It seems that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources is conducting an investigation into how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determines what energy companies and other private businesses pay in what is conveniently called “Voluntary Payments” used to “mitigate” impacts on migratory birds. This could prove interesting.
An email that accompanied this letter from the head of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said that even though the letter requested sought-after information before December 1, 2016, as of January 10, 2017, no “substantive documents” had been received.
Isn’t this very much typical administration stonewalling? In this case, let the next director handle it.
