[PCA] NEWS: Report: Endangered species decisions tainted
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Dec 16 09:39:38 CST 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_go_ot/endangered_species
Report: Endangered species decisions tainted
Associated Press
Mon Dec 15, 9:35 pm ET
WASHINGTON -- A high-ranking Interior Department official tainted nearly
every decision made on the protection of endangered species over five
years, a new inspector general report finds, concluding she exerted
improper political interference on many more rulings than previously
thought.
Julie MacDonald, a former deputy assistant secretary overseeing the Fish
and Wildlife Service, did pervasive harm to the department's morale and
integrity and may have risked the well-being of species with her agenda,
Interior Inspector General Earl Devaney said in his report out Monday.
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