The following article by Ryan Grenoble and Kimberly Yam was posted on the Huffington Post website March 15, 2018:
Zinke made the dumb comment in response to a plea that we not forget a dark moment in our country’s history.
Let’s all hope President Donald Trump’s next candidate for secretary of state isn’t Ryan Zinke. Because as evidenced by a stupid blunder on Thursday, diplomacy isn’t his strong suit.
The incident centers around Zinke’s tone-deaf reaction to Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii), whose grandfathers were incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II for their Japanese heritage. She said one of her grandfathers, a U.S. citizen, didn’t speak about the painful experience until much later in life. Continue reading “Ryan Zinke To U.S. Rep. Whose Grandparents Were Imprisoned In WWII: ‘Konnichiwa!’”
The following article by Mark Hand was posted on the ThinkProgress website March 13, 2018:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Credit: Melina Mara/Washngton Post via Getty Images
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s visit to a small town south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, less than three weeks before a special election, is drawing scrutiny to determine whether the official trip was really an opportunity to throw his support behind the Republican hoping to fill the open congressional seat.
Several politicians were on hand for the February event in East Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, reportedly organized to announce how much funding Pennsylvania will receive in abandoned mine grant funding. The most prominent politician on hand was Rick Saccone, a Republican candidate for Congress who has received strong support from President Donald Trump. Continue reading “Ryan Zinke’s trip to Pennsylvania may have violated the Hatch Act”
The following article by Mark Hand was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 23, 2018:
Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Speak at the CPAC 2018 Conference in Maryland on 2/23/18. Credit: Screenshot/Webcas
Calling himself a “foot soldier in the army” of the conservative moment, Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Friday hailed President Trump’s war on government rules. This is despite the Department of Energy waging a months-long campaign in 2017 to allow the government, not free markets, decide what types of fuel sources should be used to generate electricity.
The following article by Lisa Friedman was posted on the New York Times website February 12, 2018:
An Obama-era rule would have limited the flaring of natural gas, as seen here at an oil well near Watford City, ND Credit: Andrew Cullen/Reuters
The Trump administration on Monday moved to repeal one of the last unchallenged climate-change regulations rushed into place in the waning days of the Obama presidency — a rule restricting the release of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere.
The rule, which applied to companies drilling for energy on federal land, has been the subject of intense court battles and delay efforts, as well as one surprise vote last year in which Senate Republicans temporarily saved it from being torpedoed.
The following article by Juliet Eilperin and Michael Laris was posted on the Washington Post website February 8, 2018:
Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management has finalized a set of recommendations that would overhaul the way it permits energy exploration and other activities on public land by streamlining environmental reviews, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
The following article by Nick Juliano was posted on the Politico website February 1, 2018:
Two tribes in Connecticut say the Interior Department illegally failed to say yes or no to their plans for a third casino in the state.
The Interior Department’s refusal to sign off on the tribes’ plans for a third Connecticut casino came after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and other senior department officials held numerous meetings and phone calls with MGM lobbyists and the company’s Republican supporters in Congress. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Two casino-owning American Indian tribes are accusing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of illegally blocking their plans to expand operations in Connecticut — a delay that stands to benefit politically connected gambling giant MGM Resorts International.
The Interior Department’s refusal to sign off on the tribes’ plans for a third Connecticut casino came after Zinke and other senior department officials held numerous meetings and phone calls with MGM lobbyists and the company’s Republican supporters in Congress, according to a POLITICO review of Zinke’s schedule, lobbying registrations and other documents.The documents don’t indicate whether they discussed the tribes’ casino project. Continue reading “Zinke’s agency held up Indians’ casino after MGM lobbying”
The following article by Elizabeth Kolbert was posted on the New Yorker website January 24, 2018:
Under Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior, it’s a sell-off from sea to shining sea.
llustration by Tom Bachtell
In his first day as Secretary of the Interior, last March, Ryan Zinke rode through downtown Washington, D.C., on a roan named Tonto. When the Secretary is working at the department’s main office, on C Street, a staff member climbs up to the roof of the building and hoists a special flag, which comes down when Zinke goes home for the day. To provide entertainment for his employees, the Secretary had an arcade game called Big Buck Hunter installed in the cafeteria. The game comes with plastic rifles, which players aim at animated deer. The point of the installation, Zinke has said, is to highlight sportsmen’s contribution to conservation. “Get excited for #hunting season!” he tweeted, along with a photo of himself standing next to the game, which looks like a slot machine sporting antlers.
Nowadays, it is, in a manner of speaking, always hunting season at the Department of the Interior. The department, which comprises agencies ranging from the National Park Service to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, oversees some five hundred million acres of federal land, and more than one and a half billion acres offshore. Usually, there’s a tension between the department’s mandates—to protect the nation’s natural resources and to manage them for commercial use. Under Zinke, the only question, from the redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters, is how fast these resources can be auctioned off. Continue reading “The Damage Done by Trump’s Department of the Interior”
The following article by Juliet Eilperin was posted on the Washington Post website January 17, 2018:
President Trump set a record for White House staff turnover in the first year. Here’s an ongoing list of staff who have quit or been fired under trump. (Joyce Koh/Washington Post)
More than three-quarters of the members of a federally chartered board advising the National Park Service have quit out of frustration that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting last year.
The following article by A.P. Joyce was posted on the mic.com website January 12, 2018:
Credit: Shutterstock
This week the media was roiled by the revelation that the president of the United States argued against accepting immigrants from what he reportedly called “shithole countries” in Central America, Africa and the Caribbean, arguing instead for more immigrants from countries like Norway.
The following article by David Weigel, Darryl Fears and John Wagner was posted on the Washington Post website January 10, 2018:
The governors of several coastal states reacted with alarm after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke granted Florida Governor Rick Scott a waiver on Jan. 9. (Reuters)
The Trump administration’s decision to exempt Florida from expanded offshore drilling kicked off a frenzy Wednesday in other coastal states, with governors from both political parties asking: Why not us?
