Josh Dorner | March 1, 2011 | Reposted from Think Progress
Newly-empowered House Republicans are once again pushing for Bush-era runaway energy development on the West’s public lands under the guise of “vigorous oversight” of the Obama administration’s public lands policy.
The House Natural Resources Committee will today hold a hearing into a long-overdue December decision by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to finally exorcise one of the most damaging legacies of disgraced former Bush Interior Secretary-turned-Big Oil executive Gale Norton. Republicans, including Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), have been apoplectic about Salazar’s decision to return to Reagan-era wild lands policies. Continuing a trend of letting industry lobbyists set their agenda, the Republicans on the Natural Resources Committee have called lobbyist William G. Myers III to testify today.
Myers has been a registered lobbyist for several energy and mining concerns, as well as other anti-regulatory groups like the Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Public Lands Council, and the National Association of Manufacturers. Myers, however, is perhaps best known for being a failed George W. Bush judicial nominee and the subject of an Inspector General’s rebuke for his Bush-era service as the Interior Department’s solicitor.
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