Interior secretary gives DOGE member with oil-industry ties power to remake department

Los Angeles Times - 00:27
Tyler Hassen, a member of Elon Musk's DOGE team with ties to the oil industry, was recently named assistant secretary in the Department of Interior, with the power to make vast changes to the agency in charge of more than 500 million acres of federal land.

A former oil executive and representative of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team has been given wide authority to make significant changes to the Department of Interior, the agency tasked with overseeing national parks and more than 500 million acres of federal land.

The move has alarmed conservation groups, including some that have accused Interior Secretary Doug Burgum of stepping aside to give Musk and his team “carte blanche” to possibly fire park rangers, public land managers and wildfire specialists across the country.

The order was signed Thursday by Burgum, giving Tyler Hassen sweeping ...
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