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Speak up for the Eisenhower Executive Office Building: Comments Due November 16

The federal government wants to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, and the public now has a chance to tell them no. On October...

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...

OA issues Environmental Assessment for the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

On October 16, 2026, the Office of Administration (“OA”) a component of the Executive Office of the President published a Notice of Availability in the...

106 Strong Coalition Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the NHPA

Sixty years ago today, Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act. Since then, Section 106 has asked one simple thing of the federal government: look...

Former Federal Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Interior Brings Federal Indian Law and Federal Litigation Expertise to CHP’s Tribal Nations Practice

Washington, DC — October 08, 2026 — Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC (CHP), a leading law firm focused on protecting cultural heritage as a human right,...

Cultural Heritage Partners Hosts 106 Strong Coalition Webinar on Proposed Changes to NHPA

Today, Cultural Heritage Partners PLLC founding partners Marion Forsyth Werkheiser and Greg Werkheiser as well as Tribal Nations Practice lead Jessie Barrington hosted a webinar...

SENATORS HEINRICH AND WHITEHOUSE JOIN REPUBLICANS TO STRIP SAFEGUARDS FOR TRIBAL SACRED SITES AND AMERICA’S HISTORIC PLACES

106 Strong Coalition, representing more than 800 Tribal Nations and organizations and 8 million Americans, calls the deal a betrayal of communities the senators...

We’re Hiring: Spring 2027 Law Clerk

We’re Hiring: Spring 2027 Law Clerk (Remote or Richmond, VA) Cultural Heritage Partners (CHP) invites law students to apply for a Spring 2027 Law Clerk...

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...