Congress Wants Land Agency to Ignore the Facts and Future

Center for Progressive Reform 2017-03-12

Summary:

Imagine you come across a colleague sitting at his desk amid piles of yellowed papers. When you ask what he is working on, he says it's his annual family budget. "What's with all the old papers?" you might ask. "Oh," he replies, "I always work my new budget off my receipts and bills from 1983, the year we married. Some of them are getting pretty hard to read." "Don't you keep updated records?" you might ask. "And haven't your family finances changed significantly over the last 34 years? I know one of your kids is going to college this fall. You've bought a new house, and you and your wife have switched jobs since then." "Well, yes," your colleague says, "but 1983 is the baseline for us." No reasonable person would plan a budget this way. Yet it is exactly the approach some in Congress are trying to foist on the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management in their latest effort to wipe away as many Obama-era regulations as possible.

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Authors:

Robert Glicksman

Date tagged:

03/12/2017, 08:45

Date published:

02/28/2017, 08:00