Interior centralizes ethics reviews after recent high-profile probes
(WorldNews Environment)

The Department of the Interior will be centralizing ethics reviews across its many agencies at its headquarters, following years of ethics investigations centered on many of the department´s top staff. In an order signed by Secretary David Bernhardt Wednesday and shared with The Hill, ethics officials at the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and others will report to ethics officials based at Interior´s headquarters rather than agency directors. Scott de le Vega, director of Interior´s Departmental Ethics Office, said the change was designed to ensure Interior´s roughly 70,000 employees are getting consistent ethics advice regardless of which...