The House Natural Resources Committee demanded answers Tuesday from the Fish and Wildlife Service over its ecogrief training for employees and warned that a full investigation could ensue unless the agency cancels the course and uses the money for more important priorities such as saving endangered animals.
Rep. Bruce Westerman of Arkansas led committee Republicans in denouncing the training as “extremely tone deaf” at a time when the Fish and Wildlife Service is struggling to calibrate its mission of habitat and species conservation.
“We are deeply concerned that this kind of meaningless pandering is a colossal waste of taxpayer funding, does nothing to further the purpose of the USFWS and diverts important resources away from critical agency functions,” Mr. Westerman and the other lawmakers wrote to the agency.