Zinke loads Interior with former oil-and-gas employees

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is stocking the Interior Department with staffers who’ve spent years working for the extractive energy industry, suggesting an agency increasingly less friendly toward public-lands conservation, says Western Values Project, a progressive advocacy organization. Twenty-one of the known hires have a background in resource extraction, while only three are from “conservation, outdoor… » Read More

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