Senate Republicans’ top environmental watchdog is determined to
intensify oversight of leading environmentalist groups, which he says
are orchestrating a massive, coordinated political effort financed by a
handful of billionaire activists. Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) told the Washington Free Beacon
in an interview on Thursday that he is pleased with the investigative
work to date by Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works
committee (EPW), which Vitter chairs. If Republicans retake the Senate in November, as numerous forecasting
models and political analysts have predicted, Vitter said his committee
would dramatically increase its scrutiny on environmentalist
organizations such as the Natural Resource Defense Council and the
Sierra Club. “We go into the majority and we are able to ramp that up even more
and in an even more effective way because we have significantly more
powers in terms of calling hearings, calling witnesses, and subpoenaing
documents when necessary,” Vitter said. “So that’s the logical extension
of our work to date.” That work has included intense scrutiny on a network of environmentalist groups that a recent EPW report dubbed the “billionaire’s club.”...more
Better yet, quit putting federal $$ in the enviro orgs budgets, quit funding agencies that do their bidding and amend environmental statutes so they are more reasonable. That would do more for the public than just issuing reports or holding hearings.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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