William Perry Pendley, delivered a speech to a group of rightwing activists in No Carolina, accusing “the media” of selling “their soul to the greens” and he made light of killing endangered species.“This is why out west we say ‘shoot, shovel and shut up’ when it comes to the discovery of endangered species on your property, “And I have to say, as a lawyer, that’s not legal advice.”It has been almost 3 years since he gave those remarks, and Pendley is now the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, a powerful agency that oversees more than 240m acres of federal land manages mineral resources and is required to comply with environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act.
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