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.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Probe clears Interior secretary after accusations of interfering with pesticide assessments
An internal watchdog investigation on Tuesday found no wrongdoing on
the part of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt after he was accused
of interfering in an assessment of the effects of pesticides on
endangered species. The probe by the Interior Department's
inspector general found that Bernhardt told a Fish and Wildlife Services
(FWS) team looking at possible effects of pesticides to change its
methods and that he reviewed a draft opinion, according to a synopsis.
Bernhardt had been the department's deputy secretary at the time. "This
change has delayed the completion of the opinion, but we found no
evidence that Bernhardt exceeded or abused his authority or that his
actions influenced or altered the findings of career FWS scientists," the report said.
"We also found no evidence that Bernhardt’s involvement in this matter
violated his ethics pledge or Federal ethics regulations."...MORE
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