Trump Administration, facing a lawsuit filed by preservationists including the law firm Cultural Heritage Partners and the...
PRESERVATION LAW FIRM AND DC PRESERVATION LEAGUE SUE TO PAUSE TRUMP’S LATEST RENOVATION PLANS
President Plans to Make the National Historic Landmark Eisenhower Executive Office Building “Beautiful” by Painting Every Exterior Surface White Regardless of who occupies the White...
Reflecting “the Stability of our Nation,” the East Wing Tumbles Down
Many Americans are aghast at the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to accommodate the State Ballroom project in October. This calamity...