Lawmakers clash over environmentalist groups' influence on Interior Department

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House lawmakers at a Natural Resources oversight subcommittee hearing sparred Tuesday over whether the Department of the Interior allows undue influence by nonprofit activist groups and private companies.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the budget request for fiscal year 2023 for the Department of the Interior, Thursday, May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Haaland said a …

Mr. Gosar mentioned the leftwing protest group Code Pink, which advocates for ending fossil fuels and domestic mining as well as leading protests against Israel’s response to the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas on Oct. 7. “Before joining the Biden administration, Secretary Haaland was very involved with the PAA and repeatedly advocated for their preservations as policies to withdraw more land in the Chaco Canyon from natural resource development,” Mr. Gosar said.

Ms. Stansbury defended Ms. Haaland, a fellow New Mexican, whom she described as the “nation’s very first indigenous Cabinet secretary.” “In fact, when you scratch the surface, what you find is that the Trump Interior Department offered unprecedented access to oil and gas, mining and other special interests that resulted in dozens of investigations and criminal referrals.”Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center; Tyler O’Neil, author of “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and Richard Painter, S.

During an informal process, an agency will study an issue and eventually draft a notice of proposed rulemaking. Later on, the agency drafts a proposed rule that is reviewed internally and then by the Office of Management and Budget and its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

 

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