"Interior Solicitor Nominee Faces Heavy Workload, Serious Scrutiny"

"Legal challenges abound for Daniel Jorjani, formally nominated yesterday to fill the long-vacant position of Interior Department solicitor.

They come with the territory, and a vast territory it is.

In New York City, Jorjani's narrowing of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act faces major lawsuits. In Roanoke, Va., the Southern Environmental Law Center is pressing him and other Interior officials for allegedly failing to turn over endangered species documents.

And in Washington, D.C., nine Minnesota groups and businesses have targeted Jorjani's December 2017 opinion effectively greenlighting the issuance of mineral leases to a company planning a copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness."

Michael Doyle reports for Greenwire April 2, 2019.