The Latest: Dems Say Interior Changes A Gift To Industry

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on a proposal to reorganize the Department of Interior and speed up permitting by the agency (all times local): 4:45 p.m. House Democrats say U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's revised plan to overhaul his department's sprawling bureaucracy has the same problem as his original proposal: It puts industry first. Zinke on Friday revealed in an Associated Press interview that he's backing away from plan to split up his agency based on natural features such as watersheds. Instead he wants to create 13 regions, largely along state lines, and to speed up permits issued by the agency that oversees vast public lands primarily in the west. House Natural Resources Committee ranking Democrat Raul Grijalva of Arizona says Zinke's latest proposal would let "Big Oil" decide the department's future. Among the opponents of Zinke's was original plan was the oil and gas industry.

 

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