Did you know that companies are extracting natural resources from public lands without giving taxpayers their fair share of the profits?
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) raises this important issue in our latest podcast. POGO investigator Mia Steinle talks about the woefully outdated royalty programs for the mining and drilling of natural resources on public lands.
POGO and Taxpayers for Common Sense also just released a list of the top five reforms to the natural resource extraction system that were made under President Obama in the last eight years...along with the top five things that still need to be done. Read it here: http://www.pogo.org/our-work/articles/2016/natural-resource-reforms-priorities-progress.html
This podcast was recorded on September 22, 2016.
It is moderated by Ari Goldberg and produced by Iulia Gheorghiu, featuring original sounds from Bombadil.
