Interior Department wants to shut down public information access | Salon.com

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Summary:

"Ryan Zinke is out as Secretary of the Interior, but in his last days in office, he tried to suppress what we can learn about the destruction Trump is doing to our nation’s public lands.

Attorney Daniel Jorjani, who previously worked at the Koch-funded Freedom Partners, drafted a proposed rule that would slash the public’s ability to get public records from the 10 agencies in the Interior Department....

Zinke also tried to get permission to destroy some records about what animals are protected under the Endangered Species Act. A recent memo at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department, part of the Interior Department, directs staffers to withhold or delay releasing some public documents about how the Endangered Species Act is carried out...."

Link:

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/03/interior-department-wants-to-shut-down-public-information-access_partner/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.negative oa.usa oa.foi oa.usa.interior oa.trump

Date tagged:

01/05/2019, 16:08

Date published:

01/05/2019, 11:08