Jewell attacked for giving money to environmental groups

Washington Republican Rep. Doc Hastings is the chairman of the House Resources Committee, which gives him a powerful forum for his pro-development views on public lands.

And it has given him the power to put Obama Administration officials and environmentalists on the hot seat when their views and policies don’t line up with his. Unfortunately for him it does not give him the power to grill Obama’s nominees for posts like Interior Secretary.

But he’s weighing in by proxy anyway with an attack on REI, Inc. CEO and former petroleum engineer Sally Jewell, Obama’s popular choice for Interior Secretary.

Her sins?

She gave money to mainstream environmental groups like the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited and others like Save Our Wild Salmon. Hastings especially doesn’t like them because they are pushing to remove the four lower Snake dams in Washington he’s fighting to save.

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