Interior Must Cease Extracting Activities During Shutdown, Says Preservation Group
The administration decision to continue to permit grazing, mining, logging, and oil and gas extraction on public lands, amid the on-going government shutdown, is illegal and environmentally degrading, said the Center for Biological Diversity in an Oct. 15 letter to…
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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. The shutdown continues to furlough regulatory enforcement personnel that protect lands and wildlife, read the letter. The Department of the Interior is also violating the following clauses of the Anti-Deficiency Act through permitting extracting activities to continue.