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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/ryan-zinke-accuses-deep-state/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/ryan-zinke-accuses-deep-state/</a></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">United States Congressman Ryan Zinke (R-Montana) delivered a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday in which he proclaimed that a "deep state" along with "liberals" are engaged in a sinister agenda targeting himself and other conservatives.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Prior to his election to Congress in the November 2022 midterms, Zinke served as secretary of the interior under former President Donald Trump. He resigned in December 2018 amid a flurry of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081180054/ryan-zinke-interior-investigation-ig-report" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">ethics scandals</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://rollcall.com/2018/12/15/amid-corruption-charges-zinke-is-leaving-as-interior-secretary/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">suspicions of corruption</a>.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Nonetheless, on Tuesday, Zinke declared himself a victim of a vast conspiracy and endorsed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-California) proposal to create a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/politics/house-republicans-fbi-investigation.html" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">subcommittee tasked with investigating various federal agencies</a>&nbsp;that have open inquiries into Trump.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/msn/kevin-mccarthy-2659094838/" target="self" title="view post: Paul Krugman: House Republicans’ economics are as 'divorced from reality' as their election lies" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Paul Krugman: House Republicans’ economics are as 'divorced from reality' as their election lies</a></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"Mister Speaker, I rise today in support of a select committee to investigate the weaponization of the federal government,</span>&nbsp;something I have a lot of experience firsthand. I proudly served as the fifty-second secretary of interior, and&nbsp;<b>despite the deep state's repeatedly attempts to stop me</b>, I stand before you as a duly elected member of the United States Congress and<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;tell you that a deep state exists and it is perhaps the strongest covert weapon the left has against the American people,"</b>&nbsp;Zinke said.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"There is no doubt the federal government</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;deep state coordinates with liberal activists and uses politicians and willing media to carry their water. The deep state runs secret messaging campaigns with one goal in mind – to increase its power to censor and persuade the American people.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Dark money groups, funded by liberal billionaires and foreign investors, funnel money to shell organizations&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and repeatedly attempt to destroy the American West</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">They want to wipe out the American cowboy completely,</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;remove public access to our lands, and turn Montana into a national park. They want to control our land and our lifestyle,"</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Zinke alleged before claiming that he amassed so-called evidence from a right-wing non-profit.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Mister Speaker," Zinke added, "I'd like to submit a five-part series of investigative articles by the&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Capitol Research Center</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;entitled,</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-kania-19301511_arabellas-long-war-keep-it-in-the-ground-activity-6866114510109974528--tk/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Arabella's Long War Keep It in the Ground</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">into the congressional record."</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Watch below or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/ryan-zinke-accuses-deep-state" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">at this link</a>.</p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">wtf?!&nbsp; lied to IG</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/2022/11/10/zinke-wins-race-for-montanas-western-u-s-house-district/">
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</div><div>Ryan Zinke, Republican candidate for Montana's western U.S. House district, attends a police ride-along in Browning on Oct. 14 Credit: Arren Kimbel-Sannit / Montana Free Press</div><div>
</div><div>Republican Ryan Zinke has won the race to represent Montana’s&nbsp;<b>newly created western U.S. House district.&nbsp;</b></div><div>
</div><div>With all precincts reported, Zinke received 120,285 votes. Energy attorney Monica Tranel, a Missoula Democrat, received 112,271 votes, four points behind Zinke. John Lamb, a Norris farmer running on the Libertarian ticket, came in third with<b>&nbsp;9,304 votes.</b>&nbsp;Zinke declared victory Wednesday night, and the Associated Press called the race for him Thursday morning.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>“I’m incredibly grateful to the people of Western Montana for once again placing their trust in me to fight for them in Washington, D.C.,” Zinke said in a statement Wednesday night. “The voters saw through the vicious lies and deceit of my opponents and radical political groups. Truth matters, and now it’s time to fight for freedom and protect our way of life in Montana.”</div><div>
</div><div>Montana's Western Congressional District (MT-01)</div><div>Based on the 2022 general election results available at 8:41 a.m. 11/10/22.</div><div>RYAN K ZINKE leading by 8,014 votes of 241,861 counted (+3%).</div><div>Votes in county-level victory margin</div><div>[map]</div><div>Ryan Zinke (R)</div><div>Monica Tranel (D)</div><div>Libertarian John Lamb was also on the ballot.</div><div>
</div><div>In a tearful Thursday morning speech in front of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library in Missoula, Tranel, bundled in a heavy coat as snow fell, conceded, thanking her supporters and pledging to continue fighting for the state.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>“I shall do so not in the 118th U.S. Congress, but I will serve the people of Montana as I have done my entire career, as your advocate, as your neighbor, as a forever champion of the Montana that I know, I love and I believe in still,” Tranel said.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Zinke will soon be the first person to represent the western U.S. House district. The state had two districts until the 1990 U.S. census, when it was relegated to a single at-large district. Montana regained its second congressional district following the 2020 census count.</div><div>
</div><div>What else you need to know:</div><div>Secretary of State appeals rulings that struck down new election laws</div><div>11.23.2022</div><div>Forest Service turns back Holland Lake proposal, for now</div><div>11.23.2022</div><div>The resignation that wasn’t</div><div>11.23.2022</div><div>The western district, as drawn by the state Districting and Apportionment Commission, includes 16 counties and two Native American reservations. Republican former President Donald Trump would have carried the district by 7 points in 2020. Tranel outperformed Democratic President Joe Biden in the district, but ultimately could not drive enough votes her way to upset Zinke, who has been considered the favorite since declaring his candidacy in the primary.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>RELATED</div><div>The Zinke, Tranel (and Lamb) show</div><div>Ryan Zinke and Monica Tranel are the two main contenders for Montana’s new western U.S. House district. The presence of Libertarian John Lamb and Zinke’s long, variable record in government could make things complicated.</div><div>by Arren Kimbel-Sannit</div><div>10.26.2022]</div><div>
</div><div>It was arguably the state’s highest profile race this year, as Montana Democrats looked to improve on a dismal showing in 2020 and send one of their own to Congress for the first time since longtime representative Pat Williams retired in 1997.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>Zinke raised more than $6 million, more than double the $2.8 million Tranel brought in.&nbsp;</b>Lamb did not file campaign finance paperwork, saying he did not raise or spend enough to cross federal reporting thresholds.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The voters saw through the&nbsp;<b>vicious lies and deceit of my opponents and radical&nbsp;</b>political groups. Truth matters, and now it’s time to<b>&nbsp;fight for freedom and protect our way of life in Montana.”</b></span></div><div>U.S. REP. RYAN ZINKE</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zinke, a former Navy SEAL from Whitefish, began his political career as a state legislator in 2009. He was elected to Montana’s at-large House district in 2014, and then again in 2016. Shortly after being elected to his second term, Zinke joined the cabinet of President Donald Trump as Interior Secretary, a tumultuous period that generated 18 federal investigations into Zinke’s ethics and decision making before his resignation in 2018. Trump endorsed Zinke’s run this cycle.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The former congressman’s time in the Trump administration has colored much of his campaign, both in terms of policy and his&nbsp;<b>contempt for the “deep state” that he says stood in his way during his tenure as Interior Secretary.&nbsp;</b></div><div>
</div><div>He has trumpeted his record as a booster of domestic energy protection — which he achieved in part by expanding oil and gas leasing on public lands — and has said the first piece of legislation he will introduce is the s<b>o-called FEAR Act, a proposal to make it easier to fire federal employees.&nbsp;</b>If Republicans take the U.S. House — which, despite a few outstanding races, seems likely — Zinke has said the party needs to use its appropriations power to hamstring the Biden administration and cut federal spending.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“We’re just gonna take the money away so they can’t buy a piece of paper, let alone hiring the Department of Environmental Justice in the EPA,</span>” he said at an October campaign event in Ravalli County.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>Tranel, a former Olympic rower, entered electoral politics with a Republican run for the Public Service Commission in 2004, but has since switched parties, running as a Democrat for the commission in 2020 and then for Congress this year</b>. Citing her legal work serving the office of Montana Consumer Counsel, challenging NorthWestern Energy before the PSC and representing renewable energy projects, Tranel has presented herself as an anti-corporatist litigator and a foil to Zinke, who took consulting work in the oil and gas sector after leaving federal office.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Monica Tranel</div><div>Democrat Monica Tranel conceded the race for Montana’s western U.S. House district to Ryan Zinke on Thursday, Nov. 10, in Missoula. Credit: Screenshot for Tranel Instagram feed]</div><div>
</div><div><b>Much of her campaign focused on attacking Zinke’s record at Interior, which included a recent finding by a Trump-appointed inspector general that he misled investigators about a Whitefish land deal connected to a Halliburton executive, and his general coziness with the fossil fuel industry against the backdrop of climate change.&nbsp;</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Even in admitting defeat, Tranel still had her sights set on her opponent.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“The fact of the election does not erase the corruption of Ryan Zinke,” she said Thursday.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>Lamb, the Libertarian, unsuccessfully ran for state Senate in 2020. He first found a public platform as a supporter of the Bundy family</b>&nbsp;during the series of federal trials arising from the 2016 Malheur standoff. A father of 12 raised in an Amish-Mennonite community in Indiana, Lamb made reducing the role of the federal government in just about every aspect of American life a core tenet of his campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>Even with his connections to the far-right Bundys and his avowedly hard-line anti-abortion views, he found a welcoming campaign companion in Tranel, generating concern among Republicans that he could play a spoiler to Zinke by peeling off Republican votes. The two attended numerous candidate forums together, and the Montana Democratic Party lauded Lamb’s campaign, writing in an October release that Lamb was “connecting with voters across the district, sharing his story as a father of 12 and a small business owner.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Outside PACs presumably interested in boosting Tranel’s chances</b>&nbsp;also presented Lamb as a more principled conservative alternative to Zinke, who began his career in the Legislature as a relative moderate.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>Zinke will return to Congress alongside fellow Republican Matt Rosendale,</b>&nbsp;who handily won his race in the state’s eastern district. Zinke will now travel to Washington for new member orientation and to receive committee assignments, his team said.</div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/3/22, 1:53 PM The Favor Factory - Center for American Progress</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-favor-factory/ 1/24</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>REPORT AUG 27, 2018</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TheFavorFactory</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PresidentTrump’s Interior DepartmentIsBenefitingPast</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political Donors andLobbying Clients</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A culture of corruption in President Donald Trump’s Interior Department may be resulting in</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lucrative rewards for the political patrons and past clients of Secretary Ryan Zinke, Deputy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary David Bernhardt, and other senior Trump administration officials.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Introduction and summary</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On August 3, 2017, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spent his afternoon and evening</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>with David Lesar, the chairman of oil services giant Halliburton</b>. The two men met in</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marc Rehmann</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke swears in David Bernhardt as the deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior, August 1, 2017. (U.S. Department of the Interior)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/3/22, 1:53 PM The Favor Factory - Center for American Progress</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-favor-factory/ 2/24</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke’s lavish Interior Department offices, toured the Lincoln Memorial together, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">then had dinner at a popular Washington, D.C., beer garden.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The details of Zinke and Lesar’s conversations are not yet known, but according to a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">participant in the day’s meetings, the main topic was not energy policy or oil production</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">but instead a<b>&nbsp;real estate deal in Whitefish, Montana, that would reportedly deliver</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>private financial benefits to both men.&nbsp;</b>The real estate deal; Zinke’s alleged use of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">public office for personal financial gain; and the question of whether Halliburton has</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">improperly benefited from Lesar’s financial ties to Zinke have rightly attracted the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scrutiny of watchdog groups, congressional investigators, and Interior’s inspector</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">general.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both Zinke and Lesar have acknowledged the real estate deal and meeting in the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">secretary’s office, and they have dismissed any wrongdoings. However, the emerging</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scandal may be part of a string of questionable decisions rather than an isolated</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">incident. The Center for American Progress reviewed financial and lobbying disclosure</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">forms of Trump administration officials, as well as Interior Department decisions,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">media reports, and other government records. The findings indicate that President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump’s Interior Department may be establishing a standard of behavior that</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hands out favorable decisions—which may carry substantial financial benefits—to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">political patrons and past clients of senior political appointees in the Department of the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior (DOI). In some cases, by doing so, the department has dismissed ethical</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">norms.&nbsp;<b>This pattern of behavior mirrors the culture of corruption that has taken root in</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>President Trump’s White House, at former Administrator Scott Pruitt’s Environmental</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Protection Agency, and in other Trump administration cabinet agencies.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke’s own behaviors and actions—from his real estate deal with Lesar to his mixing of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">political, personal, and government business on taxpayer-funded trips—create an</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ethically questionable culture within the Department of the Interior’s leadership. Yet it</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">is Zinke’s deputy secretary, David Bernhardt—previously a lobbyist on issues he now</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oversees—who appears to be a central figure in a carefully constructed clientelistic</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">system for dispensing political favors. The authors of this report characterize this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">system as the Interior Department’s “favor factory.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bernhardt, who led then-President-elect Trump’s transition team for the Department of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the Interior, first served in the Interior Department as a political appointee in the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">administration of former President George W. Bush. He served as senior aide to then</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Interior Secretary Gale Norton before being promoted to serve as the Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Department’s top lawyer.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">As solicitor, Bernhardt authored several controversial legal</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">opinions, including ones that made it more difficult to designate endangered species.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After leaving the department in 2009, Bernhardt rejoined the Washington, D.C., office</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he lobbied for mining companies, oil and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">gas companies, powerful water users in the West, and other groups that have a financial</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">interest in decisions that are made by the Department of the Interior. In August 2017, he</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">was sworn in as Interior’s deputy secretary.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This report will explore three notable features of the favor factory at the Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department. First, it will examine how Trump administration political appointees at the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Department can exploit weakened federal ethics guidelines to work in positions</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">where they can deliver favorable decisions to past clients and mask their portfolio of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">responsibilities from public inspection. Second, it will analyze recent Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department decisions that are favorable to past clients of former lobbyists and litigants</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">who are working in Trump’s Department of the Interior. Finally, the report will examine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">some of the operational characteristics of the Interior Department’s favor factory that</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mask it from public view.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This report does not make any claims that Trump administration officials at the Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department have violated any federal laws or regulations; rather, it describes the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">contours of what is currently known and not known about the Trump administration’s</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">practices at the Department of the Interior. For example, the report lists four past</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">clients of Deputy Secretary Bernhardt who have received or stand to receive financial</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">benefits from specific decisions by the Trump administration’s Interior Department.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These decisions merit scrutiny by congressional investigators in order to determine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">whether they were made in accordance with federal ethics and conflict of interest</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">statutes and regulations. In addition, the report includes a “watch list,” which details</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">other past clients of Bernhardt who have significant policy and business interests before</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Interior Department. Congressional oversight committees should carefully monitor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the deputy secretary’s engagement on these matters in order to ensure compliance with</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">his recusals and ethics agreement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The importance of strong congressional oversight of the Trump administration’s</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Department cannot be overstated. The DOI Office of the Inspector General</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(OIG) and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel have already opened 11 investigations of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary Zinke’s actions, yet the 115th Congress has failed to hold a single hearing on</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">possible ethical lapses by political appointees in Trump’s Interior Department. This</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">failure by the Republican-led Congress to hold the executive branch accountable raises</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the risk that the Interior Department will once again endure the kind of scandal,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scientific misconduct, and ethical violations that consumed the department during the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George W. Bush administration. To avoid this outcome, congressional oversight</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">committees should immediately begin to gather additional information, to request</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">records, and to conduct interviews that can illuminate the operation of Interior’s favor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">factory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to conducting its oversight responsibilities, Congress should take legislative</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">action to tighten ethics standards and to strengthen enforcement of conflict of interest</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">laws. In particular, CAP recommends that Congress:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Enacting these standards and conducting rigorous independent oversight will</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">strengthen the public’s trust in the Department of the Interior, safeguard the country’s</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">public lands from special interests, and ensure that the agency’s decisions are made in a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">manner that serves the public interest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TheTrumpadministration’s weakenedethics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">policies</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upon taking office in 2009, then-President Barack Obama issued sweeping ethics and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">revolving door restrictions to be imposed on officials seeking to serve in his</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">administration. His executive order was largely inspired by ethical lapses that defined</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Bush administration’s Department of the Interior, including allegations of financial</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">self-dealing, meddling with scientific findings, and the aftermath of the Jack Abramoff</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scandal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[x]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strengthen formal ethics standards for individuals working in the executive</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">branch.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strengthen the Lobbying Disclosure Act by amending it to require lobbyists to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">provide more detailed information when filling out disclosure forms.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Increase funding for Interior’s Office of the Inspector General in order to ensure</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">proper oversight of the department.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Require better records retention policies within the Interior Department and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">modernize the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On January 28, 2017, President Donald Trump signed his own executive order on ethics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At first glance, it appears that the order is complementary to Obama’s ambitions to curb</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">conflicts of interests within the administration. Both executive orders include</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“reverse revolving door” restrictions on those entering an administration: All</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">appointees must pledge to recuse themselves from official actions that would directly</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and substantially affect their former employers or clients of the last two years.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, Trump’s executive order removed a critical provision: banning individuals</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">from seeking or accepting employment with any executive agency that they lobbied</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">within the previous two years. David Bernhardt—who, until 2017, worked as a lobbyist</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and chairman for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s natural resources department—</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">was among the individuals who benefited from Trump’s elimination of the two-year</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lobbying ban. Bernhardt now serves as deputy secretary of the Interior. The removal of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Obama-era provision allows people like Bernhardt, who have years of experience in</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the private and public sectors, to be able to oversee policies at the Department of the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior that could benefit former clients.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Trump’s order also differs from Obama’s in two other important ways. First,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">it fails to clearly state who is charged with overseeing that mandated recusals take</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">place. Unlike the Obama administration, Trump has failed to appoint an “ethics czar” or</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">to implement a procedure ensuring all potential conflicts of interests are understood by</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">newly appointed officials. Secondly, while both orders include exception waivers for</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">some individuals, Trump’s removes a transparency provision that allows the public to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">know who has received such waivers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The favor factory delivers for former clients</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and political donors</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary Zinke’s eagerness to take actions that benefit political patrons and personal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">friends sets a negative example for other senior Interior Department officials, who may</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in turn follow his lead. Zinke’s subordinates, for example, might interpret the Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary’s questionable business interactions with the chairman of Halliburton as a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sign that it is permissible to blur the line between official business and one’s personal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">financial gain. Likewise, Zinke’s decision to take a private chartered flight after giving a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">speech to the Vegas Golden Knights hockey team—which is owned by a political donor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">to Zinke’s past congressional campaign—might suggest to Interior Department officials</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">that government resources can be used to reward political campaign supporters. In fact,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">many political pundits consider unethical behavior at top to be contagious. The</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Department’s inspector general found that the trip, which cost taxpayers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">upwards of $12,000 and did not relate to the department’s business, “could have been</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">avoided.” Furthermore, although the Trump administration’s Interior Department has</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">made numerous decisions that financially benefit the hunting and gun industries,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary Zinke’s failed to disclose that he was a shareholder in a firearms company,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, the Department of the Interior’s culture now reflects Zinke’s poor example, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">senior political appointees appear to be permitted to work on policy matters that could</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">benefit former clients and employers. These close personal and professional</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">connections to senior Interior Department officials may allow former employers to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">have direct access to decision-makers that the average citizen does not have. For</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">example:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Interior Department’s recent handling of American Indian gaming decisions is also</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">illuminating. In 2017, the department signaled that it would approve, through its normal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">process, an application by two tribal nations in Connecticut—the Mashantucket Pequot</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and Mohegan tribes—to build a new casino. MGM Resorts, however, which is building</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">its own casino nearby in Massachusetts, opposes the tribes’ plans. In early September</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2017, lobbyists for MGM Resorts and one of its lobbying firms, Ballard Partners, joined</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary Zinke for drinks on his balcony. Two weeks later, the Interior Department</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">said that it would not approve the tribes’ casino proposal. Records also show that</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Deputy Secretary Bernhardt and Associate Deputy Secretary James Cason had</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">numerous meetings with MGM’s lobbyists, including former Interior Secretary Gale</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norton. Though Bernhardt has brushed off the meeting with Norton as merely a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“social visit,” his former lobbying firm also represents MGM, and per his ethics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">agreement, he is barred from participating in particular matters with which he was</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">involved while working for his previous employer. When asked by reporters, both</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cason and Interior Department spokespersons declined to comment on the informal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">meetings with MGM. After media reports emerged about Zinke, Bernhardt, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cason’s apparent intervention on behalf of MGM Resorts, the Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department allowed the gaming proposal from the Mohegan tribe to move forward—</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The department’s senior deputy director for intergovernmental and external</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">affairs,&nbsp;<b>Benjamin Cassidy, is a former National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbyist</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and has since participated in a number of positive decisions for his former</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">employer of seven years.</span>&nbsp;In one example, according to Secretary Zinke’s public</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">calendar, Cassidy participated in a “Monument After Action Meeting” in December</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2017, about two weeks after the Trump administration eliminated huge portions of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Earlier that</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">year as an NRA lobbyist, Cassidy lobbied on a bill that would have prevented</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">presidents from designating national monuments without approval from Congress</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and state legislatures. Cassidy has not responded to media requests about these</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">reports.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Doug Domenech, assistant secretary of the interior for insular areas, met with his</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>former employer, the Koch-linked Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), while</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>the company was involved in legal action against the department.</b>&nbsp;Six months after</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">their meeting, TPPF announced that it had settled its lawsuit with the Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department, calling it a “major win.” The Interior Department insists that the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">meetings were “primarily social in nature”; however, public scheduling calendars</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">show they concerned policy. Domenech reported the meetings to ethics officials,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and the department is addressing the matter internally, according to an Interior</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department spokesperson.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke’s senior adviser for Alaska Affairs, Steve Wackowski, was formerly employed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by two Alaska companies now tied to a group that is seeking DOI approval to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">conduct seismic studies for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Refuge. Wackowski has not commented on media reports on this topic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>By&nbsp;</div><div>Chris D'Angelo</div><div><b>Jul 16, 2018</b>,&nbsp;</div><div>|</div><div>Updated Jul 18, 2018</div><div>Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, with his wife, Lolita Zinke, addresses an NRA forum in Atlanta, April 28, 2017. Ethics officials say Benjamin Cassidy, a former NRA lobbyist appointed to the Interior Department last year, likely violated ethics rules.</div><div>
</div><div>Ben Cassidy, who left a high-paying lobbying gig at the National Rifle Association last year for a powerful post at the Interior Department, appears to have played a sizable role in getting the agency’s wildlife conservation board off the ground, even though one of his former colleagues is a member of the advisory council.</div><div>
</div><div>The Interior Department hosted a pair of private receptions for members of the&nbsp;<b>International Wildlife Conservation Council before its first public meeting in March. Not only did Cassidy attend those events, but he also served as members’ primary contact during their two-day visit to Washington, according to newly released public records.</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke created the council last year and stacked it with gun and trophy hunting advocates, including Erica Rhoad, the director of hunting policy at the NRA, and retired Oklahoma congressman and former NRA board member Bill Brewster</b>. The 16-member board is tasked with advising the agency chief about “the benefits that international recreational hunting has on foreign wildlife and habitat conservation, anti-poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking programs.”</div><div>
</div><div>HuffPost reported this month on Cassidy’s apparent violations of President Donald Trump’s ethics pledge, which for two years bars former lobbyists in the executive branch from participating in matters on which they lobbied. The pledge also prohibits appointees from participating “in any particular matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to my former employer or former clients.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Cassidy was appointed as Interior’s senior deputy director for intergovernmental and external affairs in October, after nearly seven years as an NRA lobbyist. In 2017 alone, he lobbied Congress on a slew of legislative proposals that would have directly affected the agency he now works for, including bills dealing with trophy imports, revising the Endangered Species Act and international conservation grants for elephants, tigers, apes and other threatened animals, according to lobbying disclosure reports.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In early February, a little more than a month before the council’s first meeting, Cassidy and several other Interior officials joined agency chief Ryan Zinke in his office for a briefing on international conservation — a discussion that almost certainly focused on hunting and trophy imports. It’s one of two meetings that have drawn scrutiny from ethics officials.</span></div><div>
</div><div>That Cassidy appears to have acted as a liaison for the International Wildlife Conservation Council is another potential conflict of interest, said Virginia Canter, the chief ethics counsel at&nbsp;<b>Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</b>, a government watchdog group based in the capital.</div><div>
</div><div>“It does raise red flags,” she said.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The documents, released this month in response to a public records request from environmental nonprofit Sierra Club, show that Cassidy was a primary contact for a two-hour afternoon reception with Zinke on March 15, as well as a coffee event the following morning with Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt. Both private events were held at the agency’s headquarters.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Cassidy and Greg Sheehan, the principal deputy director of the Fish and Wildlife Service,&nbsp;</b>joined advisory council members for dinner at a restaurant on March 15, internal emails show. That gathering was not sponsored by the Interior Department, according to an event schedule.</div><div>
</div><div>Those gatherings preceded the council’s first official meeting on March 16.</div><div>
</div><div>It’s unclear if council members discussed policy issues during the private events or if Cassidy received an ethics waiver or other special authorization to participate.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Cassidy and the Interior Department did not respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment,&nbsp;</b>including questions about whether Cassidy played a role in selecting council members.&nbsp;<b>In a post to Instagram in May, however, celebrity archer and trophy hunter Cameron Hanes thanked Zinke and Cassidy for believing in him and giving him a seat on the council.</b></div><div>
</div><div>A post shared by Cameron Hanes (@cameronrhanes) on May 9, 2018 at 10:30pm PDT</div><div>
</div><div>Hanes has called Cassidy (who is seen in the video below) his “best @usinterior buddy” and “on [sic] of the best guys you’ll meet.”</div><div>
</div><div>A post shared by Cameron Hanes (@cameronrhanes) on Mar 17, 2018 at 5:51pm PDT</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Last year the Interior Department lifted Obama-era bans on importing elephant and lion trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The decision was first made public by&nbsp;<b>Safari Club International</b>, a trophy hunting advocacy group with close ties to Zinke. Along with the NRA, SCI sued to block the 2014 ban on elephant trophies from Zimbabwe.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Facing widespread public backlash, Trump swiftly suspended his administration’s decision.</b>&nbsp;In a post to Twitter, he condemned big-game trophy hunting as a “horror show” and said he’s unlikely to allow such imports. Despite his pledge, the Fish and Wildlife Service issued a formal memo in March that it would consider issuing permits to import elephant and lion trophies from certain African nations on a case-by-case basis.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>SCI President Paul Babaz and several other people currently or previously affiliated with SCI were also appointed to the wildlife council.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Cassidy is one of several top officials at the Interior Department with apparent conflicts of interest.</span></div><div>
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</font></div><div><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">former President Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail with his energy and environmental legacy in tatters.</font></b></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s policies to boost fossil fuel production, roll back environmental standards and stymie international climate action largely have not survived, less than two years after the Republican left the White House. Some were unwound by President Joe Biden, others tossed by the courts and a few nixed by Congress.</font></b></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But in announcing his third run for president Tuesday, Trump returned to his familiar rhetoric on climate.&nbsp;</b>Namely: ridiculing efforts to reduce planet-warming emissions from oil and gas production, which scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.&nbsp; &nbsp;“T<b>he Green New Deal and the environment, which they say may affect us in 300 years, is all that is talked about,</b>” Trump said, inaccurately describing the timeline for climate impacts, which are already occurring. “<b>They say the ocean will rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries.”</b></font></span></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump accused Biden of ignoring the threat of nuclear war with Russia, predicted gasoline prices would rise</b>&nbsp;and argued that the country would be better off if his own energy policies were still in place. By focusing on climate policies,&nbsp;<b>Biden “has intentionally surrendered our energy independence,” Trump said.</b></font></span></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s rhetoric dismissing the value of any climate action matches how his administration governed, according to experts. He sought to undermine U.S. climate action in general — and unwind the policies of President Barack Obama, who many Republican voters blamed for killing coal jobs.</font></span></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“For the Trump administration, their regulatory agenda was overwhelmingly negative. And that really was a departure [from past Republican presidents],” said Philip Wallach, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.</font></b></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The administration of former President George W. Bush, for instance, wanted to implement market-based systems to achieve some environmental protections, he said.</font></span></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They had an agenda,” he said. By contrast, “the Trump agenda really was overwhelmingly: Roll back Obama regs.”</font></span></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump enters the 2024 campaign as the favorite for the GOP nomination. He’s not a lock, and some Republicans are already turning to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But some observers think that’s a distinction without a difference. Trump’s influence over the Republican Party is evident in how his challengers have sought to frame themselves: Trumpism without Trump.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Would it be terribly different under DeSantis? Not necessarily,</b>” said Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. “The two have different styles, but substantively they don’t seem that far apart.”</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s influence over climate policy isn’t totally gone. His appointees continue to constrain Biden’s actions. The Supreme Court is the most dramatic example, where Trump appointed three of the six justices who voted in&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>West Virginia v. EPA</b></span>&nbsp;to limit the federal government’s authority to regulate carbon pollution from power plants.</font></span></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With 234 confirmed judges, Trump reshaped the entire federal judiciary to be more hostile to climate action. That’s already had implications for Biden’s policies. It was a Trump appointee — Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana — who first ordered Biden to resume leasing federal lands and waters for fossil fuel development (<a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2021/06/16/federal-judge-overturns-oil-leasing-freeze-in-blow-to-biden-000598" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Energywire</u></i></a>, June 16, 2021).</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump appointees still matter outside the judiciary, too. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may soon lose its chair — and Democratic majority — leaving Trump’s two Republican appointees in a deadlock with the commission’s remaining two Democrats</b>. Chair Richard Glick, a Democrat, is set to leave by the end of the year after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) blocked his reconfirmation over climate disputes. That could hamstring Biden’s renewable energy agenda (<a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2022/11/11/manchin-ferc-shakeup-may-stymie-bidens-clean-energy-plans-00066260" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Energywire</u></span></a>,&nbsp;Nov. 11).</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But few of Trump’s climate policies remain intact.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biden tightened Trump’s lax vehicle pollution standards, one of the most consequential U.S. climate regulations. He rejoined the Paris climate agreement. And he’s made it more difficult for new fossil fuel development on federal lands.</font></span></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate voted to strike down Trump’s loosening of methane pollution rules under the Congressional Review Act.</b>&nbsp;And a week after Trump left office, a judge struck down EPA’s “secret science” rule — one of several conservative attempts to constrain federal rulemaking itself.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That rule would have constrained regulators from considering studies that haven’t published their raw data. The Trump administration also sought to exclude some benefits of air regulation from consideration (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/trumps-cost-benefit-rule-under-fire-as-epa-mulls-revamp/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greenwire</u></span></a>,&nbsp;June 9, 2021). Critics also saw Trump’s move of the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction, Colo., as an effort to cull federal workers.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans likely will continue to focus their ire on the federal workforce.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, newly elected as a Republican representative for Montana,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;has already signaled that he wants to rein in federal workers.</span></font></b></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s a prominent focus for Republicans, said Wallach of AEI, because they<b>&nbsp;see the secret to making agencies more GOP-friendly is “somehow getting a handle on the deep state.”</b></font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“That’s definitely going to be of big interest in another Trump administration,” he said, “but probably in a DeSantis administration — or whoever — as well.”</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mojo 2014</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hill’s angels</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Hillary is a tool of the Dark Lord Lucifer sent to oppose Jesus Christ in the Last Days.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rumormonger: Montana Republican congressional candidate Ryan Zinke, who called Clinton the “anti-Christ” at a January campaign event.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rubber stamp sgamma WEA: 13 of 15 asks (donor to his campaign)</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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The original conservation plan was implemented two years ago after extensive work and collaboration by a bipartisan group of Western stakeholders, including federal, state and local governments, as well as ranchers, farmers, sports groups, conservationists and industry representatives.</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: none; margin: 1.5em 0px 55px; padding: 0px 30px; position: relative; line-height: 2em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This order is another reckless decision made by special interests and Washington politicians behind closed doors – it is a clear giveaway to industry that undermines years of work by Western governors, communities and stakeholders,”&nbsp;<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">said Chris Saeger, Executive Director of the Western Values Project.</b>&nbsp;“These irresponsible changes will not only put this species at risk, but will jeopardize access to public lands and the outdoor economy that Western communities rely on. Secretary Zinke’s careless plan ignores bipartisan, science based results, and could well fast-track the greater sage-grouse’s listing as an endangered species.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 2em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background:</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After years of work and cooperation by federal agencies, Western states and diverse stakeholders, a plan was released in 2015 to conserve habitat for the greater sage-grouse to avoid listing the bird under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service specifically&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/02/2015-24292/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-12-month-finding-on-a-petition-to-list-greater" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">cited</a>&nbsp;habitat preservation as the reason for removing the bird from consideration.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);">This year,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Republican Governor of Wyoming Matt Mead&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);">and Democratic Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper sent&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/04/donald-trump-greater-sage-grouse-ryan-zinke/" style="background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">two letters</a><span style="background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);">&nbsp;to Secretary Zinke opposing changes to the plan. Neither letter has received a public response from the Secretary.</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Western Governors met with Secretary Zinke behind closed doors at their annual Western Governors Association meeting about the imperiled bird. Again,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/06/27/stories/1060056650" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">urging</a>&nbsp;the Secretary not to make wholesale changes to the plans. Those requests where ignored.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Listing the bird under the Endangered Species Act would result in numerous lawsuits from both sides of the issue, and prohibit development across a wide swath of public land.</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">renta tom crypto:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Pew Research poll published in January showed that 56 percent of Hispanics and 54 percent of blacks opposed offshore drilling, compared to 48 percent of white people.</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Interior Department in January announced a proposal to open up nearly all U.S. offshore waters to drilling, triggering a backlash from coastal states that rely on tourism.</font></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Secretary&nbsp;<b>Ryan Zinke</b>&nbsp;told a Senate panel in April that he is likely to scale back the proposal following meetings with coastal governors. Shortly after he unveiled his offshore drilling proposal, Zinke offered an exemption for Florida after he held a private meeting with Republican Governor Rick Scott.</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The API campaign published op-eds in local newspapers this week, including one by Stephen Gilchrist, chair of South Carolina’s African American Chamber of Commerce. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="authors" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eenews.net/staff/Michael_Doyle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;">Michael Doyle</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eenews.net/gw" class="publication gw" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold;">Greenwire</a></span>&nbsp;<time datetime="2019-08-29 13:58:30 -0400" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">Thursday, August 29, 2019</time></p></section><section class="excerpt" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">Several impending Interior Department departures will mark the continued thinning out of the political appointees who arrived under former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.</p></section></font></span></font></font></font></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">damage persists</font></font></font></font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/federal-judge-slaps-down-trumps-giveaway-to-the-coal-industry/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/federal-judge-slaps-down-trumps-giveaway-to-the-coal-industry/</a></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Th</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ank God for Team Trump’s hard-right incompetence, because it’s difficult to imagine how much damage they could do if they weren’t stumblebums. A federal judge has ruled that<b>&nbsp;ex-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s order to lift a moratorium on coal leases on public lands</b>&nbsp;needs to go through the environmental review process required by longstanding federal law, even if Zinke and his replacement(s) really, really&nbsp;<a title="" href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060196337" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">didn’t feel like bothering with it</a>.</font></font></font></p></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx kos</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">it&nbsp;’s rare when the findings on an environmental problem are this definitive. With shifting climate conditions and all the other aspects of human activity and how it impacts the biosphere, sharp population declines can take animals and plants to the brink of extinction and still leave scientists scratching their heads over what went wrong. That’s what makes the Interior Department analysis of the pesticides malathion and chlorpyrifos such a victory—and what happened next such a horror show.</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York Times reports that the two pesticides were found to be such a threat that they “jeopardized the continued existence” of not just a few species, but over 1,200 species, ranging from tiny fish to colorful birds to kit foxes. The pesticides are a potent cocktail for disaster, and the Fish and Wildlife Service spent years putting together an airtight case that the two had to be banned to avoid massive ecological disaster.&nbsp;</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The findings were set to become public at the end of 2017. But then … they didn’t. Instead, Donald Trump inserted industry lobbyist David Bernhardt as deputy secretary of the interior. Bernhardt blocked the release of the information, announced new rules narrowing the means by which Fish and Wildlife could evaluate the data, and sent the whole study back to square one—not just wiping out years of work, but putting hundreds of species and whole ecosystems at risk of collapse.</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For his work in assisting the pesticide industry, Bernhardt is now on track for a promotion. He is Trump’s new nominee to be the next secretary of the interior, and his confirmation hearing is coming up on Thursday. Bernhardt would replace Ryan Zinke, who abruptly left his position after a series of scandals. It may not seem possible, but Bernhardt is worse. As the Natural Resources Defense Council explains, this isn’t Bernhardt’s first go-round in Washington. He’s a top predator in the lobbyist swamp, having spent more than 20 years on every aspect of ruining public lands from opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refugee to oil drilling, to putting snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park.</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And it will come as absolutely no surprise that Dow, the company behind chlorpyrifos, donated $1 million to Trump’s shady inaugural committee.</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Since Trump’s crew took over, Dow has been a regular visitor at both the EPA and the Interior Department.</b>&nbsp;The changes in the way pesticides are being treated that Bernhardt put in place didn’t originate with Bernhardt. They are exactly what Dow requested.</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Dow and other pesticide manufacturers were aware of the study when Trump came into office. They followed up their fat contributions with letters to Zinke at Interior, Scott Pruitt at EPA, and Wilbur Ross at Commerce, asking all of them to “set aside” the findings</b>. Zinke was still interior secretary when the regulations were turned back, but it was Bernhardt who put his name to the policy changes and tossed a study that would have dealt with a massive ecological threat that will now continue for years.</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since taking office, Trump has made hundreds of vague and unsupported statements about how America’s water was “cleaner than ever” and how the country had “moved to the top of the charts” on the environment. Trump continues to produce these nonsensical statements, pulled from the so-so-clean streams of his nether regions, even as he lifts bans on pollution from fracking, allows mines to fill streams and rivers with waste, and leaves a rapidly ticking time bomb of pesticides in place.</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></div></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Combs, Trump’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/nominations-sent-senate/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">nominee</a>&nbsp;to be assistant secretary of the Interior, is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-christie/grifters-weaklings-felons-christie-on-the-trump-white-house-idUSKCN1PB02L" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">just one of the grifters</a>&nbsp;in the Trump administration.</font></font></font></p><div class="p5_9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross spent much of his first year in office as a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/08/06/new-details-about-wilbur-rosss-businesses-point-to-pattern-of-grifting/#4d9edff81c33" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">business partner with the Chinese government</a>&nbsp;even as he negotiated U.S.-China trade relations.<b>&nbsp;Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke started a foundation that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/ryan-zinke-halliburton-park-whitefish-montana-647731" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">helped</a>&nbsp;a developer backed by the chairman of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.halliburton.com/en-US/default.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Halliburton,</a>&nbsp;the oil -services firm that could benefit from Interior decisions.</b></font></font></font></p></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dingdong</font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>wHITEFISH, Mont. — Ryan Zinke likes to tout his fifth-generation Montana roots. On his first day as Donald Trump’s Interior secretary, in 2017, the tall, boot-clad ex-Navy Seal famously galloped to work on horseback in blue jeans and a black cowboy hat. This past June, when Zinke kicked off a new congressional campaign, he cruised on the back of a Harley Davidson through some of the state’s most picturesque backdrops, from Glacier National Park to Billings, Montana’s largest city. His wife, Lolita, documented the tour on Instagram with the hashtag #Montanalife.</div><div>
</div><div>“I grew up in Montana, where if someone’s barn is on fire, you don’t ask whether he’s Republican or Democrat,” Zinke told a local TV station after filing his campaign paperwork in April. “What I care about is: Do you love your country, and do we want to improve our conditions for others around us in Montana?”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Zinke, 59, right now appears to be the leading candidate to represent Montana’s newly designated 2nd congressional district. He has Trump’s endorsement and strong name recognition. But his opponents have seized on a weak point for a politician running as a son of Montana.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Photos published on Lolita Zinke’s Instagram account capture scenes from the Zinkes’ life in Montana — at the Snowfrog Inn in Whitefish, the Great Northern Veterans Peace Park in Whitefish and Glacier National Park. | Lolita Zinke/Instagram</div><div>
</div><div><b>“We really haven’t seen him in Montana,” said Cora Neumann, a Democrat from Bozeman who is one of four candidates running against Zinke so far.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As a candidate, Zinke already has his share of questions to answer: It’s been almost three years since he resigned from the Interior Department amid a series of ethics scandals and federal investigations, some of which were referred to the Department of Justice. But in Montana, perhaps the most acute question now is about exactly where he lives.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>It’s long been known that Zinke splits his time between Whitefish and Santa Barbara, California, where his wife owns property and a yacht</b>&nbsp;— a point critics have seized on in his previous congressional races, in 2014 and 2016. And over the past several months, Zinke has conspicuously traveled across Montana, frequently posting photos on his new Instagram account, @zinkeformontana. But when I visited the state over the summer, a half-dozen residents of Whitefish and the closest city, Kalispell, told me that, until Zinke launched his most recent campaign, they hadn’t seen him around much since he left Washington in late 2018.<b>&nbsp;The most recently available FEC data shows Zinke has received campaign donations — about $181,000, as of July — largely from non-Montanans, as well.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Ryan Zinke rides a horse in Utah</div><div>Then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rides a horse in the Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding, Utah, in 2017. | Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP</div><div>
</div><div>Zinke’s political opponents are clearly trying to emphasize the point — “I think it’s pretty obvious when you show up in March with a really killer tan that you haven’t been here for a long time,” said Jennifer Fielder, a Republican former state senator who supports Zinke’s GOP primary challenger — and his wife’s social media has only added fuel to their critique. From late 2018 until spring of this year, when Zinke’s campaign launched, Lolita Zinke’s Instagram feed has featured considerably more photos of her and her husband in Santa Barbara than in Montana. Perhaps more telling is when the photos were posted: Her account documents the Zinkes spending holidays in Santa Barbara and quarantining there during the early days of the pandemic. They appear in Montana mostly during the summer months.</div><div>
</div><div>“I don’t think Ryan has been a true Montanan for a very long time,” said Fielder, now a member of the Montana Public Service Commission, a state regulatory agency.</div><div>
</div><div>When I contacted Zinke’s campaign to ask about his residence, I was told he still lives in his hometown of Whitefish, at the address given on his April FEC campaign filing. In July, I flew to Montana and drove to that address, a handsome, two-story, chalet-style home within walking distance of downtown. In 2013, Zinke petitioned the city of Whitefish to let him convert the home he and his wife had built into a bed-and-breakfast; that didn’t happen, but a sign outside still advertises the building as The Snowfrog Inn.</div><div>
</div><div>On a 98-degree day over the summer, there were several cars and trucks parked in the driveway of the building. Exiting the property, Nikita Packard identified herself as Zinke’s son’s 22-year-old girlfriend and told a POLITICO photographer that she lived in the house, but that Zinke did not. Packard did not say where the former secretary resides permanently, and she did not respond to later attempts to confirm details. A former tenant of Zinke’s, who until 2019 lived at a rental property of his next door and who asked not to be named for privacy reasons, described interacting with the Zinkes but said they did not appear to live in the Snowfrog building full-time.</div><div>
</div><div>On his April FEC campaign filing, Zinke lists his address as the site of the Snowfrog Inn in Whitefish, a handsome, two-story, chalet-style home within walking distance of downtown. | Kristine Paulsen for Politico Magazine</div><div>
</div><div>In addition to the Snowfrog Inn, property and business records show that Zinke owns at least three other parcels in Whitefish through LLCs. According to information Zinke disclosed during his first congressional race, at least two Whitefish properties have been used as rentals; another property is open land. Public records also list a lakeside property in nearby Marion, Montana, in Ryan Zinke’s name, but Zinke’s campaign did not cite the plot as his residence and did not respond when asked about the address.</div><div>
</div><div>Speaking on behalf of the campaign, a consultant said the idea that Zinke does not live in Montana is “absurd.” “It’s flat out wrong. All the Pinocchios,” Heather Swift wrote through a Twitter direct message. “He travelled a lot for work and pleasure but he still lived in Montana. It’s not a hard concept.” Swift said Zinke’s permanent residence for years has been the site of the Snowfrog Inn. The former Zinke tenant told me the Snowfrog had been used as a multiunit rental property, and two other Montana sources said they had heard the same. But in comments to POLITICO, the Zinke campaign said one portion of the property had been rented only “briefly” when Zinke was at Interior and that Packard “does not and never has lived at the Zinkes’ home” and was likely visiting Zinke’s son. The campaign did not respond when asked whether Zinke lives at the Snowfrog full-time.</div><div>
</div><div>“Obviously, he travels for some of his business endeavors, as we all do,” said Don “K” Kaltschmidt, a Kalispell resident who chairs the Montana Republican Party and is a friend of the Zinkes. “He’s a Montana resident. … It’s not unusual for Montanans to have, you know, residences outside of the state.”</div><div>
</div><div>Instagram photos of the Zinkes in Santa Barbara</div><div>Photos from Lolita Zinke’s Instagram account capture scenes of the couple in Santa Barbara, California, where Lolita owns property, in 2020 and 2021. | Lolita Zinke/Instagram</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Already, Zinke’s candidacy rests on the hope that Montana voters are willing to overlook some controversy. Although he denies any wrongdoing at Interior, the DOJ has not officially completed its work. And there is a chance Zinke still could benefit from the business deal at the center of one investigation: A sale is pending on the plot of land around which the deal was focused, and a planned development could raise Zinke’s property values in the vicinity.</span></div><div>
</div><div>As Zinke wades back into national politics and tries to get back to Washington, the question is how much — or whether — his scandals will matter in the congressional race. The state’s political leanings are working in Zinke’s favor. Republicans swept every statewide race last year, and Trump won by 16 percentage points. That was a smaller margin of victory than in 2016, though. Montana also is a state with a strong independent streak, a sense of pride and a growing skepticism toward the outsiders who have flocked here in recent years, or who only parachute in for the summer months — a category some locals say includes Ryan Zinke.</div><div>
</div><div>“That thing of getting on the horse and riding into the Interior Department — give me a break. What is this, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, for God’s sake?” said Carol Williams, the former state Democratic majority leader who served with Zinke in the legislature. “Montanans don’t do that.”</div><div>
</div><div>When I visited Whitefish in July, the towering Mission Mountains, famous for surrounding the Flathead Valley with their snowy peaks and as the gateway to Glacier National Park, were invisible through the screen of brown, ashy air blown in from the wildfires raging in Idaho and Oregon. It’s the type of weather Zinke seized on as Interior secretary to explain how the lack of logging in mismanaged national forests fuels fires.</div><div>
</div><div>But Zinke wasn’t in town. His campaign consultant had not responded to requests to make him available for an interview in his home state. I eventually learned from his wife’s Instagram account that the Zinkes were on a beach vacation in Bodrum, Turkey. (Lolita has family ties to Turkey, and the Zinkes travel there often, including at least three separate trips documented on Lolita’s Instagram account in 2019.)</div><div>
</div><div>Zinke grew up a Montanan and is well-known in his hometown of Whitefish, where his father was a plumber. He was voted senior class president and most likely to succeed at Whitefish High School, and played quarterback on the football team, ultimately getting recruited by the University of Oregon. After he served as a Navy Seal commander, he returned to Montana. According to Zinke’s campaign, he built the Snowfrog on land that had belonged to his grandmother and that Zinke purchased from his mother. Zinke served two terms in the state Senate before he was elected to Congress, where he held office from 2015 to 2017. After two years in that job, he became the first Montanan ever to serve in a presidential Cabinet.</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan Zinke at a White House event in 2018</div><div>Then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arrives for an event in the East Room of the White House in 2018. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo</div><div>
</div><div>When Zinke left Washington in 2018, he went to work for a Nevada-based gold mining company and later became the first of Trump’s Cabinet secretaries to join a lobbying firm, though the enterprise was short-lived. Since then, several locals I spoke with said he has not been a noticeable presence in Whitefish.</div><div>
</div><div>Lolita Zinke’s photos on Instagram show that in recent years she and her family have bought Christmas trees, celebrated Easter, worked on backyard renovations and gone horseback riding in and around the beachside enclave of Santa Barbara, which is two hours north of Los Angeles and home to celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and Meghan Markle. The Zinkes also appear to have quarantined together in Santa Barbara, with Lolita posting a photo of a shirtless Zinke on Memorial Day 2020, alongside a caption referring to him as “my quarenteammate” and the hashtags #godblessamerica #workoutmotivation and, puzzlingly, #bengazi. (The Instagram account is private, but Lolita accepted my request to follow her from an account where I identify myself as a journalist.)</div><div>
</div><div>Lolita was born and raised in Santa Barbara. Property records show she owns two parcels on more than 10 acres in a community locals call The Mesa because of the table-like formation the hill makes as it juts out over the Pacific Ocean. The land has been in Zinke’s wife’s family for decades, according to records, and sits on a street named Las Manos, an apparent reference to her maiden name, Hand. The family’s main house is perched atop a bluff with panoramic views of the white walls and terracotta roofs that dot the landscape in a city sometimes referred to as the “American Riviera.”</div><div>
</div><div>Instagram photos of the Zinkes in Santa Barbara</div><div>Photos from Lolita Zinke’s Instagram account capture the family spending time in and around Santa Barbara in 2019 and 2020, doing a gardening project, horseback-riding, at the airport and by the harbor. | Lolita Zinke/Instagram</div><div>
</div><div>Documents provided by the City of Santa Barbara show Lolita also owns a 41-foot yacht that’s docked in the Santa Barbara harbor — a boat named Freyja’s Dance, after the Norse goddess. According to Lolita’s frequent Instagram posts, she is a member of the local yacht club, which looks up at the towering Santa Ynez Mountains.</div><div>
</div><div>Other sources have placed Zinke in Santa Barbara, as well. In 2019, months after Zinke had resigned from the Interior Department, the Zinkes hosted former Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim for brunch at their home in Santa Barbara, before Yildirim traveled to New York to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly, according to the Montecito Journal. Shortly before his official campaign launch this summer, Zinke also spoke to a group at a rooftop venue in Santa Barbara overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where he referred to D.C. as a “cesspool,” according to an Instagram post from David Spady, a California-based conservative media consultant who served as an adviser to Zinke in Washington.</div><div>
</div><div>Zinke’s campaign did not answer questions about the amount of time the candidate has spent in California compared with Montana. Legally, congressional candidates only need to be inhabitants of the state where they’re running at the time of the election. And some Montanans I spoke to for this story shrugged their shoulders at the time Zinke has spent out of state. One former Republican elected official called the residency questions “a canard.” “He still has a family home. After he was hounded out of the administration, he had significant legal bills to pay, so he had to do some work to get that covered,” said the former official, who asked to remain anonymous to speak openly.</div><div>
</div><div>“They’ve been saying that about Zinke since he first ran for office here, and that didn’t stick then,” added Chris Shipp, former executive director of the Montana GOP and Trump’s state director in 2016. “Just because someone has family in another state that they go and spend time with does not negate the fact that they are a Montanan.”</div><div>
</div><div>“Ryan didn’t show up until there was an announcement for an open seat.”</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;Al Olszewski, a former Montana state senator and Zinke’s sole Republican challenger</div><div>
</div><div>For Zinke’s opponents, the residency matter is fuel for their argument that he cares more about his own interests than Montanans’. They hope to stoke a growing cultural tension: There’s a sharp distinction here between the hardened locals who can withstand the winters and the summer part-timers, many of them from the West Coast, who have bought up homes here and helped drive Montana toward the worst housing crisis in its history. Locals have taken to calling Bozeman, where the price of homes is up 25 percent from the previous year, “Boz Angeles.”</div><div>
</div><div>But there’s more than cultural animus to the argument that Zinke has become, effectively, an outsider to his own state. Based on his most recent fundraising totals, nearly half of his campaign donations have come from donors in Texas. His largest single donation came from an oil company CEO in Dallas.</div><div>
</div><div>“Maybe if he had come back after he resigned as Interior secretary and moved back to Whitefish and came back to the community, that would be something. But Ryan didn’t show up until there was an announcement for an open seat,” said Al Olszewski, a former Montana state senator who is Zinke’s sole declared Republican challenger.</div><div>
</div><div>As he runs for Congress, Zinke is well aware of the Trump-era scandals that trail him, and he has painted a picture of himself as a man who was maligned from the get-go, by both the agency he ran and the media who covered him.</div><div>
</div><div>“When you’re a department … you have people who are protesting you, complaining. I went through 18 investigations from my socks to doors, because these people wanted to stop us from day one,” Zinke said in an Aug. 26 interview on a conservative podcast. “This is what these information oligarchs and the media has become. … We’ve seen manipulation, we’ve seen dishonesty, we’ve seen bias. The Department of Justice, the IGs themselves became weaponized.”</div><div>
</div><div>Ryan Zinke with other members of President Trump’s Cabinet</div><div>Then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (center), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump and other officials listen during a Cabinet meeting in 2018. | Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images</div><div>
</div><div>All told, Zinke faced nearly 20 federal probes. Zinke asserted on the podcast that he had done no wrong. “All of them ran their course,” he said of the investigations. “No wrongdoing in the end, and there was no wrongdoing at the beginning.” The Zinke campaign told POLITICO in a statement that “every investigation ran its course and came out with no violations of ethics laws or rules.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>In fact, the Interior Department inspector general and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel did fault Zinke for ethics violations; evidence related to one ethics probe was presented to a grand jury</b>. Nor has every inquiry officially closed: At least two DOJ investigations are on pause, according to a former official in the Interior Department’s inspector general’s office and a congressional source who was involved in the issue early on. The former official in the IG’s office said the Interior inspector general is waiting to release his own report once the DOJ’s work is completed. The IG’s office declined to comment. The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment on the status of the investigations.</div><div>
</div><div>“You really can’t pressure DOJ,” said the former official in the IG’s office, who was not authorized to speak publicly. “The hairs go up on their back no matter who you are or who they are.”</div><div>
</div><div>One of the investigations examines whether Zinke violated federal conflict of interest rules by engaging in business negotiations with the owner of a large property being developed just across the street from the Snowfrog Inn in Whitefish, at 95 Karrow Ave. It’s an ongoing project Zinke could still benefit from, even as he launches his run for Congress.</div><div>
</div><div>In the project’s early stages, POLITICO reported, Zinke’s wife agreed to let the developers use parts of an adjacent property she operates as a nonprofit park honoring veterans in order to build a parking lot for future businesses at 95 Karrow. The project’s proposal included plans for a microbrewery — a business idea Ryan Zinke had proposed years earlier and spent years pushing the city of Whitefish to allow. Congressional investigators later found through an email that Zinke had hosted developers for the project — including David Lesar, chairman of oil services giant Halliburton, whose energy interests Zinke regulated as Interior Secretary, and Casey Malmquist, the developer of 95 Karrow — at his office in Washington. POLITICO reported at the time that the men had discussed the real estate project over dinner that night.</div><div>
</div><div>Property located at 95 Karrow Ave. in Whitefish, Mont</div><div>A sale of the property at 95 Karrow Ave. in Whitefish is currently pending, and a future development could raise the value of neighboring properties the Zinkes own. | Kristine Paulsen for Politico Magazine</div><div>
</div><div>Now, the developers appear to be selling the 14 acres at 95 Karrow Ave., and are touting the potential brewery and the parking lot as features of the property. In January, the site was listed for $10 million. The land remains undeveloped — a plot of overgrown weeds, potholes and gravel. But the listing advertises the space as a “developer’s dream,” and incorporates recently approved plans for a multiuse development, including a 4,240 sq. ft. microbrewery and the use of 137 parking spots on the adjacent Great Northern Veterans Peace Park. Online records show a sale of 95 Karrow is currently pending.</div><div>
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</div><div>It’s not clear who the buyer is or who will manage the brewery, if constructed, but the development could raise the value of neighboring properties the Zinkes own. And while the nonprofit that has offered its space for parking is led by Lolita — Zinke stepped down from running it prior to becoming Interior Secretary — he appears to continue to support its efforts: He donated $11,594 in leftover campaign funds to the nonprofit in December 2020, according to FEC filings.</div><div>
</div><div>Malmquist, the developer, told me the Zinkes are not involved in the brewery or financially tied to the broader development. He described the project’s use of the veterans park as a “shared parking agreement” that was established in late 2017 and said the developers would cover the costs of converting the land into parking. He said he has only interacted with Lolita over the parking issue. Asked about the meeting he had with Zinke in his Interior Department office and a subsequent private tour Zinke gave him and Lesar of the Lincoln Memorial, Malmquist characterized the interactions as a D.C. welcome for fellow Montanans and said he had not discussed the 95 Karrow development with Zinke on the trip.</div><div>
</div><div>The Zinke campaign did not respond to questions about the deal. Lesar could not be reached for comment. The real estate agent for 95 Karrow did not respond to requests for comment.</div><div>
</div><div>“I think the general impression was that Trump was hounded from day one, and everybody appointed was hounded from day one, so I don’t think it will have any impact to Zinke’s race.”</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;a former Republican elected official in Montana</div><div>
</div><div><b>Some Montanans I spoke with argue Zinke has become part of Washington’s great revolving door, more invested in getting back to D.C. and back to the relationships it has offered him than he is in serving the state.</b>&nbsp;But Zinke’s supporters say his business dealings and history in Washington won’t detract from his campaign. “I think the general impression was that Trump was hounded from day one, and everybody appointed was hounded from day one, so I don’t think it will have any impact to Zinke’s race,” said the former Republican Montana elected official who asked not to be named. “None of those charges stuck, to my knowledge.”</div><div>
</div><div>“If you didn’t know anything about Montana and Montana voters, all you need to do is remember that Greg Gianforte” — then a House candidate, now governor — “body-slammed a reporter a few days before his [congressional] election and probably picked up 5 points,” added Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), the first member of Congress to endorse Zinke in the current campaign. “So, there’s that Western independent cowboy spirit.”</div><div>
</div><div>A sense of uncertainty surrounds the race for Montana’s 2nd district for reasons beyond Zinke’s residency or business dealings. For one thing, the district’s lines won’t officially be drawn until early next year —&nbsp;<b>and there’s a possibility Zinke could end up in the uncomfortable position of running against Montana’s current congressman, Republican Matt Rosendale, who lives in the eastern part of the state.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The GOP favors keeping the East-West divide that existed the last time Montana had two House representatives, in the 1990s, which Republicans say better reflects local identity. That configuration would likely give Montana two GOP victories, and in turn could give national Republicans another seat in the House. But Democrats in Montana are pushing to carve out Flathead County, home to Whitefish and the deep-red city of Kalispell, to make it part of the Eastern district. That would push Zinke into Rosendale’s district and give the Democratic candidates — Cora Neumann, state Rep. Laurie Bishop and lawyer Monica Tranel — a better shot at winning the Western district.</div><div>
</div><div>Bob Brown, a Whitefish-based former Republican president of the Montana Senate who helped Zinke get his start in state politics, says Zinke is a “pretty strong frontrunner” for the new 2nd district if it includes Flathead County. But, Brown pointed out, “Zinke barely beat Rosendale in his first congressional primary.” Swift, Zinke’s campaign consultant, said Zinke plans to run in the district where he lives and doesn’t plan to primary Rosendale.</div><div>
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</div><div>There is not good polling yet for the race, but Zinke is facing competition on both the left and the right. His Democratic opponents are hoping the state can embrace its more purple past. Montana had a Democratic governor until recently and still has one Democratic U.S. senator, plus it has one of the highest rates of ticket-splitting of any state. Neumann recently reported raising $469,000 in the third quarter of the year; Tranel reported $244,000; and Bishop reported $117,000.</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Al Olszewski addresses supporters and family members at a fundraising meet and greet at his house in Kalispell, Mont., Thursday, July 15, 2021. "We're going to fight that we find a way to reduce the bureaucracy. We want a small and limited government that can say yes to us, not no," he says, referring to wildland firefighting in Montana. Olszewski is running against Ryan Zinke, former Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration, for Montana's newly opened second Montana seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Bottom right: Montana Rep. John Fuller holds donation information to hand out to supporters of Dr. Al Olszewski during a meet and greet at Olszewski's home in Kalispell, Mont.</div><div>Dr. Al Olszewski is Zinke’s only Republican challenger so far in the race to represent Montana’s newly designated 2nd congressional district. Olszewski, a former orthopedic surgeon and Air Force veteran who served in the state legislature for six years, held a fundraiser, Thursday, July 15, at his hill-top home in Kalispell. | Kristine Paulsen for Politico Magazine</div><div>
</div><div>Of course, Republicans’ widespread success in the state last year gives Zinke a major advantage. But he also faces a primary opponent who has sought to tar him as too moderate and is trying to rally Montana’s militia-friendly, gun-rights community against him. Over the past year, a housing shortage, gun control and masks ignited cultural clashes across the state. Without Democratic veto power in the governor’s seat for the first time in 16 years, the Republican-majority legislature enacted a flurry of laws.</div><div>
</div><div>Olszewski, Zinke’s Republican challenger, is trying to seize on that momentum. Known locally as Dr. Al, the former orthopedic surgeon and Air Force veteran served in the state legislature for six years. He has long championed anti-abortion legislation and is well-liked among grassroots voters in Kalispell, where he lives. Olszewski’s campaign spokesperson said the candidate is not yet releasing his third-quarter fundraising totals but that, “the campaign reached its quarterly goal and is proud of the strong support from Montanans and not out-of-state special interests.” Zinke’s campaign did not respond when asked about its own third-quarter totals.</div><div>
</div><div>His Trump endorsement notwithstanding, Zinke has a relatively moderate history in Montana, a point Olszewski emphasizes as a knock against him. When he started in politics as a state senator, Zinke voted in favor of gun control and was a strong land conservation supporter. Carol Williams, the former Democratic majority leader, said she bestowed on Zinke the honorary title of “most likely to vote with Democrats.” “I liked him. We had a great relationship. He voted with Democrats a lot, he really did,” Williams told me in Missoula.</div><div>
</div><div>Yet, Olszewski has his own controversies. He officially announced his campaign at the headquarters of the Flathead Liberty Coalition, an organization that recently has advocated against mask and vaccine mandates and in favor of Second Amendment rights, and last year he was photographed with reported members of the Yellowstone Militia, an armed anti-government group, while protesting Covid-19 stay-at-home orders. (Flathead County has a history of anti-government, far-right organizing.)</div><div>
</div><div>Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks during a news conference at the newly restored Iwo Jima U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, on November 21, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia.</div><div>As Zinke wades back into national politics, the question now is how much — or whether — his scandals will matter in the congressional race, and whether Montanans still see him as authentically one of their own. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images</div><div>
</div><div>Whatever the race holds for Ryan Zinke, the election could solidify how Montanans see their identity going forward — as a purple or a deeper red state, as a community of 1 million locals or increasingly a destination for outsiders. Pat Williams, a Democrat who represented the state’s Western congressional district until it was eliminated in 1993 (and who is married to Carol Williams), recalls a time when Republicans would gladly vote for him. But politics here has shifted, to Zinke’s likely advantage. “That’s not happened in my lifetime,” Williams said of last year’s Republican sweep in Montana. “I didn’t see it coming. I don’t think Republicans saw it coming, frankly.”</div><div>
</div><div>Members of both parties told me they hope whoever is their new representative stays in the seat for the long haul, allowing one of Montana’s few representatives in Washington to gain the additional power that comes with seniority in Congress; Zinke got pushback from locals when he resigned from the House after one term to serve in Trump’s Cabinet. Pat Williams views that with concern: “How long will he be congressman before he moves around again?”</div><div>
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</font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dcreport.org/2018/12/17/zinke-hightails-it-out-of-town/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">is out as secretary of the Interior,</a>&nbsp;but in his last days in office he tried to suppress what we can learn about the destruction Trump is doing to our nation’s public lands.</font></p><div class="p0_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorney&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/daniel-jorjani" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Daniel Jorjani,</a>&nbsp;who previously worked at the Koch-funded Freedom Partners, drafted a proposed rule that would&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/12/28/2018-27561/freedom-of-information-act-regulations" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">slash the public’s ability to get public records</a>&nbsp;from the 10 agencies in the Interior Department.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foia.gov/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Freedom of Information Act,</a>&nbsp;a federal law signed by former President Lyndon Johnson in 1966, allows people to ask for previously unreleased documents. The law was passed after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/freedom-of-information-act" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">thousands of federal employees accused of being communists were fired</a>&nbsp;during the McCarthy era, and the Eisenhower administration wouldn’t release records from the dismissals.</font></p><div class="p2_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that&nbsp;<a href="https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/foia/FOIARelease66.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the United States is an open society in which the people’s right to know is cherished and guarded,”</a>&nbsp;Johnson said after he signed the law.</font></p><div class="p3_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notable uses of the law include environmentalists learning that the EPA knew in the 1980s that paper mills were discharging toxic dioxin into rivers.</font></font></p><div class="p4_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jorjani’s proposal would allow the Interior Department to reject requests that the Trump administration decides are “unreasonably burdensome.” Currently, agencies must fulfill records requests despite how much time and effort is required to search for records.</font></font></p><div class="p5_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The bureau will not honor a request that requires an unreasonably burdensome search or requires the bureau to locate, review, redact, or arrange for inspection of a vast quantity of material,” he wrote.</font></font></p><div class="p6_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The proposal would also allow the Interior Department to impose a monthly limit for processing records.</font></font></p><div class="p7_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’re deeply concerned about these proposed changes,” said Nada Culver, senior counsel for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wilderness.org/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Wilderness Society.</a></font></p><div class="p8_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jorjani, the principal deputy solicitor, was on the transition team in the Interior Department after Trump took office and has run the department’s legal office. The nominee for the job, Ryan Nelson, withdrew and was nominated to fill an appellate court vacancy.</font></font></p><div class="p9_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jorjani wrote that the Interior Department wants to make the changes because of increases in records requests since Trump took office. FOIA requests have increased 30% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2018 as environmentalists and others have sought information to oppose Zinke’s&nbsp;<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3051026" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">rollbacks of public lands protections.</a></font></p><div class="p10_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Thompson, a spokeswoman for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wilderness.org/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Wilderness Society,</a>&nbsp;said publishing the proposed regulation wasn’t allowed during the government shutdown when only necessary or emergency notices are to be published.</font></p><div class="p11_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People have until Jan. 28 to comment on the proposed changes.</font></font></p><div class="p12_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dcreport.org/2018/10/23/zinke-destroy-interior-department-records/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tried to get permission to destroy some records about what animals are protected</a>&nbsp;under the Endangered Species Act. A recent memo at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department, part of the Interior Department, directs staffers to withhold or delay releasing some public documents about how the Endangered Species Act is carried out.</font></p><div class="p13_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke put Jorjani in charge of overseeing records requests, a role normally reserved for career staffers, on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/esa/pdfs/secretarial-order-on-FOIA-chief-12-10-2018.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Tuesday before Thanksgiving.</a></font></p><div class="p14_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACTION BOX/What You Can Do About It</font></strong></font></p><div class="p15_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Comment&nbsp;<a href="https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DOI_FRDOC_0001-0094" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">online</a>&nbsp;or by mailing comments to Executive Secretariat-FOIA regulations, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240. Please use Docket No. DOI-2018-0017 in your message. Comments must be submitted by Jan. 28.</font></p><div class="p16_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tell Daniel Jorjani your thoughts on public records by calling the solicitor’s office at 202-208-4423, writing him at U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240, or emailing him at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:Daniel_Jorjani@ios.doi.gov" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Daniel_Jorjani@ios.doi.gov</a>.</font></p><div class="p17_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Wilderness Society can be reached at 1-800-THE-WILD.</font></font></p></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hours after Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) penned an op-ed calling for Ryan Zinke’s resignation, the interior secretary hit back by calling the top Democrat a “drunk.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s hard for him to think straight from the bottom of the bottle,” Zinke tweeted on Friday. “This is coming from a man who used nearly $50,000 in tax dollars as hush money to cover up his drunken and hostile behavior.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Trump cabinet official continued: “He should resign and pay back the taxpayer for the hush money and the tens of thousands of dollars he forced my department to spend investigating unfounded allegations.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>Secretary Ryan Zinke</div><div>?</div><div>@SecretaryZinke</div><div>&nbsp;My thoughts on Rep. Grijalva’s opinion piece. #TuneInnForMore</div><div>
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</div><div>The Arizona congressman, who will likely chair the House Natural Resources Committee, which oversees Zinke’s agency, said in a USA Today op-ed on Friday morning that Zinke should step down because of his multiple “ethical and managerial failings.”</div><div>
</div><div>“While the secretary continues to project confidence, questions have grown since the election about his future plans, and the White House reportedly fears that he would be unable to withstand scrutiny on Capitol Hill,” Grijalva wrote. “Those fears are justified. Mr. Zinke has never even tried to offer an explanation for the sheer scope of his well-documented scandals.”</div><div>
</div><div>Zinke’s allegations mirror a report by the Washington Times claiming that in 2015 the Arizona congressman pushed a severance package on a former employee who complained of Grijalva’s alleged frequent drunkenness and hostile work environment—allegations the lawmaker vehemently denies.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Last week, the Washington Times contacted me seeking comment on what it described as a sexual harassment claim that, in fact, had never been made,” Grijalva said in a statement regarding the employee’s legal threats. “Once the paper realized its original story was provably false, staff regrouped over the holidays and decided to run a misleading article trying to link me to sexual harassment complaints made against other people.”</span></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-zinke-out-as-donald-trumps-interior-secretary-leaving-at-end-of-the-year">https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-zinke-out-as-donald-trumps-interior-secretary-leaving-at-end-of-the-year</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp; &nbsp;Embattled Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is resigning from his position in the wake of legal issues, Bloomberg&nbsp;</span><a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-15/trump-s-interior-chief-said-to-step-down-amid-ethics-inquiries" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">reported Saturday morning</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">. According to Bloomberg, “concern about legal costs and scrutiny of his travel, political activity and potential conflicts of interest were factors in Zinke’s decision.” Zinke has notified President Trump that he is stepping down. Shortly after Jacobs broke the news,&nbsp;</span><a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073944491588022272" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Trump tweeted</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">, “Secretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years. Ryan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want to thank him for his service to our Nation.......” Potential candidates that have surfaced include Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. Butch Otter and Utah Attorney General Scott Reyes are among the &nbsp;contenders, Jacobs noted. Zinke’s decision comes several months after an internal report found that he had&nbsp;</span><a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-zinkes-travel-with-wife-violated-interior-dept-policy-inspector-general" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">violated regulations&nbsp;</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">by letting his family ride alongside him in government vehicles, and a subsequent&nbsp;</span><a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-probing-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-report" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Department of Justice Investigation</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">// pruitt ding dong gulp!</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/ryan-zinkes-replacement-is-a-fresh-nightmare-for-public-1831147375">https://earther.gizmodo.com/ryan-zinkes-replacement-is-a-fresh-nightmare-for-public-1831147375</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Noted oil and gas lover Ryan Zinke is on&nbsp;<a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/ryan-zinke-will-be-drilling-oil-fields-in-trump-officia-1831121281" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">his way out the door</a>&nbsp;at the Department of Interior. And like fellow grifter Scott Pruitt who also&nbsp;<a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/so-long-scandal-boy-1827370997" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">left us too soon</a>, Zinke’s temporary (for now) replacement is much less scandal-plagued and much more laser-focused on gutting the agency.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Bernhardt is currently the Department of Interior’s second in command, but he’ll ascend to acting secretary once Zinke leaves at the end of the year (and could remain there since he’s already been confirmed by the Senate and the administration has recently struggled finding qualified people to&nbsp;<a href="https://splinternews.com/we-have-no-idea-who-trumps-next-chief-of-staff-will-be-1830972009" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">fill</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/climate/senate-noaa-barry-myers.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">key</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/christie-is-said-to-be-trump-s-top-candidate-for-chief-of-staff" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">roles</a>). Like Andrew Wheeler&nbsp;<a href="https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-new-epa-chief-same-as-the-old-epa-chief-but-1827530179#ga=2.95783578.728781176.1544924207-1013477785.1530213155" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">who took over for Pruitt</a>&nbsp;at the Environmental Protection Agency, Bernhardt worked as a lobbyist for the exact industries that will now try to curry favor with him as acting secretary. He’s been called a “walking conflict of interest,” and if his past record is any indication, he’ll be more than happy to let the industries whose bidding he’s done get their way to the detriment of public lands.</font></p><div class="instream-native-video instream-native-video--mobile instream-permalink" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 636px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernhardt worked for the George W. Bush administration, then became a lobbyist for companies with business before the department, and then came back to Interior last year. During his stint with Interior under Bush, Bernhardt rose to solicitor general. Along the way, he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/09/ungreening-america-behind-curtain/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">helped push for drilling</a>&nbsp;in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">&nbsp;</strong>while ignoring scientific guidance suggesting that might not be a good idea. But it’s his most recent efforts lobbying are the biggest red flags because they bring with them a host of entanglements.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the Bush administration, Bernhardt joined Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, and Schreck as a lawyer and lobbyist for all the bigs: Big Oil, Big Gas, Big Mining and Big Agriculture. His work for these groups has left him with a laundry list on&nbsp;<a href="https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rL2bONoceiOY/v0" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">his ethics forms</a>&nbsp;of recusals whenever they have an issue come before the Department of the Interior. Halliburton, the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, Rosemont Copper Company, and Statoil are on that list. All have business on Department of Interior lands or proposals before the agency.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along the way, he filed suits against the Department of Interior for a number of these groups. Among his greatest hits are suing on behalf of the Westland Water District—home to some of California’s biggest farmers—over a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article115172958.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">$375 million drainage dispute</a>, or the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/state-suing-over-anwr-it-trying-prove-whats-already-been-proven/2014/03/26/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">state of Alaska</a>&nbsp;to get oil exploration rights within ANWR. As a lobbyist, Bernhardt also pushed bills that would make offshore drilling easier. The Trump administration has&nbsp;<a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/trump-suggests-we-just-drill-everywhere-1821781890#ga=2.129296010.728781176.1544924207-1013477785.1530213155" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">pursued these</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://gizmodo.com/tag/anwr#ga=2.129296010.728781176.1544924207-1013477785.1530213155" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">issues</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://gizmodo.com/report-the-white-house-is-using-california-wildfires-a-1828212379#ga=2.163350970.728781176.1544924207-1013477785.1530213155" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">with gusto</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/climate/zinke-interior-successor-bernhardt.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">reports indicate</a>that Bernhardt has been a driving force, showing that even though he has recused himself from dealing with firms he’s represented, he’s still helped create policies that benefit them. Not all those policies&nbsp;<a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/trumps-giant-offshore-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-was-a-flop-1828386787#ga=2.206571152.262020097.1544806882-1005927269.1544620083" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">have been successful</a>&nbsp;or even&nbsp;<a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/other-states-ask-zinke-to-give-them-offshore-drilling-w-1821944297#ga=2.206571152.262020097.1544806882-1005927269.1544620083" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">remotely close to popular</a>, but the business-friendly turn of the department has been one of the Trump administration’s hallmarks.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Bernhardt was behind most of that work already and will continue to ignore science and the input of career professionals to try to jam through his objectives,” Joel Clement, a former Department of Interior whistleblower and fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, told Earther. “The difference now is that the courts are no longer the only institutions in his way. The House will finally hold him and his team accountable so it’s unlikely they can play as fast and loose with rules and norms as they did the previous two years.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With Democrats taking over the house next month, oversight promises to become more stringent. Before leaving, Zinke was set to enter what would likely have been a world of pain. He had at least 17 ethics investigations inside the department and more scrutiny was almost surely on the way, particularly after he&nbsp;<a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/genius-ryan-zinke-calls-congressman-who-will-likely-be-1830796712" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(56, 187, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;">personally attacked</a>&nbsp;Representative Raul Grijalva, the likely incoming chair of the House Natural Resources Committee that oversees the department. Bernhardt doesn’t come with the personal baggage of Zinke, but his convoluted past is already on Grijalva’s radar.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“His years of lobbying on behalf of clients who stand to profit from Interior policy decisions are cause for serious concern,” the Arizona Democrat said in a statement to Earther. “We intend to continue conducting vigorous oversight of how Interior political appointees arrive at major policy decisions, who they consult, who they ignore, and who stands to benefit financially. Deputy Secretary Bernhardt should be prepared to answer those questions early in the new Congress, and so should Secretary Zinke’s successor.”</font></font></p></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/18 predictably</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/greater-sage-grouse-2622600663.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/greater-sage-grouse-2622600663.html</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000">no lnx</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><b>Feds Move to Slash Sage Grouse Protections For More Oil & Gas Development</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management published proposals on Thursday designed to roll back critical measures that protect the imperiled greater sage grouse on public lands in order to boost fossil fuel development and mining in the American West.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The spectacular bird once numbered 16 million and roamed across 13 Western U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. But rampant oil and gas development and other factors have cut its habitat in half. Its population has significantly plunged to an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 individuals across 11 western states and southern Alberta.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>In 2015, the charismatic bird saw a glimmer of hope with the Greater Sage Grouse Conservation Plan, which then-Interior Secretary Sally Jewell called a "truly historic moment</b>—one that represents extraordinary collaboration across the American West." A remarkable coalition of scientists, ranchers, environmental groups, extractive industries, federal agencies and state and local governments worked together to create a management plan for the keystone species.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As the New York Times explained, that Obama-era effort to protect the sage grouse set out to ban or sharply reduce drilling in 10.7 million acres of its habitat.</span></div><div>
</div><div>But the Trump administration's plan would effectively limit the grouse's protected habitat to a mere 1.8 million acres, "essentially opening up nine million acres of land to drilling, mining and other development," the paper said.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke started the process last year when he signed a secretarial order to overhaul the Obama administration plan.</b></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt defended Thursday's move. "I completely believe that these plans are leaning forward on the conservation of sage grouse," Bernhardt told The Associated Press.</span></div><div>
</div><div>"Do they do it in exactly the same way? No. We made some change in the plans and got rid of some things that are simply not necessary," he added.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservation groups blasted the Trump administration's proposal. The Audubon Society pointed out that more than 40 thousand Americans have urged Secretary Zinke to honor the 2015 Greater Sage-Grouse conservation agreement.</span></div><div>
</div><div>"Out West we know a deal is a deal. To have plans that took years of work, backed by good science and strong public support, brought into question is disheartening, a waste of tax-payers money and will threaten our public lands," Brian Rutledge, director of Audubon's Sagebrush Ecosystem Initiative, said in a press release.</div><div>
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</b></div><div><b>The Center for Biological Diversity said it's not just the sage grouse at risk, but also hundreds of other sagebrush-dependent wildlife species.</b></div><div>
</div><div>"These plans show that Zinke will stop at nothing to make it easier for polluting industries to mine and frack every last acre of the West," Michael Saul, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a press release emailed to EcoWatch. "This is a huge step backward for greater sage grouse and for hundreds of other species that depend on unspoiled public land."</div><div>
</div><div>Bobby McEnaney, senior director for the Western Renewable Energy Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council had similar sentiments.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>"It's hard to pretend at this point that Zinke is a steward of America's public lands: he acts more like a pillager,</b>" McEnaney said in an online statement. "This rolls back a conservation plan that was carefully crafted by states, ranchers, conservationists and public officials to protect this iconic western bird and the unique sagebrush landscape it inhabits. Zinke's move to unravel it is his single largest land use decision to date. It has no basis in science—it's a bald-faced giveaway to the oil and gas industry."</div><div>
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face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times 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style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, the embattled official, who is facing several federal investigations of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/zinke-halliburton-project-2579693147.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">alleged misconduct</a>, could be on his way out.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/08/ryan-zinke-fox-news-956537" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">POLITICO</a>'s sources said that the cabinet official plans to resign as Interior Secretary by the end of the year. They claimed that Zinke reached out to the conservative channel Fox News about potential employment, and also sought positions on energy company boards of directors or private equity firms, according to POLITICO.</span></p><p>The Interior's press secretary denied the report about Zinke seeking a job with Fox News, calling the rumor "laughably false and belongs in The Onion," in reference to the satirical news publication.&nbsp; A network spokeswoman also told&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/415816-zinke-sought-fox-news-job-report" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Hill</a>&nbsp;that "no one at Fox News has spoken to Zinke about a contributor role."</p><p>On Friday, Trump said that he has no plans to fire his DOI secretary but was "going to look into any complaints,"&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/%22If%20there%20are%20any%20complaints,%20I'll%20look%20into%20them.%22" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Hill</a>&nbsp;reported.</p><p>Even if Zinke's future as a Fox News pundit is uncertain, many would be happy to see him out of his government job. Zinke has faced numerous calls for resignation from environmental groups and fellow lawmakers for his anti-environmental policies.</p><p>The former Montana congressman spent much of his time at the Interior&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/utah-monuments-oil-gas-leases-2550358557.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">opening public lands</a>&nbsp;to oil and gas drilling, and was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/zinke-halliburton-project-2579693147.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recently linked</a>&nbsp;to a development project with David Lesar, the chairman of the oil giant Halliburton.&nbsp; Since taking office, Zinke has racked up 17 federal investigations into his behavior, according to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/a-guide-to-the-14-federal-investigations-into-ryan-zinke/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a>&nbsp;(CREW).</p><p>Several of the investigations have closed but he is currently the<b>&nbsp;subject of six open investigations&nbsp;</b>by federal agencies and Congress, CREW said.&nbsp; After spending nearly the last two years being forced to watch Ryan Zinke sell-out our public lands and break ethical norms and possibly laws, we needed a good laugh,"&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/home" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sierra Club</a>&nbsp;Our Wild America director Lena Moffitt said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2018/11/icymi-doors-interior-close-zinke-looks-open-one-fox-news" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">press release</a>&nbsp;in reaction to POLITCO's report. "But as a former representative himself<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Zinke shouldn't forget that the House's power of subpoena extends all the way to cable television."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Democratic New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone—who will likely be the new chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee after the Democrats took control over the House after the midterm elections—&nbsp;<a href="https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/pallone-on-democrats-winning-house-majority" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">promised</a>&nbsp;to "conduct vigorous oversight of the Trump Administration so Washington works again for the people not the special interests."</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</span></p><div class="around-the-web"><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/zinke-family-travel-violated-department-policies-2613544466.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Interior Department Watchdog: Zinke Family Travel Violated ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/31/ryan-zinke-interior-department-possible-successor-bernhardt-952984" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Zinke's heir apparent ready to step in - POLITICO ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/opinions/zinke-resign-opinion-clement/index.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Secretary Zinke, it's time to call it quits (opinion) - CNN ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/ryan-zinke-neighbor-puerto-rico-power-contract" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Ryan Zinke's Neighbor Lands $300 Million Contract to Rebuild ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/overnights/415810-overnight-energy-big-headache-ahead-for-zinke-with-dem" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Overnight Energy: Dem House means new headache for Zinke ... ›</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/ryan-zinke-investigation-doj-2616779372.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/ryan-zinke-investigation-doj-2616779372.html</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...These are the three investigations that might get Zinke in criminal trouble:</font></div><ol class="ee-ol" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grand Staircase Escalante: When Zinke redrew the boundaries of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, he drew them around a piece of land belonging to a state lawmaker, prompting concerns that he was trading public lands for political favors.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Halliburton Deal: Zinke has met with Halliburton Chair David Lesar while in office and discussed a Montana real estate development owned by Lesar's son that might include a brewery that the Zinke's would run and could increase the value of land nearby owned by the Zinke's foundation. The DOI is involved with regulating Halliburton.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Connecticut Casino Controversy: Connecticut lawmakers asked for an investigation into Zinke's handling of a potential Native American casino project. He met with lobbyists opposed to the project, but refused to meet with proponents and may have given false information to the tribes involved.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></li></ol><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-endangered-species-decisions-2613623876.html</font></p><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px;"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-endangered-species-decisions-2613623876.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Leaked Trump Administration Memo: Keep Public in Dark About How Endangered Species Decisions Are Made</font></a></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url expanded" data-elid="2613623876" data-authors="Center for Biological Diversity" data-headline="Leaked Trump Administration Memo: Keep Public in Dark About How Endangered Species Decisions Are Made" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><div class="widgetbrief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a Trump administration memorandum leaked to the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is directing its staff to withhold, or delay releasing, certain public records about how the Endangered Species Act is carried out. That includes records where the advice of career wildlife scientists may be overridden by political appointees in the Trump administration.</font></p></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms ease 0s; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is a clear attempt to stifle science and boost Trump's anti-wildlife agenda," said Meg Townsend, the Center for Biological Diversity's open government attorney. "The public has every right to know how our government makes decisions about the fate of our most endangered species. This memo keeps the public in the dark and creates the perfect environment for political meddling."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The memo recommends that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service limit the information released to the public for decisions regarding species protected under the Endangered Species Act. It provides a list of types of records for agency staff to withhold, including drafts of policies and rules, briefing documents and decision meeting notes and summaries.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The agency has already implemented aspects of this guidance in actions like the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2011/keystone-xl-pipeline-10-05-2011.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Keystone XL pipeline construction lawsuit</a>, and in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision last year to prematurely remove endangered species protection from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/grizzly-bear-08-30-2017.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Yellowstone grizzly bears</a>, as the memo confirms.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Directing the agency to hide science violates every notion of the scientific process, which is supposed to be open and reviewable," said Townsend. "If the Service covers up dissenting views, it can get away with all kinds of bad decisions that could do enormous damage to some of America's most imperiled plants and animals."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As this memo recommends that agency staff take a less transparent approach, Trump's anti-wildlife agenda is being pushed at all levels of government.&nbsp;</b>Removing the public's ability to know what its government is doing—which is contrary to the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act—means that it will be more difficult to legally challenge agency actions that harm imperiled wildlife.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"This Trump memo would send all future Fish and Wildlife Service decisions into a black hole and result in more animals going extinct,"</b>&nbsp;Townsend said. "If the Trump administration would simply let the Fish and Wildlife Service follow the law and support decisions with science, it wouldn't need the memo or have anything to hide."</font></p></div></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-military-bases-coal-export-2612777989.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-military-bases-coal-export-2612777989.html</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Trump administration is considering using military bases to export coal and natural gas as a way to override state opposition to building private export terminals, Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke told the AP.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The AP reports that Washington and Oregon authorities have rejected six terminal proposals due to safety and public health concerns, and Zinke's home state of Montana is part of a lawsuit with five other states and a coal company suing Washington for denying permits to one project.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I respect the state of Washington and Oregon and California," Zinke told the AP. "But also, it's in our interest for national security and our allies to make sure that they have access to affordable energy commodities."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>For a deeper dive:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/573a19c3d43643e5b2d961b46cd99c67" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">AP</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>For more&nbsp;</em><a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>climate change</em></a><em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</em><a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>clean energy</em></a><em>&nbsp;news, you can follow Climate Nexus on&nbsp;</em><a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateNexus" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Twitter</em></a><em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClimateNexus/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Facebook</em></a><em>, and sign up for daily&nbsp;</em><a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=7c84c08aaa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Hot News</em></a><em>.</em></font></p><div class="around-the-web"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</font></div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.apnews.com/573a19c3d43643e5b2d961b46cd99c67" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">West Coast military installations eyed for US fuel exports ›</font></a></li></ul></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There was a time when Ryan Zinke’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2232196/how-ryan-zinke-really-stacks-teddy-roosevelt" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">claim to be a Teddy Roosevelt Republican</a>&nbsp;would have elicited laughter heard from Don Pedro Dam to Mount Rushmore. Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first and strongest ever defenders of public lands and wildlife; Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior might go down in history as the worst-ever enemy of those same public lands and wildlife.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Consider this: Ryan Zinke has already presided over the removal of some two million acres of public land from protection, mostly in the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase National Monuments. Yvon&nbsp;<b>Chouinard</b>, founder of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Patagonia,&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ryan-zinke-trump-war-on-department-of-interior-700218/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">called it</a>, “the largest elimination of public land in American history.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And while the nation’s been distracted by Donald Trump’s daily rolling dumpster fire, Ryan Zinke and friends&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/13/the-trump-administration-officially-clipped-the-wings-of-the-migratory-bird-treaty-act/?utm_term=.62fbc1fb7bc7" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">have managed to gut</a>&nbsp;one of the most venerated of all of America’s great conservation measures—the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One-hundred years old this year, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) is honored by nations including Canada, Mexico, and Japan. It protects migratory birds from robins and cranes to Peregrine Falcons. Ironically, the Audubon Society named 2018 the, “Year of the Bird,” to honor the hundred-year anniversary of one of our most enduring commitments to the values of Teddy Roosevelt.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of this got mentioned during Ryan Zinke’s whirlwind tour through California Congressional District 10 last week<b>. Zinke was visiting as the guest of Congressman Jeff Denham, who is putting on his biennial campaign extravaganza, featuring promises to remedy all the problems he’s neglected ever since he won office in 2010.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zinke’s ludicrous claim about adhering to Teddy Roosevelt’s land ethic came in a district that features the protected wintering grounds of well over a hundred thousand migratory waterfowl, including the formerly endangered&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2001/2001-25.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Aleutian Canada Goose</a>, as well as ducks, cranes, and swans. The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is the result of a partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Audubon Society, prominent local families, and a host of other organizations and individuals.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Only a few miles west of Modesto, the refuge isn’t just a living monument to local pride in our special natural history, it represents the love of nature Teddy Roosevelt personified in his commitment to public lands—exactly opposite Ryan Zinke’s “plunder for profits” campaign.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And even though Jeff Denham has been telling his constituents he’s against the tunnels, he joined Nunes and Valadao in voting for legislation that not only prevents lawsuits against the tunnels, it would prevent lawsuits against water projects in general<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ostensibly here to help Jeff Denham stop the state’s “water grab,” Ryan Zinke’s commitment is actually to the likes of&nbsp;<b>Devin Nunes and David Valadao, Denham’s</b>&nbsp;Republican colleagues in the southern San Joaquin Valley. That’s where Big Ag dominates politics and water issues and where Nunes and Valadao are pushing hard for twin tunnels in the Delta.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Think Jeff Denham and Ryan Zinke are interested in protecting the interests of Valley citizens? Just follow the money.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Jeff Denham receives money from coal and oil barons like the Koch Brothers, who want to continue exploiting public lands for dirty energy and dirtier money. Ryan Zinke’s happy to help.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Closer to home, Stewart Resnick and Boswell Farms want our water to keep flowing south;&nbsp;</b>Jeff Denham’s happy to help. After all,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scpr.org/news/2014/04/10/43402/the-politics-of-drought-california-water-interests/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">he made the top ten</a>&nbsp;of Resnick’s donation list, just a few thousand dollars behind his buddy David Valadao.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff Denham and Ryan Zinke are about as much like Teddy Roosevelt as Donald Trump is like Abraham Lincoln. Americans who value their history should shower him with boos and catcalls any time Ryan Zinke so deceitfully invokes the name, “Roosevelt.”</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/08/zinke-blamed-environmental-terrorists-for-wildfires-heres-the-crazy-backstory-that-led-to-that/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/08/zinke-blamed-environmental-terrorists-for-wildfires-heres-the-crazy-backstory-that-led-to-that/</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From California to British Columbia, the West is burning up. While fire experts are clear that climate change is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/14/wildfires-have-gotten-bigger-recent-years-trend-is-likely-continue/?utm_term=.c2949290e611" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">a major factor</a>&nbsp;in making wildfires more frequent and more intense, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1030108898940919809" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">can’t seem to make up his mind</a>&nbsp;about its role. Instead, he has blamed an unusual boogeyman for the fires: environmental terrorists.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We have been held hostage by these environmental terrorist groups that have not allowed public access—that refuse to allow [the] harvest of timber,” he told&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/13/exclusive-zinke-environmental-terrorist-groups-western-us-wildfires/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">Breitbart</a>&nbsp;earlier this month. The underlying cause of catastrophic blazes, he said, is the “fuel load” of dead and dying timber in our forests.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518152247/new-interior-secretary-rides-a-horse-to-first-day-on-the-job" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">Whoa there, Zinke</a>!</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fire experts do say that there’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558390511/how-fire-suppression-techniques-can-change-as-wildfires-get-bigger" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">more fuel in Western forests</a>&nbsp;than there used to be, thanks to decades of aggressive fire suppression—and, well, because the warmer weather has been drying everything up.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Understanding Zinke’s bizarre claim about environmental terrorists requires a short history lesson. The concept came from one of the environmental movement’s biggest foes:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/ron-arnold" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">libertarian activist Ron Arnold</a>, who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/19/us/fund-raisers-tap-anti-environmentalism.html?pagewanted=2" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">once told the<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em></a>&nbsp;that he wanted to “destroy environmentalists.”</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arnold coined the term “ecoterrorism” in 1983 article and later published the book&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eco-terror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature</em>, which attempted to link the environmental movement with the<b>&nbsp;Unabomber</b>.</span>&nbsp;Arnold used “ecoterrorism” to refer to groups like Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, and Earth First! that sometimes engaged in property crimes, like vandalism and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/03/05/tree-spiking-an-eco-terrorist-tactic/a400944c-a3a0-4c03-ab99-afada6f44e7a/?utm_term=.e74ac6d411b7" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">tree spiking</a>, to combat environmental degradation and animal rights abuses.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Experts who have studied the phenomenon say “ecoterrorism” is not an appropriate term.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In my research, I found that 90 to 95 percent of all direct actions, or crimes if you will, perpetrated by these groups do not fall anywhere close to the term ‘terrorism,'” says&nbsp;<b><a href="https://fayette.psu.edu/person/donald-liddick" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">Donald Liddick</a>, author of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eco-Terrorism-Radical-Environmental-Liberation-Movements/dp/0275985350/gristmagazine" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements</em></a>.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275083075/download" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">2013 study</a>&nbsp;that surveyed the acceptance of “ecoterrorism” found that “there is no documented evidence of harm coming to humans as a result of actions by radical environmentalists.” The authors suggest that terms like “obstruction,” “vandalism,” and “sabotage” more accurately described actions labeled as “ecoterrorism.”</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tree spiking, the widely feared practice of boobytrapping trees with metal rods, resulted in only&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1987-05-16/news/mn-9417_1_tree-spiking" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">one serious injury</a>. Tree-spiking groups gave ample warning of their actions—they didn’t want the trees to be cut down, after all.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liddick points out that Arnold had political motivations when he coined the phrase. Arnold is a policy advisor to the climate-denying think tank The Heartland Institute and the executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from&nbsp;<a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/center-for-the-defense-of-free-enterprise/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">ExxonMobil</a>&nbsp;and the ultra-conservative&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/meet-anti-government-recluse-who-bankrolls-trump-507338" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">Mercer Family Foundation</a>.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The term “ecoterrorism” picked up steam through the ’80s and ’90s, and began to appear in the prosecution of environmental and animal activists. Things took a turn for the weird in 2004: The FBI’s top official in charge of domestic terrorism, John Lewis, named ecoterrorism and the animal rights movement “the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat,” over far-right extremism, the KKK, and anti-abortion groups. (Arnold, it turns out,&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170728202314/http://www.truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/48551:terrorist-tree-huggers" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">had asked the FBI</a>&nbsp;to take a closer look at “ecoterrorists” in 2002.) At the time of the FBI’s declaration, no one had been killed in any attacks by these groups,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/24/schuster.column/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">according to CNN</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While accusations of “ecoterrorism” have&nbsp;<a href="https://psmag.com/environment/whatever-happened-to-eco-terrorism" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">fallen in recent years</a>, the label has been used against&nbsp;<a href="https://grist.org/article/according-to-this-lawsuit-if-you-opposed-dapl-youre-a-terrorist/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">activists at Standing Rock</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pipeline-environmentalist-terrorism_us_5a85c2ede4b0058d55672250" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">valve turners</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pipeline-environmentalist-terrorism_us_5a85c2ede4b0058d55672250" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">other pipeline opponents</a>. Zinke’s use of the term didn’t surprise Seymour.</span>“To call something terrorism when it doesn’t actually entail a loss of human life is problematic, to say the least,” says&nbsp;<a href="http://english.fullerton.edu/faculty/profile/n_seymour.aspx" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">Nicole Seymour</a>, assistant professor of English at California State University, Fullerton.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s kind of those boogeymen that the Trump administration and similar folks have been trying to implant in our imagination—these concepts made up to create public panic,” Seymour says.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seymour sees Zinke’s use of “environmental terrorism” as a sound bite that casts blame off of climate change and onto environmentalists.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liddick has a different perspective. “Knowing politics as I know politics, I think it’s about lumbering the Sierra,” he says. “Some of the corporate interests want to get the Sierra Nevada softwood and hardwood.”</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Thursday, the day after I spoke with Liddick, the Trump administration&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/zinke-blames-climate-change-lax-forest-management-for-wildfires" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">announced plans</a>&nbsp;to fight wildfires with more logging and controlled burns on federal land. The timber industry has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-logging-wildfire-risk-20180807-story.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">long used fire prevention as an excuse to clear forests</a>.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So Zinke’s comments didn’t come out of nowhere. But how is all this connected to ecoterrorists? It all goes back to our old libertarian pal Ron Arnold. In addition to coining “ecoterrorism,” he was also the leading force behind the “Wise Use” movement—an anti-environmentalist approach to managing federal lands that emphasizes extraction. Its agenda,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1349160-cdfearnold00089.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">spelled out by Arnold in 1988</a>, includes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opening all public lands to mining and oil exploration, and clear-cutting old growth in national forests — partly for wildfire prevention, of course. In other words, this tenuous link between ecoterrorism and logging is 20 years old.</font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Z<a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/zinke-wildfires-logging-2596682044.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;">inke Announces Plan to Fight Wildfires With More Logging</a></font></b></font></font></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url expanded" data-elid="2596682044" data-authors="Climate Nexus" data-headline="Zinke Announces Plan to Fight Wildfires With More Logging" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><div class="widgetbrief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Trump</a>&nbsp;administration announced a new plan Thursday to fight ongoing&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildfires" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">wildfires</a>&nbsp;with more logging, and with no mention of additional funding or&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/climate-change" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a>.</font></font></font></p></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms ease 0s; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Secretary&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;stated in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6RlB1WqFY" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Fox Business interview</a>&nbsp;that the fires are so intense because the forests have "been held hostage by environmental groups" to prevent proper management via logging, and that climate change is "irrelevant."</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But when asked later by&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1030108898940919809" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Weijia Jang of CBS</a>, Zinke said "of course" climate change is part of the science explaining the wildfires. Then, at a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/us/politics/trump-cabinet-meetings.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">cabinet meeting</a>&nbsp;Thursday afternoon, President Trump asked Zinke to repeat his assertion that "it's not a global warming thing."</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Zinke, like Trump, continues to deny the obvious," Kirin Kennedy, associate legislative director for lands and wildlife for the Sierra Club, said in an email,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/trump-s-speeches-feature-mystery-men-the-white-house-won-t-name" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bloomberg reported</a>. "It is climate change that is exacerbating wildfire season in the West."</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As reported by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article216821710.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Sacramento Bee</a>:</font></font></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The plan, which emphasizes state and local collaboration, was short on details, however. It does not address politically sensitive issues like climate change, which Democrats and scientists argue is at the root of the problem, or the role of environmental reviews for logging projects, which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article216458870.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">conservatives want to sidestep</a>. And it did not address the possibility of additional funding, suggesting the burden to pay for the new efforts could fall to the states.</font></font></font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="23" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>Trump’s proclamation removed large sections of the plateau from the monument.</b> Extractive industries have targeted the area for development in the past. In the 1990s, Andalex Resources, Inc. proposed the </span><a href="https://fs.ogm.utah.gov/FILES/COAL/CHIAS/21KAIPAR/10031995/0001.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:23;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="35" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Smoky Hollow Mine</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> — a giant operation that sought to remove some </span><a href="http://files.geology.utah.gov/online/c/c-93/gsekcoal.htm" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:23;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="36" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">72 million tons of coal worth an estimated $1.4 billion</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> over a 30-year period. </span></font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="24" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palmer — who spent 37 years in the coal industry, 14 years of them as the senior vice president of government relations at Peabody — said he doubts that the presence of coal influenced the agency’s decision on Grand Staircase-Escalante.</font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="25" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Hell man, there’s coal everywhere. That’s why we use it,” he said. “That Grand Staircase coal, I’ve never looked at those reserves. And I’ve never heard anybody talking about developing the reserves.”&nbsp;</font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="26" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The monument rollbacks were about maintaining public land for a variety of uses, including but not limited to mining, Palmer said. He noted that there is also grazing ground and uranium on the land.</font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="27" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This was not some deep secret coal deal,” he said of Trump’s monument decision. “It’s a multiple-use issue.”</font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="28" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Others, however, see it as yet another giveaway to energy interests from an administration <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">stacked with industry lobbyists and climate change skeptics, and which is working feverishly to boost fossil fuel production in an effort to achieve what it calls “energy dominance.”</span></font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="29" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.backcountryhunters.org/landtawney" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:29;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="37" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Land Tawney</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, president and chief executive of the Montana-based nonprofit </span><a href="http://www.backcountryhunters.org/" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:29;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="38" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Backcountry Hunters and Anglers</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, told Politico this month that the administration’s decision on Grand Staircase-Escalante was particularly “troubling.” He called it a “</span><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/04/trump-utah-monuments-map-bears-ears-grand-staircase-203201" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:29;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="39" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">carve-out for the coal industry</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">” that threatens important habitat for bighorn sheep. &nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="30" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public lands advocates say Magallanes’ ties to the coal industry should raise questions about her involvement in the monuments review and Zinke’s recommendations to Trump.</font></span></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="31" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greg Zimmerman, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, a Colorado-based conservation and advocacy group, told HuffPost that like many Interior officials under Zinke or in his inner circle, Magallanes “seems happily committed to carrying out a far-right agenda for public lands: increasing access for private corporations, while cutting out the public from our lands.”</font></span></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="32" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The national monument review is Exhibit A,” he said.</font></font></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="33" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">As part of the review, Magallanes also met extensively with members of Utah’s Republican congressional delegation and their staffers, as well as several other state and local officials opposed to the monuments, her </span><a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/17-01076ca_compressed.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="40" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">schedule</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> shows. She participated in calls with numerous Republican lawmakers in other states with monuments impacted by the review. And she met with several industry representatives, including the vice president of operations at Energy Fuels Resources, a uranium company that </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uraniumco-bears-ears-carve_us_5a2ddd59e4b073789f6ae643" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="41" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">lobbied Trump to carve up Bears Ears</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> so that it could access the area’s uranium deposits, as The Washington Post </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/uranium-firm-urged-trump-officials-to-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument/2017/12/08/2eea39b6-dc31-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.de9ec7721038" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" 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Roman"><b><b><b><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" style="margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></span></b></b></b></font></font></p><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2594203156" data-authors="Olivia Rosane" data-headline="Trump Moves to Open 1.6 Million Acres of California Public Lands to Fracking" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/donald-trump" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a>&nbsp;administration took the first steps on Wednesday towards opening up 1.6 million acres of public land in California to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fracking/" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fracking</a>&nbsp;and oil drilling,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article216322295.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Sacramento Bee reported</a>.</font></span></font></b></b></b></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/08/08/2018-16957/notice-of-intent-for-potential-amendment-to-the-resource-management-plan-for-the-bakersfield-field" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">notice of intent</a>&nbsp;published on the Federal Register Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said it would prepare an environmental impact statement on the use of fracking on 400,000 acres of public land and 1.2 million acres of mineral estate overseen by BLM in California counties including Fresno, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara,&nbsp;<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/400939-trump-administration-opens-door-to-fracking-in-california" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Hill reported</a>.</font></span></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Concerned citizens have 30 days from Wednesday to comment on the proposal.</font></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The move would lift a five-year moratorium on leasing federal land in California to oil companies,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Center for Biological Diversity</a>&nbsp;(CBD) said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/california-oil-drilling-08-08-2018.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">statement</a>.</font></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It also comes less than a week after the Trump administration&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-fuel-efficiency-proposal-2592345279.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">proposed</a>&nbsp;revoking California's waiver to set its own vehicle emissions standards under the Clean Air Act and just days after Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-says-california-lawmakers-to-blame-for-wildfires-2593274782.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">blamed</a>&nbsp;the state's environmental policies for the record-breaking&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildfires" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wildfires</a>&nbsp;it is currently battling.</font></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's a coordinated attack on California by the Trump administration," CBD senior attorney Clare Lakewood told The Hill.</font></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No federal lands in the state have been leased to oil companies since 2013, when a federal judge found that the BLM had leased land in Monterey County without fully considering the environmental impact of fracking.</font></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmentalists are concerned that fracking can increase the risk of earthquakes and contaminate groundwater, The Sacramento Bee reported.</font></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The later risk is increased in California, a 2015 report from the California Council on Science and Technology found, because fracking in the state happens in areas with shallow depths close to groundwater and uses an especially high amount of toxic chemicals, The CBD reported.</font></span></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Residents of San Luis Obispo are even considering a ballot measure this November that would ban new fracking operations and oil wells in parts of the county that are unincorporated, though it would have no impact on what happens on federal land,&nbsp;</b>The Sacramento Bee reported.</font></font></b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the key movers behind that initiative, Charles Varni of the Coalition to Protect San Luis Obispo County, told The Sacramento Bee that he was angered by the BLM's decision.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We don't want to see any expansion of oil and gas extraction in San Luis Obispo County," he said. "We want to protect our groundwater resources for higher uses."</font></font></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://earthjustice.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Earthjustice</a>&nbsp;</span>attorney Greg Loarie said that, while he was glad that the BLM was investigating the impacts of fracking, he thought such an investigation was a little beside the point.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"[A]nalyzing the impacts of fracking is like analyzing the impacts of smoking cigarettes: there's really no question that more fracking would be terrible for California," he said in the CBD statement.</font></font></b></b></font></p><div class="around-the-web"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</font></font></b></b></font></div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/mexico-bans-fracking-2592125998.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Newly Elected President of Mexico to Ban Fracking ›</font></a></font></b></b></font></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/second-controversial-fracked-gas-pipeline-runs-into-legal-trouble-2593893066.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Second Controversial Fracked Gas Pipeline Runs Into Legal Trouble ›</font></a></font></b></b></font></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://mb.boardhost.com/UntilRitaReturns/msg/1533769616.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Trump officials open door to fracking in California ›</font></a></font></b></b></font></li></ul></div></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></b></b></font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></b></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-admin-takes-advantage-of-california-fires-2594248442.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-admin-takes-advantage-of-california-fires-2594248442.html</font></a></font></b></b></font></p><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-admin-takes-advantage-of-california-fires-2594248442.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Trump Admin. Takes Advantage of California Fires to Funnel More Water From Endangered Fish to Agriculture, Critics Say</font></a></font></b></b></font></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url expanded" data-elid="2594248442" data-authors="Olivia Rosane" data-headline="Trump Admin. Takes Advantage of California Fires to Funnel More Water From Endangered Fish to Agriculture, Critics Say" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><div class="widgetbrief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Commerce Department seemed to take its direction from President&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/donald-trump" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Donald Trump</a>'s Twitter account on Wednesday when it issued a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2018/08/us-secretary-commerce-wilbur-ross-issues-directive-national-marine" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">directive</a>&nbsp;to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to prioritize fighting&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildfires" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">wildfires</a>&nbsp;over protecting&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/endangered-species" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">endangered species</a>&nbsp;when allocating California's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/water" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">water</a>&nbsp;resources,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-administration-politics-water-california-wildfires_us_5b6b8a6de4b0bdd062063481?guccounter=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Huffington Post reported</a>.</font></font></b></b></font></p></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms ease 0s; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The directive comes days after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-says-california-lawmakers-to-blame-for-wildfires-2593274782.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Trump tweeted</a>&nbsp;blaming California's raging wildfires on "bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized."</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Firefighters disagreed with Trump's assessment.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"We have plenty of water to fight these wildfires," Deputy Chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Scott McLean told The Huffington Post on Monday. "It is our changing climate that is leading to more severe and destructive fires."</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But that didn't stop Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross from using an emergency provision of the Endangered Species Act to direct water towards the fires.</font></b></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Today, I direct NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service to make clear to all its Federal agency partners that the protection of life and property takes precedence over any current agreements regarding the use of water in the areas of California affected by wildfires," Ross wrote.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmentalists are concerned this move isn't about the fires at all, but rather an attempt to use the disaster to intervene in a longstanding disagreement between&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/agriculture" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">agriculture</a>, the fishing industry and environmentalists over whether more water should be used to irrigate crops or should be left in rivers to preserve fish species like delta smelt and Chinook&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/salmon" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">salmon</a>.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ross's directive comes one month after the California Water Resources Control Board proposed diverting less water towards cities and farms in an attempt to save the two endangered species.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Secretary Ross's directive is nothing more than a smokescreen designed to weaken these protections that NMFS's scientists determined are necessary to keep these native fish from going extinct. It's almost like the extinction of these creatures is their real goal, so that they no longer have to leave any water in rivers, but can divert it all to corporate agribusiness. The people of California won't stand for Trump destroying our precious resources to line the pockets of his corporate buddies," senior director of the water division for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nrdc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a>&nbsp;Kate Poole said in a statement reported by&nbsp;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-overrides-endangered-species-protections-prioritize-water/story?id=57115350" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">ABC News</a>.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Around 80 percent of all water in California currently goes to agriculture, according to The Huffington Post, but, for Trump allies in the state like Republican Congressman<b>&nbsp;Devin Nunes</b>, that is not enough.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nunes even went so far as to blame the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/drought" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">drought</a>&nbsp;that devastated California from 2011 to 2017 on a misallocation of water resources.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"There was plenty of water," he told The New York Times in 2014, according to The Huffington Post. "This has nothing to do with drought. They can blame global warming all they want, but this is about mathematics and engineering."</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, another department head also seemed to take his cue on the wildfires from a different argument in the same Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026587142989008897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1026587142989008897&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2F2018%2F08%2F06%2Fdonald-trump-california-fires-tweets-764869" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">tweet</a>, in which the president said the state "must also tree clear to stop fire from spreading!"</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Wednesday, Interior Secretary&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;wrote an&nbsp;<a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/08/active-forest-management-prevent-wildfires-column/913801002/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">opinion piece</a>&nbsp;for USA Today in which he blamed the fires in part on a buildup of fuels in forests.</font></b></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He called for more active forest management through logging, controlled burns and "mechanical thinning" and blamed environmentalists for preventing this kind of action.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Yet, when action comes, and we try to thin forests of dead and dying timber, or we try to sustainably harvest timber from dense and fire-prone areas, we are attacked with frivolous litigation from radical environmentalists who would rather see forests and communities burn than see a logger in the woods," he wrote.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, his OpEd doesn't appear to signal any imminent policy change, ABC News reported.</font></font></b></b></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zinke issued a directive last year calling on land managers to be more "aggressive" in clearing dead trees or brush, but Interior Department spokesperson Heather Swift told ABC News that there were no changes in the works this year.</font></font></b></b></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></b></b></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></b></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Sheehan said the move was necessary to provide adequate food for waterfowl.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"There may be situations, however, where use of GMO crop seeds is essential to best fulfill the purposes of the refuge and the needs of birds and other&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildlife" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wildlife</a>," Sheehan wrote.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Boosting waterfowl populations dovetails with the interests of sportspeople who<b>&nbsp;hunt ducks</b>&nbsp;and other birds, and Interior Secretary&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;has made expanding hunting on national lands a priority, Reuters reported.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But environmental groups argue the decision comes at the expense of other species.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated to conservation of biological diversity and the protection of our most vulnerable species, including pollinators like bumble bees and monarch butterflies. The Trump administration's approval to use toxic pesticides and genetically modified crops is an insult to our national wildlife refuges and the wildlife that rely on them," President and CEO of<b>&nbsp;<a href="https://defenders.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Defenders of Wildlife</a>&nbsp;</b><a href="https://defenders.org/staff/jamie-rappaport-clark" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">J</a>amie Rappaport Clark said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://newsroom.defenders.org/trump-administration-opens-national-wildlife-refuges-to-pollinator-poisons-and-harmful-gmos/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">statement</a>.</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pesticides in question,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/neonicotinoids" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">neonicotinoids</a>, have been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/bees-neonicotinoids-ban-europe-2563782231.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">banned in the EU</a>&nbsp;after research linked them to the decline in the populations of bees and other pollinators.</font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Kurth, head of the refuge system under Obama, announced the ban in 2014, arguing that the use of neonicotinoids led to plants whose tissues harmed "non-target" species. Moreover, he said that "refuges throughout the country successfully meet wildlife management objectives without" genetically modified crops or the pesticides they are engineered to withstand, Reuters reported.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defenders of Wildlife further noted that the populations of game birds like geese and ducks are currently doing fine without the help of genetically modified crops.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sheehan, however, has reversed the blanket ban and said that the use of genetically modified crops and neonicotinoids would be considered in the more than 50 farming-friendly refuges on a case-by-case basis.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The move came a<b>&nbsp;day after California's Department of Pesticide Regulation released a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/registration/reevaluation/chemicals/neonicotinoid_risk_determination.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">risk assessment</a>&nbsp;finding that the use of four neonicotinoids on certain crops, including the corn and sorghum often grown in refuges, could cause more harm to pollinators than previously thought,</b>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/pesticides-gmos-national-wildlife-refuges-08-04-2018.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Center for Biological Diversity reported</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Agricultural pesticides, especially bee-killing neonics, have no place on our national wildlife refuges," senior&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">C<b>enter for Biological Diversity</b></a><b>&nbsp;</b>attorney Hannah Connor said. 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Quietly Awards Dozens of Lion Trophy Permits to Hunters, GOP Donors</span></font></b></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px;" /></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2590084960" data-authors="Lorraine Chow" data-headline="Trump Admin. Quietly Awards Dozens of Lion Trophy Permits to Hunters, GOP Donors" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued more than three dozen permits for hunters to bring back&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/lions" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lion</a>trophy parts from Zimbabwe and Zambia between 2016-2018, according to copies of the permits obtained by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The documents were obtained by&nbsp;<a href="https://friendsofanimals.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Friends of Animals</a>&nbsp;and reported by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lion-trophies-us-government_us_5b594812e4b0fd5c73cb950a" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Huffington Post</a>&nbsp;on Thursday. Thirty-three hunters received a total of 38 lion trophy permits, according to the animal advocacy nonprofit.</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="text-align: center;">More than half of those hunters donated to Republican lawmakers or have ties to hunting advocacy group&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.safariclub.org/" target="blank" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">Safari Club International</a><span style="text-align: center;">, Friends of Animals said.</span></font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The permits show that the current administration, not only has loosened restrictions on lion hunting, but is rewarding supporters," the nonprofit said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://friendsofanimals.org/news/u-s-hunters-with-connections-to-trump-received-fws-permits-to-hunt-african-lions-under-loosened-restrictions/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">press release</a>.&nbsp; The report follows the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a>&nbsp;administration's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/elephant-trophy-imports-trump-2543499754.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">move in March</a>&nbsp;to allow&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/elephants" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">elephant</a>&nbsp;and lion trophy imports from Zimbabwe and Zambia on a case by case basis, a reversal from President Trump's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/elephant-trophy-imports-trump-zinke-2511054939.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">previous statements</a>&nbsp;that his administration would keep the Obama-era ban on imports of the animals.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last year, Secretary of the Interior&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/big-game-hunter-dead-giraffe-2583505970.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;created an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/11/08/2017-24328/international-wildlife-conservation-council-establishment-request-for-nominations" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">advisory committee</a>&nbsp;called the International Wildlife Conservation Council that is mainly comprised of trophy hunters and members of Safari Club International.</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fish and Wildlife Service did not respond to HuffPost's request for comment.</font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among the hunters who received a permit was Steven Chancellor, a wealthy Indiana businessman and major GOP donor who raised more than $1 million for Republican candidates at a fundraiser at his home headlined by Donald Trump in 2016,&nbsp;</span>Friends of Animals said. Chancellor—an avid hunter who has<b>&nbsp;registered 482 confirmed kills, including&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">18 lions</span>, between 1980 and 2008</b>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/columnists/jon-webb/2018/03/27/webb-big-game-hunting-whatever-you-want-and-thats-problem/461204002/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Courier & Press</a>&nbsp;reported—is an appointee on Sec. Zinke's International Wildlife Conservation Council. He was allowed to import lion parts from a July 2016 hunt in Zimbabwe, according to the FOIA request.</font></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another hunter who received permits was Virginia resident Kent Greenawalt, who has donated more than $100,000 to Republican candidates and committees and $5,400 to Trump.</span>&nbsp;He was allowed to bring back lion trophies after a hunt in Zambia in 2017 and another hunt in Zimbabwe in 2016, Friends of Animals revealed.</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Big game hunters&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/big-game-hunter-dead-giraffe-2583505970.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">say</a>&nbsp;their sport provides a service through game management and the trophy hunting fees provide revenue that directly funds conservation and contributes to African economies.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, opponents say that killing the animals is wrong and endangers vulnerable populations.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If African wildlife is to survive the next few decades in their homelands, these elephants, lions and other animals—coveted by hunters for their strength and beauty—must be worth more alive than dead," said Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral in the press release. "That means safeguarding habitat along with photographic safaris and ecotourism must outpace blood-drenched trophy hunting expeditions. Trophy hunting must expire and collapse from its own dead weight. Let's press for an administration that stops catering to an industry that has actually been in decline with a dwindling number of hunters."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/science/trump-elephant-trophy-hunting.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The New York Times</a>&nbsp;reported that Fish and Wildlife Service previously made determinations about trophies publicly available, but under new rules, interested parties must file a FOIA request to see details of the permits.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><ul class="bullets" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><li id="p-6" data-page="51857" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mail or hand-carry nominations to Joshua Winchell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803; or</font></li><li id="p-7" data-page="51857" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Email nominations to:&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><a date="11/08/2017" href="mailto:joshua_winchell@fws.gov" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box;">joshua_winchell@fws.gov</a></span></font></li></ul><h1 id="further-info" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; clear: both; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</font></h1><p id="p-8" data-page="51857" class="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em -30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joshua Winchell, Council Designated Federal Officer, by U.S. mail at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803; by telephone at (703) 358-2639; or by email at&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><a date="11/08/2017" href="mailto:joshua_winchell@fws.gov" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box;">joshua_winchell@fws.gov</a>.</em></font></p><h1 id="h-7" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; clear: both; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</font></h1><p id="p-9" data-page="51857" class="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em -30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Council is established under the authority of the Secretary and regulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2). The duties of the Council are solely advisory and include, but are not limited to<b>: Developing a plan for public engagement and education on the benefits of international hunting;&nbsp;</b><span class="printed-page printed-page-inline unprinted-element icon-fr2 icon-fr2-doc-generic document-markup" data-page="51858" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; text-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 1; speak: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="printed-page-wrapper unprinted-element-wrapper" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -150px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: right; line-height: 1; position: relative; right: -150px; text-indent: -17px; width: 110px; top: 6px;"><span class="unprinted-element-border" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="printed-page unprinted-element cj-fancy-tooltip document-markup" id="page-51858" data-page="51858" data-text="Start Printed Page 51858" data-tooltip-template="#print-page-tooltip-template" data-tooltip-data="{" page="page" original-title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="icon-fr2 icon-fr2-doc-generic" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 1; speak: none;"><span class="text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">Start Printed Page 51858</span></span></span></span></span>reviewing and making recommendations for changes, when needed, on all Federal programs, and/or regulations, to ensure support of hunting as: (a) An enhancement to foreign wildlife conservation and survival, and (b) an effective tool to combat illegal trafficking and poaching; recommending strategies to benefit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's permit office in receiving timely country data and information so as to remove barriers that impact consulting with range states; recommending removal of barriers to the importation into the United States of legally hunted wildlife; ongoing review of import suspension/bans and providing recommendations that seek to resume the legal trade of those items, where appropriate; reviewing seizure and forfeiture actions/practices, and&nbsp;<b>providing recommendations for regulations that will lead to a reduction of unwarranted actions;</b>&nbsp;reviewing the Endangered Species Act's foreign listed species and interaction with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, with the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">goal of eliminating regulatory duplications; and recommending methods for streamlining/expediting the process of import permits.</span></span></font></p><p id="p-10" data-page="51858" class="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em -30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Council will meet approximately two times per year. The Secretary will appoint members and their alternates to the Council to serve up to a 3-year term. The Council will not exceed 18 discretionary members and 4 ex officio members.</font></p><p id="p-11" data-page="51858" class="single-line" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em -30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ex officio members will include:</font></p><ul class="bullets" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><li id="p-12" data-page="51858" class="single-line" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary of the Interior or designated DOI representatives; and</font></li><li id="p-13" data-page="51858" class="single-line" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary of State or designated Department of State representatives.</font></li></ul><p id="p-14" data-page="51858" class="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em -30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The remaining members will be selected from among, but not limited to, the entities listed below. These members must be senior-level representatives of their organizations and/or have the ability to represent their designated constituency.</font></p><ul class="bullets" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><li id="p-15" data-page="51858" class="single-line" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wildlife and habitat conservation/management organizations;</font></li><li id="p-16" data-page="51858" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. hunters actively engaged in international and/or domestic hunting conservation;</font></li><li id="p-17" data-page="51858" class="single-line" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firearms or ammunition manufacturing industry;</font></li><li id="p-18" data-page="51858" class="single-line" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Archery and/or hunting sports industry; and</font></li><li id="p-19" data-page="51858" class="single-line" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: -15px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tourism, outfitter, and/or guide industries related to international hunting.</font></li></ul><p id="p-20" data-page="51858" class="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em -30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nominations should include a resume providing an adequate description of the nominee's qualifications, including information that would enable DOI to make an informed decision regarding meeting the membership requirements of the Council and to permit DOI to contact a potential member.</font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">legis ltr ~&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ad-international.org/admin/downloads/adi_2ed76b5714dbdd5602c4ecdb810d79b7.16">https://www.ad-international.org/admin/downloads/adi_2ed76b5714dbdd5602c4ecdb810d79b7.16</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/25/trumps_war_on_the_environment_from"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/25/trumps_war_on_the_environment_from</font></a></p><p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While climate change denier Scott Pruitt has been ousted as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency over a slew of corruption scandals and his close ties to industry lobbyists, the Trump administration’s war on the environment and environmental regulations continues unabated. For more on the government’s attacks on public land protections and key regulations like California’s fuel emissions standards, we speak with Kierán Suckling, executive director and a founder of the Center for Biological Diversity.</font></span></p><p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">GONZÁLEZ:</strong>&nbsp;Well, you mentioned greenhouse gas emissions, but the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Trump administration is also seeking to revoke California’s authority to set its own tougher automobile emissions standards. On Tuesday, acting&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span>&nbsp;Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the U.S. needs a single standard for fuel efficiency for cars and trucks.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">KIERÁN&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SUCKLING</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Yeah, this is really outrageous, because the way our Clean Air Act works is it allows states to set standards if they’re higher than the federal government. And so, for 48 years running now, California has had a higher standard. It’s had that through administrations Democratic and Republican, conservative and liberal. No one’s had a problem with it, until Trump. And so, partly, this is his effect—efforts to reduce any attempt to control global warming, but it’s also clearly a personal agenda to attack California, which he believes is just generally a hostile element to him personally, and so, consequently, we have this incredibly irrational act, especially when, for example, you’ve got Barrasso talking about state’s rights: “Let’s empower the states.” Well, these Republicans only want to empower the states when the states have a lower protective standard. The second a state has a higher standard, all of a sudden all concerns about state rights go out the window, and we have to go to a federal single authority that’s going to reduce environmental protection.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">AMY</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Kierán, what about the record of the interior secretary, Ryan Zinke? You have&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">ThinkProgress</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/interior-zinke-public-lands-oil-drilling-d8a4cc51c5d2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border: 0px;">saying</a>&nbsp;documents released by the Department of Interior, then retracted a day later, revealed the agency officials dismissed evidence that public lands provide numerous benefits in favor of prioritizing fossil fuel interests, along with ranching and logging, and then&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CNN</span>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/politics/zinke-calendar-omissions/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border: 0px;">reporting</a>&nbsp;Zinke is meeting with people that are not on the public record. For example, met with Congressman Chris Collins, a New York Republican, who was the first in Congress to endorse Trump’s presidential candidacy. That was according to the official calendar. But Zinke’s calendar didn’t show who else was in the room: three representatives of a company that do business with the National Park Service—one of about of a dozen instances uncovered by&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CNN</span>&nbsp;of Zinke’s calendar omitting who he’s actually meeting with.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">KIERÁN&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SUCKLING</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Yeah<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Zinke, I think, is going to go down as one of the worst interior secretaries in history. And his actions are very, very similar to what Scott Pruitt was doing over at&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span>&nbsp;before he was forced to resign. And that is that he’s aggressively trying to avoid all environmental laws</span>. He’s meeting with industry groups constantly and then hiding that, rather than simply admitting to what he’s doing in public. And the agenda is always the same: You know, what can he do to allow public lands to be destroyed? What can he do to allow more oil and gas drilling, even if it’s polluting local communities, poisoning children? It’s really a disaster.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He has turned this agency, which is supposed to be in charge of America’s land, air, water and species, into a handout program for industry, and then going so far as to just erase all this from his calendar, from his meeting notes, to take decisions from lower officials who are trying to do their job, and erase all references to issues which harms their agenda.</b>&nbsp;And in particular what you’ll see is that protecting public lands, especially on national monuments, is really good for local economies, but instead they’ll erase all that information and say, “Oh, this is hurting local economies.” And it’s not just immoral, it’s illegal. And it’s the reason why this agency gets sued so much.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">JUAN</span>&nbsp;GONZÁLEZ:</strong>&nbsp;And staying on the Interior Department and Zinke, the department has also commissioned an expedited environmental review of the impact of leasing part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now, this is a decades-long battle that the industry, the oil and gas industry, has not been able to win. What is happening here? And what could be the potential impact of this new expedited review?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">KIERÁN&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SUCKLING</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Yeah, this is very concerning.&nbsp;<b>The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,</b>&nbsp;off the coast of Alaska, has been sought after by the oil industry for many, many decades now and has always been stopped, because it’s such a crown jewel of environmental protection, and there are so many other areas available for drilling. So, Zinke now has expedited efforts to review proposed drilling up there, brought on millions of dollars of new money, which apparently don’t exist to do anything else in government, more staff, and he wants to push through, at a very rapid clip, a decision to open this up to more drilling. And he’s throwing all the environmental standards, review processes out the window. And I think it’s partly because<b>&nbsp;he knows time is limited up there for him, and he wants this to become his legacy, the guy who opened up America’s biggest, most important wildlife refuge to oil drilling.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">AMY</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Kierán Suckling, we are speaking to you in Portland, Oregon. In Yosemite right now, the national park, thousands of people are being evacuated because of terrible wildfires. I want to ask you about something else that happened in Oregon. Earlier this month, Donald Trump pardoned Dwight Hammond and his son Steven Hammond, two Oregon cattle ranchers who were convicted in 2012 of committing arson on federal lands. Prosecutors say the Hammonds set the fires to cover up their illegal deer poaching. Their conviction sparked armed right-wing militiamen, led by Ammon Bundy, to take over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, provoking a 41-day armed standoff in 2016. Can you comment on this and what message President Trump was sending with this, these pardons?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">KIERÁN&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SUCKLING</span>:</strong>&nbsp;This is very disturbing, because the Hammonds not only were arsonists who set fire to our public lands, threatening firefighters who were out there, but have a long history of threatening to kill federal officials. And when the Bundy militia group came up to support them when they were prosecuted, they came up there with the message of not just let’s help the Hammonds, but let’s give all of America’s public lands away to industry and state groups.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And so, when Trump is pardoning these people,</b>&nbsp;he’s really signaling—sending a signal to this right-wing base to say, “Hey, anti-government extremism, threats of violence against those you don’t like, against the government, are acceptable.” They’re encouraged. And, in fact, earlier, when he pardoned Joe Arpaio, another very controversial action, well, it turns out Joe Arpaio, Sheriff Joe, was also a supporter of this Bundy group and this radical, violent agenda. And I think it goes along with Trump gearing up this violent undercurrent in America to support him and to drive fear into others.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">JUAN</span>&nbsp;GONZÁLEZ:</strong>&nbsp;Last week, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh submitted to the Senate his responses to a lengthy questionnaire as part of the confirmation process. Responding to a question about the 10 most significant cases over which he sat,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kavanaugh cited his dissenting opinion in&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">White Stallion Energy Center v.&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span></em>, in which he argued that the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span>&nbsp;must consider financial costs when deciding whether to regulate emissions from power plants. Kavanaugh wrote in the questionnaire, quote, “In my view, it was unreasonable—and therefore unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act—for&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span>&nbsp;not to consider the costs imposed by regulations in determining whether such regulations were 'appropriate and necessary.'</span>” I’m wondering your thoughts on, if Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed for the Supreme Court, what the impact of this would be on environmental laws in the future.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">KIERÁN&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SUCKLING</span>:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Well, it would be extraordinary. I mean, Trump has already had one appointee on the Supreme Court. If he gets the second, he will likely be able to control the whole judicial agenda for environmental protection in this country. And that’s incredibly important, because right now the strongest, most powerful force of resistance against Trump is our legal system. And that’s because virtually everything he wants to do is illegal. The people he’s put in place, like Zinke and Pruitt, to carry out his agenda have such disdain for governance. They don’t even know how to do governmental process properly, so they’re continually sued, they’re continually found guilty. And that’s keeping America on track, this independent judiciary. So,&nbsp;<b>if Trump captures the Supreme Court, we’re going to find he’s got an open agenda to do whatever he wants. And so, it’s very, very dangerous and disheartening.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">AMY</span>&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong>&nbsp;We just have a few seconds, but, Kierán Suckling, your organization, the Center for Biological Diversity, has sued the Trump administration 81 times in this last year and a half? Have you had any success?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">KIERÁN&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SUCKLING</span>:</strong>&nbsp;Yeah, we’ve actually won most of those cases. It’s been about one a week. And of those that have completed, we’ve won most of those cases. And it just shows you the power of our independent legal system and our independent judiciary to address excesses of power, even by the president of the United State</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important;"><strong><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=u6vaSDaEnRTdae3k2qOSbg"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">safety standards are at risk of being rolled back at the bidding of<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;offshore oil drilling</span>&nbsp;companies—and we need your&nbsp;help.</font></a></strong></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Well Control Rule, finalized in 2016, requires real-time oversight of risky drilling operations and precautionary failsafe measures to stop a spill when things go wrong. Last year the Trump administration began rewriting the rule, which the fossil fuel industry regards as a&nbsp;“burden.”</font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the Trump administration’s ongoing push for more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and its proposal to open virtually every mile of coastline to new oil and gas rigs, now is not the time to tinker with offshore safety and environmental&nbsp;standards.</font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2018/interior-moves-to-erode-key-protection-standard-on-offshore-oil-and-gas-drilling">https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2018/interior-moves-to-erode-key-protection-standard-on-offshore-oil-and-gas-drilling</a>?ga=2.47805924.253773879.1532379284-1627324521.1532379284</font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a<span style="font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase;">PRIL 27, 2018</span></font></p><div class="panel-pane pane-custom pane-1 font-large no-top-padding last" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="pane-partial-border" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C. —&nbsp;</font><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 28.8px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Only a week after the anniversary of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Department of the Interior today announced its intended rollback of protection standards enacted to prevent another&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deepwater Horizon</i>&nbsp;tragedy. The well control rule, finalized under President Obama in 2016, requires real-time oversight of risky drilling operations and precautionary failsafe measures to stop a spill when things go wrong. Interior officials began re-writing the rule after President Trump issued an executive order last year calling for offshore drilling controls — regarded as a “burden” by the fossil fuel industry — to be rolled back.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 28.8px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On a stakeholder call today, officials from the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement&nbsp;</span>emphasized the number of provisions affected, not the substance of the protections they provide. While details will be clear once the proposal is issued, this rule change is clearly designed to take regulators out of the process rather than increase any oversight.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 28.8px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The following is a statement from&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Steve Mashuda, Managing Attorney for Oceans at Earthjustice</strong>:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 28.8px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“History has already taught us the lesson that when the oil industry drills, it spills. The administration’s attempt to erode commonsense safety and environmental protections designed to prevent another tragedy on the scale of&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deepwater Horizon</i>&nbsp;is deeply troubling. With Interior’s ongoing push for more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and its proposal to open virtually every mile of coastline to new oil and gas rigs, now is not the time to tinker with safety and environmental standards. Americans deserve better than this dangerous and unnecessary race to expose our coastal communities and treasured marine environments to the risk of devastating oil spills. Our energy future lies in clean renewable energy, not at the bottom of the ocean — and not at the bottom of the regulatory barrel.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 28.8px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The draft rule will now be sent to the Federal Register to be published next week, and agency officials will accept public comment on the proposal for 60 days.</font></p></div></div><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px;"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/deepwater-horizon-investigation-trump-2561729233.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Deepwater Horizon Anniversary: Trump Administration Ignores Advice on Preventing Explosions, Injuries, Blowouts</font></a></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url expanded" data-elid="2561729233" data-authors="Center for Biological Diversity" data-headline="Deepwater Horizon Anniversary: Trump Administration Ignores Advice on Preventing Explosions, Injuries, Blowouts" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><div class="widgetbrief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Trump</a>&nbsp;administration is ignoring advice from the bipartisan commission that investigated the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/bp" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">BP</a>&nbsp;Deepwater Horizon disaster as officials move to repeal&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/offshore-oil-drilling" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">offshore drilling</a>&nbsp;safety regulations adopted in its aftermath.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Friday is the eighth anniversary of the explosion that killed 11 oil workers and caused more than 210 million gallons of oil to flow uncontrolled into the Gulf of Mexico for more than three months, killing thousands of marine mammals and birds.</font></p></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms ease 0s; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Deepwater Horizon was a deadly reminder that offshore drilling is dangerous. Refusing to learn from this disaster threatens workers, wildlife and coastal communities," said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director at the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Center for Biological Diversity</a>. "Trump's plans to get rid of safety rules dishonor the dead and ramp up the risk of another catastrophe."</font></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMG ESA</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/animal-rights/trump-administration-erodes-protections-endangered-animals-developers-new-attack"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/animal-rights/trump-administration-erodes-protections-endangered-animals-developers-new-attack</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">kitty bock HSUSA</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...Now, a new action by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency puts at further peril endangered and threatened animals in the United States.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The FWS has issued a memorandum prohibiting agency staff from even telling developers when they are required to file for a permit before they begin development projects on properties that could degrade the habitats of endangered and threatened species.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/interior-warns-staffers-to-keep-mum-about-mandatory-endangered-species-protections_us_5aecee82e4b0ab5c3d65b4f7" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Huffington Post</a>, the memo, issued last month by the agency's principal deputy director Greg Sheehan, says it's "not appropriate" for staff to tell developers when they need to obtain such a permit—even though it may be required by law in many circumstances.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The situation is pretty simple to understand: the survival of wildlife depends on biologically healthy and intact ecosystems and habitats, and our government should be giving the benefit of the doubt to imperiled species, not to commercial interests. Notification of the requirement to secure a permit is not onerous red tape; it’s a sign of a functional and effective government.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I have written before about Sheehan, who is closely associated with&nbsp;<a data-stamped="true" href="https://blog.humanesociety.org/2015/09/report-exposes-safari-club-international-trophy-madness.html?credit=blog_post_051118_idhome-page" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Safari Club International</a>, a membership club for American trophy hunters</b>. In March, Sheehan greenlighted the lifting of existing bans on the import of elephant and lion trophies from certain African countries and signaled that FWS will approve such imports on a case-by-case basis—a decision that the Humane Society of the United States is challenging in federal court.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last year the FWS prematurely and unlawfully&nbsp;<a data-stamped="true" href="https://blog.humanesociety.org/2018/04/alert-help-us-stop-wyoming-idaho-opening-trophy-hunts-yellowstone-grizzlies.html?credit=blog_post_051118_idhome-page" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">removed ESA protections for grizzly bears</a>&nbsp;in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, leading states in the region to move to open up a trophy hunting season for these great bears.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pandering to commercial interests and reducing transparency has become an alarming tendency for this administration, especially at the Department of the Interior. These furtive and reckless actions put at risk the beautiful wildlife that we all, as Americans, enjoy, cherish and wish to protect. We’ve got to stand up for wildlife, by standing strong against misguided moves by federal agencies charged with the protection of wild animal species.<b>The FWS has also established an "advisory board" stocked with trophy hunters, giving them a platform to destroy any and all barriers to international trophy hunting and the import of trophy heads and parts by U.S. citizens.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/interior-warns-staffers-to-keep-mum-about-mandatory-endangered-species-protections_us_5aecee82e4b0ab5c3d65b4f7</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="1" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New guidelines issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior now prohibit staff members from informing private interests when they must obtain a permit before they can develop properties where activities may affect habitats of endangered species.</font></b></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="2" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A <a href="https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/Guidance-on-When-to-Seek-an-Incidental-Take-Permit.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">memorandum issued last month</a> by the Fish and Wildlife Service principal deputy director, <b>Greg Sheehan,</b> declared that it’s “not appropriate” for staff to tell developers when they need to obtain such a permit — even though it may be required by law in many circumstances.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="3" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under a section of the 1973 <a href="https://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Endangered Species Act</a>, businesses and individuals must request what’s called an “incidental take permit”&nbsp;if they believe their developments could interfere with the habitats of endangered species.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="4" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sheehan insists in his memo that it’s the “decision of the applicant” whether or not to apply for such a permit.&nbsp;Staff members should not use&nbsp;“mandatory language (e.g., a permit is ‘required’),”&nbsp;the memo warns.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="5" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The biological, legal, and economic risk assessment regarding whether to seek a permit belongs with the private party determining how to proceed,” Sheehan said.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="6" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staffers will still be able to provide “critical technical assistance” when it’s requested, according to the memo.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="7" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The memo also appears to sharply limit situations where such permits may be required.</b> That includes only cases “where a non-federal project is<b> <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">likely</em></b> to result in a ‘take’ of a listed species of fish or wildlife&nbsp;... habitat modification, in and of itself, does not necessarily constitute take,” according to the memo. That would seem to imply such a decision would rely on the judgment of a private interest with a commercial business at stake.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="8" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Sheehan was the official who announced to trophy hunting lobby group Safari Club International </b>in Tanzania last year that the <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/trump-administration/" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Trump administration</a> was <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-lift-ban-elephant-trophies_us_5a0cb765e4b0c0b2f2f78878" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">lifting an Obama-era ban on elephant trophies</a>&nbsp;from two African nations, Zimbabwe and Zambia.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Donald Trump</a> later held off on the action, but the ban was officially lifted again on a <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-elephant-trophies_us_5a9e218ee4b0a0ba4ad7376b" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">“case-by-case basis”</a>&nbsp;in March.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="9" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He’s considered among the Interior officials “behind the curtain who are really, really changing our public lands and setting a future direction that may or <a href="http://therevelator.org/zinke-aides-under-radar/" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">may not be consistent with what the law requires</a>,” <a href="http://environment.yale.edu/profile/lyons" target="blank" rel="noopener" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Jim Lyons</a>, a research scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, told The Revelator.</font></p></div><div id="inline-newsletter_placeholder" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="10" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Environmental advocates have criticized Sheehan’s newest edict as a way to weaken regulations with the kind of single-handed action that has been a hallmark of the Trump administration.</b>&nbsp;Noah Greenwald of the environmental nonprofit <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:10;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Center for Biological Diversity</a>&nbsp;told The Hill that he believes it will be <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">harder to enforce requirements protecting habitats of endangered species because there will <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/386278-interior-guidance-disallows-employees-from-telling-builders-they" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:10;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">no longer be a record of permit recommendations</a>.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="11" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The memo is the latest erosion of wildlife protections by the Trump administration.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="12" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The administration is also battling blanket safeguards when a species is declared threatened. Under the Endangered Species Act, once a species is listed as threatened, a series of protections&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/factsheets/ESA%20SpecialRules%20Factsheet_020714.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:12;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">automatically go into effect</a>. Under a proposed new rule, specific protections would be decided on a case by case basis.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="13" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An <a href="https://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/esastatus/e-vs-t.htm" target="blank" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:13;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">endangered species</a> is at risk of extinction, while a threatened species is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future.&nbsp;<a href="https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp0/reports/ad-hoc-species-report?kingdom=V&kingdom=I&status=E&status=T&status=EmE&status=EmT&status=EXPE&status=EXPN&status=SAE&status=SAT&mapstatus=3&fcrithab=on&fstatus=on&fspecrule=on&finvpop=on&fgroup=on&header=Listed+Animals" target="blank" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:13;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Threatened species</a> include such animals as manatees, sea otters, the Guadalupe fur seal, wood bison, the gray wolf, the grizzly, the polar bear and the northern spotted owl. There are more than 300 threatened animal and plant species in the U.S. More than 500 animal species are endangered in the U.S.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="14" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last month, Interior Secretary Ryan <b>Zinke tapped Susan Combs </b>— a rancher and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/04/a-fierce-opponent-of-the-endangered-species-act-is-picked-to-oversee-interiors-wildlife-policy/?twitter_impression=true&utm_term=.3747be3d08d4" target="blank" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:14;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">fierce opponent of the Endangered Species Act</a> with strong ties to the oil industry — to serve as acting secretary for fish, wildlife and parks.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/04/a-fierce-opponent-of-the-endangered-species-act-is-picked-to-oversee-interiors-wildlife-policy</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy and Environment</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A fierce opponent of the Endangered Species Act is picked to oversee Interior’s wildlife policy</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Darryl Fears</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 4</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susan Combs leaves a meeting with then President-elect Donald Trump on Dec. 30, 2016, at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Republican chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), played a role in delaying Susan Combs’ nomination to become assistant secretary for policy, management and budget for the Interior Department. This report has been updated.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susan Combs, a former Texas state official who compared proposed endangered species listings to “incoming Scud missiles” and continued to fight the Endangered Species Act after she left government, now has a role in overseeing federal wildlife policy.</font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Combs was selected by Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke as acting secretary for fish, wildlife and parks. Zinke made the move after his bid to make her an assistant secretary for policy, management and budget stalled in the Senate. The nomination has been on hold since July because of opposition from Republicans and Democrats for various reasons.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At first, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said, too many committee members weren’t available.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Later, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) held up the nomination over concerns about the administration’s bid to drill for oil off Atlantic and Pacific coast states including Florida, even after Zinke’s assurance to the state’s governor that drilling would not happen there.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nelson vowed to keep the holds in place until Zinke rescinds the …five-year drilling plan… and “replaces it with a new draft plan that preserves the current moratorium in the eastern Gulf of Mexico beyond 2022 and fully protects all of Florida’s coasts from the threat of both offshore drilling and seismic testing,” according to a statement sent by his office.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Seemingly in retaliation, Zinke made the new appointment,&nbsp;</b>first reported by the Austin American-Statesman last week.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaking last month at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.&nbsp; (Andrew Harnik/AP)</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Of course we would rather have Susan Combs confirmed and in her intended position as assistant secretary for policy, management and budge?t,” Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift said in an emailed statement Tuesday.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Until then, she will serve in an acting capacity,” Swift said. She described Combs as “highly qualified</b>” and said Interior officials “are more than confident that she will be an effective manager at Fish and Wildlife and Parks while she patiently awaits her Senate confirmation.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zinke has teamed with lawmakers in the House in a bid to strip the Endangered Species Act of much of its power. Several bills would remove the act’s provisions to save species from extinction regardless of the economic impact, rely on peer-reviewed scientific data and<b>&nbsp;reward conservation organizations that successfully sue to protect animals by paying their court costs.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Combs is a rancher and former Texas comptroller with strong ties to the oil industry whose politics align with efforts to weaken the law. As comptroller, she fought the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service repeatedly over its attempts to enforce the Endangered Species Act in the state. In a 2015 report, the Austin American-Statesman showed how Combs worked to&nbsp;<b>remove endangered protections for a native state songbird, the golden-cheeked warbler, claiming that its listing hurt military readiness.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Following a successful bid to keep a tiny lizard off the endangered list in 2012, Combs hailed the decision as a victory for state jobs and the national energy economy.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" /></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A year later, in an appearance before the legislature, Combs made the “incoming Scud missiles” remark, the newspaper reported. It uncovered records showing that she disagreed with “nearly every listing proposal from Washington,” questioning the science, estimates of their economic impact and the amount of resident input.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EW</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">R<a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/us-government-scientists-media-2580336653.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;">eport: Trump Admin. Suppressing Media Access of Government Scientists</a></font></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url expanded" data-elid="2580336653" data-authors="Lorraine Chow" data-headline="Report: Trump Admin. Suppressing Media Access of Government Scientists" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><div class="widgetbrief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Trump</a>&nbsp;administration protocol requires U.S. Geological Survey (<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/usgs" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">USGS</a>) scientists to run interview requests with the Department of the Interior, its parent agency, before speaking to journalists, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-policy-usgs-scientists-20180621-story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Los Angeles Times</a>&nbsp;reported.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The move is a departure from past media practices that allowed government scientists to quickly respond to journalists' inquiries, according to unnamed USGS employees interviewed by the Times.</font></p></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms ease 0s; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The scientists fear the new rule would give taxpayers less exposure to USGS expertise, as journalists would seek scientific comments elsewhere.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In the 44 years I was with the agency, I was never required to go through anyone for authorization to speak with a reporter," William Ellsworth, a former USGS scientist who is now at Stanford University told the Times. "The USGS is a nonpolitical science agency ... These new roadblocks will not help them fulfill their mission."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientists with USGS study the country's landscape, its natural resources and its natural hazards. The department also measures and analyzes natural and man-made factors that contribute to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a>—an issue that has become&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/gop-federal-grants-climate-change-2580081151.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">increasingly partisan</a>&nbsp;since Donald Trump became president.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The LA Times cited a April 25 email from Interior press secretary Heather Swift stating that it is standard procedure for scientists to first obtain approval for interviews with media outlets when the topics are considered "very controversial or ... likely to become a national story."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new policy also allows Interior's communications office to turn down interview requests on certain topics, the Times reported.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Faith Vander Voort told the newspaper in an email that "the characterization that there is any new policy or that it for some reason targets scientists is completely false," and that Interior had only asked the USGS public affairs office to follow guidelines established in 2012 under President Obama.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, the guidelines do not say that scientists must get approval before speaking with reporters.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, a 2015&nbsp;<a href="https://www2.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/500/500-5.html" target="blank" title="https://www2.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/500/500-5.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">USGS manual</a>&nbsp;on news release and media relations policy states: "The USGS supports and encourages employees to speak on behalf of the USGS to news media representatives about their official work and freely and openly discuss scientific, scholarly, technical information, findings and conclusions based on their official, published work or area of expertise."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A number of senior employees have left the Interior department headed by former Montana congressman&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ryan Zinke</a>. Earlier this year, nearly all members of the National Park Service advisory panel abruptly quit in protest of the Trump administration's policies, which they say have neglected science, climate change and environmental protections.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We resigned because we were deeply disappointed with the department and we were concerned," the former head of the panel, Tony Knowles, told the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/climate/trump-national-parks.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">New York Times</a>. "[Zinke] appears to have no interest in continuing the agenda of science, the effect of climate change, pursuing the protection of the ecosystem.</font></p></div></div></div><div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/scientists-climate-change-language-us-2545036053.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Scientists Under Scrutiny in Newly Revealed Interior Department ... ›</font></a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/center-science-and-democracy/promoting-scientific-integrity/2018-federal-scientists-survey" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">2018 Federal Scientists Survey FAQ | Union of Concerned Scientists ›</font></a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/26/government-scientists-at-u-s-climate-conference-terrified-to-speak-with-the-press/" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Government Scientists at U.S. Climate Conference Terrified to ... ›</font></a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-resist-idUSKBN15A0DI" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Defying Trump, Twitter feeds for U.S. government scientists go rogue ... ›</font></a></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eight U.S. senators called for an investigation today after a federal climate scientist filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that he had been arbitrarily reassigned by the Trump administration in what he believed was retaliation for speaking out publicly about the dangers&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">climate change</a>&nbsp;poses to Alaska Native communities.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The scientist, Joel Clement, had been working on climate adaptation in Alaska for the Department of Interior when he was moved to an obscure accounting position that deals with fossil fuel royalty payments.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The senators, all members of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/members" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee</a>, asked the deputy inspector general in the Department of Interior to look into allegations that as many as 50 Senior Executive Service employees at the department have been arbitrarily reassigned.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We believe that any reassignment of highly trained, highly competent senior executives within the department from the positions in which they may best use their training and competence to accomplish the department's mission and best serve the public interest to sinecures where their talents are wasted would constitute a serious act of mismanagement, a gross waste of public funds, and an abuse of authority,"&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=files.serve&File_id=A8DB3B66-E5B6-43D8-A98F-DEC7E512E51D" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">the senators wrote</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Senior Executive Service was created to provide continuity in the management of public programs, with career experts in their subject areas serving under the political appointees. Under&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3131" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">the law</a>, agency heads can reassign senior executives, provided the changes are made "to best accomplish the agency's mission."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Any suggestion that the department is reassigning SES employees to force them to resign, to silence their voices, or to punish them for the conscientious performance of their public duties is extremely troubling and calls for the closest examination," the senators wrote. No Republicans signed the letter.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter came just days after Clement, formerly the director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the Interior Department, filed a formal complaint about his reassignment and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-a-scientist-the-trump-administration-reassigned-me-for-speaking-up-about-climate-change/2017/07/19/389b8dce-6b12-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">published an op-ed</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Washington Post</em>&nbsp;describing his experience.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072017/whistleblower-trump-intimidation-abuse-power-climate-scientists-joel-clement-zinke" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">interview with InsideClimate News</a>, Clement said he thought it was "fishy" when he was reassigned, and that those suspicions were quickly confirmed. "When [Interior Secretary Ryan] Zinke testified the next week that they were going to use reassignments to trim the workforce, then you could really smell a rat," Clement said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The day after Clement spoke out, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) raised concerns about the reassignments at a Congressional hearing. "It's a lot of confusion and, in my sense, a lot of undermining science," she said. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/20/stories/1060057693" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">told E&E News</a>&nbsp;that she planned to speak with&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/ryan-zinke" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Zinke</a>&nbsp;about Clement's case.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cantwell was joined in the request for an investigation by seven colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee: Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.). They asked Interior Department Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall to report back to them, as well as to Secretary Zinke and the appropriate committees in Congress.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042018/zinke-interior-department-staff-reassignments-inspector-general-report-whistleblower-joel-clement-doi-scientist"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042018/zinke-interior-department-staff-reassignments-inspector-general-report-whistleblower-joel-clement-doi-scientist</font></a></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Interior Department's Office of Inspector General concluded an investigation into the reassignment of 27 top career employees last year without being able to determine the reasons behind the moves or their legality, because, it said, the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;agency failed to document its decision-making process,</span>&nbsp;despite federal guidance.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doioig.gov/reports/reassignment-senior-executives-us-department-interior" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">report issued Monday</a>, the agency's watchdog examined the reassignment of the employees between June 15, 2017, and October 29, 2017.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among those moved was Joel Clement, formerly the director of the Office of Policy Analysis.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-a-scientist-the-trump-administration-reassigned-me-for-speaking-up-about-climate-change/2017/07/19/389b8dce-6b12-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?utm_term=.ec015cef504a" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">In a July 2017 op-ed</a>, Clement accused the department under Secretary Ryan Zinke of transferring him to an obscure accounting post as retaliation for speaking out about the threats manmade climate change poses to Alaskan villages. Zinke has expanded greater fossil fuel development on federal lands and played down or erased consideration of climate impacts across the agency.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clement said last year that his reassignment was part of a pattern within Interior under the new administration. After he filed a&nbsp;<a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072017/whistleblower-trump-intimidation-abuse-power-climate-scientists-joel-clement-zinke" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">federal&nbsp;</a><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072017/whistleblower-trump-intimidation-abuse-power-climate-scientists-joel-clement-zinke" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">whistleblower&nbsp;</a><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072017/whistleblower-trump-intimidation-abuse-power-climate-scientists-joel-clement-zinke" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">complaint</a>&nbsp;against the agency,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24072017/senators-call-investigation-zinke-interior-department-federal-scientists-reassigned" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">eight senators</a>&nbsp;asked the Inspector General's Office to undertake an inquiry.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doioig.gov/reports/reassignment-senior-executives-us-department-interior" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">investigators found</a>&nbsp;that Interior's Executive Resources Board (ERB)—made up of six voting members who were all political appointees at the time and who made the personnel decisions—"did not document its plan for selecting senior executives for reassignment, nor did it consistently apply the reasons it stated it used to select senior executives for reassignment. We also found that the ERB did not gather the information needed to make informed decisions about the reassignments, nor did it effectively communicate" with those re-assigned. &nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The report continued: "As a result, many of the affected senior executives questioned whether these reassignments were political or punitive, based on a prior conflict with DOI leadership, or on the senior executive's nearness to retirement. Many executives speculated that multiple reasons applied or believed their reassignment may have been related to their prior work assignments, including climate change, energy, or conservation."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Interior Department had 227 top career staff, designated as Senior Executive Service, at the time. The department has broad authority to reassign them, provided it follows certain rules. One is that the employee is reassigned to a position "for which the appointee is qualified," something&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05102017/whistleblower-resigns-letter-travel-misuse-trump-zinke-interior-dept-leadership-climate-change" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Clement, a scientist and policy expert, took issue with</a>&nbsp;when he was reassigned to an office that specializes in auditing and dispersing fossil fuel royalty income. &nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report noted that all but two of the reassignment notices were sent on June 15, and that the first reassignment started on July 2. It also noted that reassignments aren't allowed until 120 days after an agency head is appointed; July 2 would have been 123 days after Zinke's confirmation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Because the ERB had no documents related to its decisions, we relied on interviews with ERB members for the rationale behind the ERB's decisions," the investigators wrote. ERB members "told us that instead of consulting with the senior executives or with the senior executives' supervisors about performance and qualifications, the ERB used short biographies submitted by the senior executives in February 2017." Those biographies had been requested as "a way for the new political leadership to get to know the career" staff, they wrote. They also reported that, in most cases, the staff members' supervisors were not informed until hours before the notices were sent.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Deputy Secretary David L. Bernhard said in a written response to the report that the decisions the agency made were "lawful."</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Clement, who&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05102017/whistleblower-resigns-letter-travel-misuse-trump-zinke-interior-dept-leadership-climate-change" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">resigned</a>&nbsp;in October 2017, four months after he invoked the federal whistleblower protections, said in an emailed statement that he was "stunned by the level of incompetence that this report describes."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"There were so few records kept that the Inspector General can't even make a determination of the legality of the reassignment actions," he wrote. "It's remarkable that the political staff at Interior would be so blithe, thoughtless, and careless during a time of intense scrutiny. It begs the question, what did they have to hide?"</font></p></div></div></div></div><div class="tagged-with" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em;"><label style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PUBLISHED UNDER:</font></label><div class="field field-name-field-topics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/politics" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">POLITICS</font></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">CLIMATE CHANGE</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div>&nbsp;<div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/ryan-zinke" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">RYAN ZINKE</a></div>&nbsp;<div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/department-interior" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR</a></div></div><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/endangered-species-ryan-zinke-2556479220.html" class="external text" title="https://www.ecowatch.com/endangered-species-ryan-zinke-2556479220.html" rel="nofollow" lock_icon.gif="lock_icon.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgb="rgb" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" font-family="font-family" georgia="Georgia" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" verdana="Verdana" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" style="margin: 0px; background: url(">Proposed Rule Change Would Be 'Death Sentence' for Nearly 300 Species, Activists Warn</a><span lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" verdana="Verdana" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;3/18 see&nbsp;</span><a href="https://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Wildlife" class="external text" title="https://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Wildlife" rel="nofollow" lock_icon.gif="lock_icon.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgb="rgb" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" font-family="font-family" georgia="Georgia" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" verdana="Verdana" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background: url(">Wildlife</a><span lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" verdana="Verdana" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke's New Outdoor Recreation Panel Dominated by Industry Execs</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px;" /></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2553573236" data-authors="Lorraine Chow" data-headline="Zinke's New Outdoor Recreation Panel Dominated by Industry Execs" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Secretary&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;has assembled a new outdoor recreation advisory panel dominated by top executives from the industry.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 15-member "Made in America"&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-selects-members-newly-created-made-america-outdoor-recreation-advisory" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee</a>&nbsp;will&nbsp;<b>advise Sec. Zinke on issues surrounding&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/public-lands" style="text-decoration-line: none;">public lands</a>. They include officials that represent fishing, shooting sports, motorized vehicles and hospitality as well as national park concessionaires.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Made in America Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee is made up of the private sector's best and brightest to tackle some of our biggest public lands infrastructure and access challenges," Zinke announced Monday.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The committee's collective experience as entrepreneurs and business leaders provide (sic) unique insight that is often lost in the federal government."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/zinke-creates-new-outdoor-recreation-panel-made-up-entirely-of-industry-advisers/2018/03/26/04f3e960-2f9a-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.25d452e9766f" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Washington Post</a>&nbsp;reported that Zinke did not appoint committee nominees offered by the&nbsp;<a href="https://outdoorindustry.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Outdoor Industry Association</a>, which advocates for activities such as mountain climbing, hiking and kayaking. The association has criticized President&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a>'s decision last year to shrink the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/bears-ears" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bears Ears</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/grand-staircase-escalante" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Grand Staircase-Escalante</a>&nbsp;national monuments in Utah.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The only member who does not come from the outdoor recreation industry is Linda Craighead, the assistant secretary of parks and tourism at the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. But as the Post observed, her LinkedIn profile indicates she is pro-business; in her current job she has "implemented key business strategies to transition the state park system from dependence on state funding to a self-sufficient business model while enhancing the natural, cultural, recreational and educational aspects of the parks."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The panel includes three people whom department officials flagged as potentially having a conflict of interest on the matter, according to documents obtained by the Post.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post reported:</font></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the recent selection process for the Made in America panel, Interior staffers color-coded [Derrick Crandall, president of the American Recreation Coalition and counselor for the National Park Hospitality Association], along with those of Bruce Fears, president of Aramark Leisure, and Jeremy Jacobs Jr., co-chief executive of Delaware North, for having&nbsp;<b>potential conflicts of interest.</b>&nbsp;The document places Crandall in the category of "individuals who advocate for and represent the interests of NPS concessioners" and Fears and Jacobs as "current concessioners with the NPS."</font></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both Aramark and Delaware North rank among the Park Service's biggest concessionaires: Aramark has a $2 billion contract to operate concessions at Yosemite National Park, while Delaware North runs concessions at Shenandoah, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not the first time Zinke has created an advisory panel filled with business representatives. Most members of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-appoints-members-royalty-policy-committee-announces-first-meeting" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Royalty Policy Committee</a>&nbsp;come from the oil, gas and mining industries. The new&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-announces-creation-international-wildlife-conservation-council" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">International Wildlife Conservation Council</a>&nbsp;is mainly comprised of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trophy-hunting-committee-trump-2548409021.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">trophy hunters</a>&nbsp;and individuals with ties to President Trump's oldest son, who is an avid hunter.</font></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</font></span></p><div class="around-the-web"><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/conflicts-interest-swamp-department-interior" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Conflicts of Interest Swamp the Department of Interior | NRDC ›</font></a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/lola-zinke-under-scrutiny-e28d3a36a826/" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Interior Department's ethics controversy now extends to Lola Zinke ... ›</font></a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zinke-proof-research-shares_us_5a60e1fae4b0b3f7fa12c397" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Held Onto Undisclosed Shares In Gun ... ›</a></font></li></ul><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zinke-proof-research-shares_us_5a60e1fae4b0b3f7fa12c397</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="1" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Secretary Ryan Zinke is a shareholder in a private Montana company that manufactures and sells firearms and advanced weapons materials, a financial interest he did not disclose when nominated last year.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="2" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to inquiries from HuffPost, both Zinke and the company, PROOF Research Inc., confirmed the secretary’s holdings, though the dollar value placed on them varied. This previously undisclosed holding comes to light after numerous decisions in his first year in office that benefited the hunting and gun industries.</font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="3" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">PROOF Research Inc. was first established in 2011 in Zinke’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana, under the name Extreme Precision Armaments Inc., according to state of Montana </span><a href="http://sos.mt.gov/business" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" business="business" records="records" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" sos.mt.gov="sos.mt.gov" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">business records</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. The company specializes in the production of lightweight rifles with high-precision carbon fiber barrels for hunting and military applications and was born as a </span><a href="http://www.dailyinterlake.com/archive/article-7173317e-35b6-11e2-8b1c-0019bb2963f4.html" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" merger="merger" of="of" four="four" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" www.dailyinterlake.com="www.dailyinterlake.com" archive="archive" article-7173317e-35b6-11e2-8b1c-0019bb2963f4.html="article-7173317e-35b6-11e2-8b1c-0019bb2963f4.html" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">merger of four</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> smaller firearms and gun parts companies. It later changed its name to PROOF Research Inc. and moved to the nearby town of Columbia Falls. </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="4" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">According to the </span><a href="https://www.proofresearch.com/" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" company="company" s="s" website="website" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" https="https" www.proofresearch.com="www.proofresearch.com" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="3" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">company’s website</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, its facility in Columbia Falls produces “the world’s finest composite barrels, stocks, and complete rifles.” A second facility in Dayton, Ohio, makes specialized high-temperature composite materials for the aerospace and defense industries, including components for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and B-2 stealth bomber.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="5" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Zinke provided consulting services for the company in 2012, according to local Montana news </span><a href="http://www.dailyinterlake.com/archive/article-34e4f326-662b-11e4-a324-670693fd4e30.html" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" reports="reports" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" www.dailyinterlake.com="www.dailyinterlake.com" archive="archive" article-34e4f326-662b-11e4-a324-670693fd4e30.html="article-34e4f326-662b-11e4-a324-670693fd4e30.html" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">reports</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> and a </span><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2014/8214247.pdf" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" disclosure="disclosure" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" clerk.house.gov="clerk.house.gov" public_disc="public_disc" financial-pdfs="financial-pdfs" pdf="pdf" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">disclosure</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> he filed as a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives two years later listing $16,975 in compensation. After winning a House seat in November 2014, Zinke </span><a href="http://www.dailyinterlake.com/archive/article-34e4f326-662b-11e4-a324-670693fd4e30.html" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" told="told" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" www.dailyinterlake.com="www.dailyinterlake.com" archive="archive" article-34e4f326-662b-11e4-a324-670693fd4e30.html="article-34e4f326-662b-11e4-a324-670693fd4e30.html" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">told</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> a local newspaper that he planned to retain a small stake in PROOF Research “because it’s a great company.” </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-cpos="6" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both Michael Goguen, the main investor in PROOF Research, and Larry Murphy, the company’s CEO, confirmed to HuffPost that Zinke still owns a small percentage of the company’s stock ― 1,000 shares out of nearly 57 million.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01032018/spending-bill-riders-environment-climate-dark-money-campaign-finance-political-donations" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01032018/spending-bill-riders-environment-climate-dark-money-campaign-finance-political-donations</font></a></p><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congressional Republicans are planning a two-fisted assault on climate and other environmental policies as they push a must-pass spending package for the current fiscal year, which is already half over.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In a perennial ritual on Capitol Hill, they have laden the legislation with anti-environment riders.&nbsp;</b>At the same time, they are pushing provisions this year that could turn on the spigots for a new flow of dark money into elections, according to a&nbsp;<a href="https://cleanbudget.org/dirty-riders-threaten-clean-funding-legislation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">coalition&nbsp;</a>of public interest groups and Democratic lawmakers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The campaign finance measures are just as troubling to advocates of&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">climate change</a>&nbsp;policies as are the special-interest riders. Both tools are favored by the fossil fuel industry and its allies. Opponents of action on global warming, like the billionaire petrochemical magnate Koch brothers, have&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122017/big-oil-heartland-climate-science-misinformation-campaign-koch-api-trump-infographic" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">funneled money and influence</a>&nbsp;into the political process through an ever-changing network of advocacy groups, such as Freedom Partners and Americans for Prosperity.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The package of riders, if approved, "would be the most fundamental change in the money and politics landscape since the horrible 2010&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizens United&nbsp;</em>decision," said Robert Weissman, president of the watchdog group Public Citizen. The Supreme Court decision in&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizens United</em>&nbsp;spawned the creation of super PACs—political action committees that can receive unlimited campaign contributions from corporations, unions and individuals, as long as those donations are disclosed and the super PAC's political activities are not coordinated with those of candidates.</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Ways Bills Would Influence Money in Politics&nbsp;</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FY2018-FSGG-CHAIRMEN-MARK-BILL.PDF" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">Senate version</a>&nbsp;of the massive "omnibus" appropriations legislation that Congress must pass by March 23 to avoid a government shutdown includes a measure that would relax the limits on how much money national parties may spend in coordination with presidential campaigns. This would make it easier for mega-donors to get around the current limits on direct donations to candidates.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bills-115hr-sc-ap-fy2018-fservices-financialservicesandgeneralgovernment.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">House version</a>&nbsp;of the bill includes language to open the door to campaign spending by churches. President Donald Trump called for Congress to take such action last year when he signed a "religious liberty" executive order.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a failed attempt to attach the provision to the&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18122017/tax-bill-vote-renewable-credits-solar-wind-clean-energy-jobs-evs-investment-anwr" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">GOP tax overhaul bill</a>last year, lawmakers expanded it to allow political activity not only by churches but all public charities, including private family foundations like those favored by the Koch brothers and other wealthy donors, and public interest advocates fear that could happen again. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rUjwgqNyMY&feature=youtu.be&t=54m39s" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">Joint Committee on Taxation</a>&nbsp;at the time estimated such a measure could result in<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/10/tax-bills-repeal-johnson-amendment-could-cost-taxpayers-more-than-1-billion/852554001/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;$1 billion</a>being diverted into churches and charities for political giving—since such contributions would be tax-deductible, unlike giving to political organizations.</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More Than 80 Anti-Environment Riders&nbsp;</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year, Democrats were successful in stripping 160 riders out of an earlier stopgap spending bill before its passage.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More than 80 anti-environmental-policy riders are included in either the House-passed version of the new appropriations bill or in the Senate drafts this year, said Trip Van Noppen, president of Earthjustice. They include 12 riders to block enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, including protection of the Sage Grouse, whose numbers are dwindling across 11 western states, where habitat protection interferes with mining and oil and gas activities.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">one rider...f the Environmental Protection Agency's stringent ozone standard—a rule that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has repeatedly sought to delay.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congressional Republicans are also seeking to include provisions that would make it more difficult in the future to tighten air quality standards for ozone, more commonly known as smog. Ozone, a product of fossil fuel pollution, is one of the most thoroughly studied pollutants; the Obama administration's assessment of the science cited 2,300 studies that establish the threat it poses to health.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"What the Congressional Republicans are trying to do is give the cover of law to Pruitt's attempt to undermine the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and other laws we already have in place," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another rider would block implementation of the Interior Department's rule prohibiting gas flaring and methane venting on federal land—an Obama-era regulation that only last week was upheld by a federal judge.<b>&nbsp;Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke</b>&nbsp;has begun the formal process of&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13022018/methane-leaks-monitoring-global-warming-oil-gas-flares-air-pollution-trump-greenhouse-gas" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">rewriting the rule</a>, after courts have blocked at least four efforts at a short-cut repeal. Van Noppen called the rider "a Congressional end-run."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The riders also cover a wide array of hot-button issues that likely will command more political attention than either campaign finance or climate. They include funding for Trump's Mexico border wall, blocking CDC funding for studying gun violence, and an amendment to limit the scope and duration of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div class="tagged-with" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em;"><label style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We understand the complexity of transition but our requests to engage have been ignored and the matters on which we wanted to brief the new Department team are clearly not part of its agenda,” Knowles wrote. “I wish the National Park System and Service well and will always be dedicated to their success.”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">powder river ICN:</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">n investigation by Reuters estimated that industry used the loophole created by captive transactions to pay at least $40 million less in royalties in 2011 alone. Even the Wyoming state auditor recommended stricter federal control over captive transactions among affiliates of a single mining corporation because it had determined that such sales "are highly susceptible to manipulation."</span></font></font></font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luke Popovich, spokesman for the National Mining Association, did not answer questions about criticisms of the federal leasing programs, calling the queries "tendentious." He said that coal corporations paid fees "actually above market rates," and that Obama's Interior secretary "concluded no major reform" of the federal coal leasing program was warranted.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, after years of reports critical of federal coal leasing, including by the Interior Department's Inspector General, the Obama administration undertook a sweeping review of the program. In January 2016, the Interior Department under Secretary Sally Jewell paused the sale of new coal leases during this review. In mid-2016, the administration reformed the royalty rule to close the captive transaction loophole, requiring that royalties be assessed on the first sale to an unaffiliated entity.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Just before Trump took office in January 2017,<b>&nbsp;Jewell</b>&nbsp;released the results of the coal leasing review. "Based on the thoughtful input we received through this extensive review, there is a need to modernize the federal coal program," she stated. "We have a responsibility to ensure the public...get a fair return from the sale of America's coal, operate the program efficiently and in a way that meets the needs of our neighbors in coal communities, and minimize the impact coal production has on the planet that our children and grandchildren will inherit."</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jewell's successor, Ryan Zinke, reversed those steps:&nbsp;</span>The results from the review of coal leasing were discarded, the moratorium lifted and the proposed royalty rule rescinded, tilting the system back once more to industry.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather Swift, an Interior Department spokeswoman, declined to answer questions about why Zinke overturned Obama-era steps to reform coal leasing. She pointed out that in making its&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">decision the Interior had revived the dormant Royalty Policy Committee to advise Zinke. Nearly all the committee members are from fossil fuel extraction states and industries. There are no local environmentalists, consumer advocates or tax specialists among the representatives.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cleaning Up After Fossil Fuels</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fossil fuel extraction tears up the land, even when there are no spills or accidents. Forests and prairie get peeled away for mines, well pads, roads and more. Once corporations are finished, they are supposed to restore what they disrupted to a semblance of its previous state. And they are required to post bonds with state and federal authorities, as a form of insurance to pay for restoration—even if they go bankrupt.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The country's largest coal companies often use the option of self-bonding, which allows them to operate without posting any actual cash or collateral, essentially offering their promise that they will pay fully to restore an area once the mine has closed.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Self-bonding rests&nbsp;</b>on the assumption that the corporations are too big and stable to go bankrupt. Yet by 2016, $2.4 billion of the $3.86 billion in outstanding self-bonding obligations nationwide were held by companies that had filed for bankruptcy in recent years, including Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal and Peabody. Critics are concerned that taxpayers could be on the hook for reclaiming their old mines if coal sales continue to decline.</font></font></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/public-lands-fracking-2516878619.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/public-lands-fracking-2516878619.html</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump, Zinke to Auction Away 700,000 Acres of Western Public Lands for Fracking</font></font></font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px;" /></font></font></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2516878619" data-authors="WildEarth Guardians" data-headline="Trump, Zinke to Auction Away 700,000 Acres of Western Public Lands for Fracking" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font></font><div class="body-description"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a>&nbsp;and Interior Sec.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;are continuing their onslaught against American&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/public-lands" style="text-decoration-line: none;">public lands</a>&nbsp;this holiday month and moving forward with plans to auction off 700,000 acres for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/fracking/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fracking</a>, endangering clean air and water, the climate and sacred lands.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"First it's our cherished&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/national-monuments" style="text-decoration-line: none;">national monuments</a>, now Trump and Zinke are set to give away even more public lands to the fossil fuel industry," said Becca Fischer, climate guardian for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wildearthguardians.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">WildEarth Guardians</a>. "Rather than giving back this holiday season, this administration is proving that it will stop at nothing to put our public lands in the hands of dirty energy executives and sell off our rights to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">clean energy</a>&nbsp;and a healthy environment."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In total in 2017, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has auctioned and is proposing to&nbsp;<a href="https://arcg.is/WqTTH" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">auction off more than a million acres of public lands for fracking in Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming</a>. Of that 1 million, the BLM will sell 700,000 acres in the December sales.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">● On Dec. 7, the BLM sold&nbsp;<a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/72396/126871/154522/Sale_Results_December_2017.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">22,000 acres</a>&nbsp;in northwestern Colorado and&nbsp;<a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/80914/126963/154610/Final_Sale_Results_12_07_2017.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">2,100 acres</a>&nbsp;in southeastern New Mexico.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">● On Dec. 12, 99,000 acres in Montana, 388,000 acres in Nevada and 94,000 acres in Utah are slated to be auctioned off for fracking.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">● On Dec. 14, 72,000 acres in Wyoming are slated to be auctioned off.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pace of public lands giveaways is set to increase in 2018. The BLM's lease sales for the first half of the year<a href="http://arcg.is/1Hima1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://arcg.is/1Hima1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">already total almost 1 million acres</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Save The World Air Inc.</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://missoulian.com/news/local/gop-s-zinke-reaps-benefit-of-pac-he-founded-but/article_e9d02564-9749-11e3-97e2-001a4bcf887a.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Special Operations for America super PAC</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-zinke-b3b34416/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Continental Divide International</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/05/25/stories/1060055160" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Double Tap</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/u-s-house-candidate-zinke-s-assets-exceed-those-of/article_3c533a23-fe3e-5807-98e2-c1d2086dd5b7.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">On Point Montana</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Z000018" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">United States Congress</font></a></li><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additional Background on Employers of Note:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke served 23 years as a Navy SEAL.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke served 23 years as a Navy SEAL, but “left the SEALs under unclear circumstances.” Zinke had “‘transgressions'” in the Navy that hurt his military career, including “inappropriately using Navy travel funds for personal travel” and lying about it, claiming he was attempting “to set up SEAL training in Montana.” This resulted in Zinke being investigated for misusing government funds and being ordered to pay the government back. Despite this investigation, in his confirmation hearing for Secretary of the Interior, Zinke told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that he had never “been investigated …by any federal…law enforcement authority for the violation of any federal…law, regulation, or ordinance.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="http://ryanzinke.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Home</a>,” Ryan Zinke, accessed 07/09/17, Molly Redden, “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/ryan-zinke-stephen-colbert-super-pac-sofa/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">GOP Congressional Candidate Using Campaign Money Scheme Pioneered by…Stephen Colbert</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jones</em>, 11/01/13, John S. Adams, “<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2014/10/22/former-navy-officer-stands-statements-zinke/17746899/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Former Navy officer stands by statements against Zinke</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Great Falls Tribune</em>, 10/22/14, Charles S. Johnson, “<a href="http://missoulian.com/mobile/article_8c55ec5e-4688-11e4-9869-eb298481d1fa.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke touts leadership experience in U.S. House race</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Missoulian</em>, 09/28/14, and Ryan Zinke, “<a href="https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=E66F4BB1-D477-4C8D-81D4-8ABF10D4DB6B" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Statement by Completion for Presidential Nominees</a>,” Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 01/09/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, from December 2012 through January 1, 2015, served on the Board of Directors for Save the World Air, Inc. (STWA), and, beginning in 2013, served as a “State Government Liaison” with STWA.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, from December 2012 through January 1, 2015, served on the Board of Directors for Save the World Air, Inc. (STWA), and, beginning in 2013, served as a “State Government Liaison” with STWA. STWA, which developed and commercialized “pipeline flow assurance technologies that improve the economics, safety, and efficiencies of crude oil extraction and transportation systems,” had serious financial problems, including state and federal tax liens. STWA also had a financial interest in the Keystone Pipeline; in 2013 STWA entered “an equipment lease/option to purchase deal with TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. by its agent TC Oil Pipeline Operations, Inc.” In 2015, shortly after he joined Congress, Ryan Zinke became an original cosponsor of legislation to build the Keystone XL Pipeline.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Save the World Air,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/montana-state-senator-ryan-zinke-joins-stwas-board-of-directors-otcbb-zero-1737667.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 12/14/12, “<a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1103795/000101968713000952/stwa_10k-ex10105.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Independent Contractor Agreement</a>,” Securities and Exchange Commission, 2013, Save the World Air,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/greggory-m-bigger-named-stwa-chief-executive-officer-chairman-board-interim-otcqb-zero-1855959.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 11/25/13, Data from Nexis-Lexis, “<a href="https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-338906644.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Canada: STWA Inks Inked Equipment Lease/option to Purchase Deal with TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P</a>,” Highbeam Research, 08/06/13, and “<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H.R. 3</a>,” United States House of Representatives, 114th Congress]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke “created the Special Operations for America (SOFA) super PAC to back Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke “created the Special Operations for America (SOFA) super PAC to back Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign,” and in 2013, SOFA PAC transitioned to supporting congressional campaigns.Zinke resigned from the super PAC on September 30, 2013, and in October 2013 the super PAC made Zinke their “first candidate.” After the super PAC had spent $250,000 in support of Zinke’s congressional campaign, Zinke made the treasurer of the super PAC his congressional chief of staff. Although Zinke denied “taking a paycheck from SOFA,” from July 2012 to March 2013 the super-PAC paid Zinke’s company, Continental Divide International, $26,317.11 for “‘fundraising consulting’ and ‘strategy consulting.'” He also received complaints “alleging illegal coordination” between his campaign and SOFA PAC.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Matt Volz, “<a href="http://missoulian.com/news/local/gop-s-zinke-reaps-benefit-of-pac-he-founded-but/article_e9d02564-9749-11e3-97e2-001a4bcf887a.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">GOP’s Zinke reaps benefit of PAC he founded, but is it legal?</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Associated Press</em>, 02/16/14, Charles Johnson, “<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/democrats-blast-zinke-s-pick-of-former-super-pac-treasurer/article_b3a0479e-4a2a-5351-8a7e-a84e6c383a2f.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Democrats blast Zinke’s pick of former super PAC treasurer as chief of staff</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Billings Gazette</em>, 01/07/15, Molly Redden, “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/ryan-zinke-stephen-colbert-super-pac-sofa/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">GOP Congressional Candidate Using Campaign Money Scheme Pioneered by…Stephen Colbert</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jones</em>, 11/01/13, and Troy Carter, “<a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/politics/zinke-denies-super-pac-coordination/article_bb44c77e-18de-11e4-8e41-001a4bcf887a.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke denies super PAC coordination</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bozeman Daily Chronicle</em>, 07/31/14]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, from, 2008 to 2014, was “the CEO of Continental Divide International, a business development consulting company.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, from, 2008 to 2014, was “the CEO of Continental Divide International, a business development consulting company.”Continental Divide International was, in accordance with an ordinance passed in 2010, required to have a Home Occupation Business License but did not apply with the City of Whitefish for a Home Occupation Business License until December 17, 2013. As such, it was operating for years without a license from the city.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Buck Traxler, “<a href="http://www.theindependentobserver.com/index.php/news-mainmenu-2/17-latest/1909-conrad-punches-ticket-for-livingstone-zinke-stop" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Conrad punches ticket for Livingstone-Zinke stop</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Independent-Observer</em>, 07/20/13, “<a href="http://www.cityofwhitefish.org/cms-assets/documents/125768-887927.business-license-section-3-1-3.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Business Licensing Provisions</a>,” City of Whitefish, accessed 07/09/17, and Home Occupation Business License Application for Continental Divide International, LLC, 12/17/13]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jamie and Ryan Zinke, in 2011, created Double Tap LLC.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jamie and Ryan Zinke, in 2011, created Double Tap LLC. Ryan Zinke has been the managing member of Double Tap LLC since 2011. Double Tap LLC, in 2013, was involuntarily dissolved by the State of Montana due to failure to file “legally required Annual Reports and fees.” Double Tap LLC last filed an annual report in 2012.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Articles of Organization for Double Tap LLC, 06/06/11, Involuntary Dissolution Notice for Double Tap LLC, 2013, Double Tap, LLC Annual Reports, and Ryan Zinke’s OGE Form 278e, 12/18/16]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke was the president of On Point Montana, LLC.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke was the president of On Point Montana, LLC, “a security consulting firm,” from January 2012 to December 2014. In 2013, On Point Montana, LLC was involuntarily dissolved by the State of Montana for failure to file legally required annual reports and fees. It last filed an annual report with the State of Montana in 2012.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Ryan Zinke’s OGE Form 278e, 12/18/16, Involuntary Dissolution Notice for On Point Montana, LLC, 2013, On Point Montana, LLC Annual Reports, and Charles Johnson, “<a href="http://missoulian.com/news/local/u-s-house-candidate-zinke-amasses-more-wealth-than-lewis/article_be9ceeda-0d4c-11e4-9938-0019bb2963f4.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">U.S. House candidate Zinke amasses more wealth than Lewis</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Missoulian</em>, 07/16/14]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /><div class="module full-content gray" id="political-connections" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 90px 0px 0px; padding: 90px 0px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); float: left; width: 1583px; position: relative;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 40px; background-repeat: no-repeat; max-width: 100%; width: 1145px; height: 1233px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -15px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 1233px;"><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; min-height: 1px; float: none; width: 821.25px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 31.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political Connections</font></h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span data-redactor-tag="strong" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & Gas Ties</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke has taken in more than $355,000 in political contributions from the oil and gas industry.&nbsp;</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke has taken in more than $355,000 in political contributions from the oil and gas industry. Some of the top donors to Zinke’s congressional campaigns include Oasis Petroleum, Haliburton, and the Red Apple Group.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Search for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00035616&type=I" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Ryan Zinke</a>, Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 07/07/17, and “<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00035616&type=I" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Donors</a>,” Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 07/12/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span data-redactor-tag="strong" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal Ties</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, since becoming a member of Congress, has accepted over $31,000 from the coal industry.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, since becoming a member of Congress, has accepted over $31,000 from the coal industry. Some of his largest contributors are Alpha Natural Resources PAC, Arch Coal PAC, and Peabody Energy Corporation PAC. He has also accepted contributions from Cloud Peak Energy Resources PAC, Hecla Mining PAC, and the National Mining Association PAC.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Political Moneyline Search for Ryan Zinke, CQ, accessed 07/07/17 and National Institute on Money in State Politics Search for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?c-t-eid=6675530&d-cci=34#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-cci,d-ccb" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Ryan Zinke</a>, accessed 07/12/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span data-redactor-tag="strong" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White Supremacist Ties</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, “Earl Holt, the leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens, made a $500 donation to [Ryan] Zinke’s election campaign.” The Council of Conservative Citizens is described as “a white supremacist group cited by Charleston” convicted church murderer Dylann Roof. A manifesto “purportedly written by Roof says he learned about ‘brutal black on white murders’ from the Council of Conservative Citizens website.” Zinke’s spokesperson said he would donate the money “to a fund set up for the families of the victims of the Charleston shooting.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/zinke-to-donate-funds-from-white-supremacist/article_06a0fffd-a963-55b5-b5c0-aebe5b66d982.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke to donate funds from White Supremacist</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Associated Press</em>, 06/22/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2014, also received a $500 donation “from Richard Spencer, director of the National Policy Institute now based in Whitefish that bills itself as a think-tank dedicated to the ‘heritage, identity, and future of European people.'” Zinke’s spokesperson said he would also donate this $500.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/zinke-to-donate-funds-from-white-supremacist/article_06a0fffd-a963-55b5-b5c0-aebe5b66d982.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke to donate funds from White Supremacist</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Associated Press</em>, 06/22/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /></div></div></div></div><div class="module full-content " id="relevant-voting" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 90px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; float: left; width: 1583px; position: relative;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 40px; background-repeat: no-repeat; max-width: 100%; width: 1145px; height: 4948px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -15px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 4948px;"><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; min-height: 1px; float: none; width: 821.25px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 31.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Relevant Voting</font></h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, introduced an amendment that would have blocked the Obama administration from implementing a rule to close a loophole that allows coal companies “to sell coal to their own subsidiary companies at intentionally depressed prices to avoid royalty payments,” thereby “shortchanging Western states on revenue that could be used for schools, roads, and other priorities.” Zinke’s proposal to keep the loophole open was referred to as a “shameless break” for big oil companies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cloud Peak Energy</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cloud Peak Energy, whose PAC gave Zinke’s campaign fund $4,500 in the five months before he introduced the amendment and $6,000 in the two months after he introduced the amendment, appeared to be the “biggest benefactor” and “most staunch defender” of the loophole. Zinke also wrote a letter to the Interior Department asking that they take into account a peer review “completed by Energy Ventures Analysis, Inc.”(EVA) in their consideration of whether or not to close the loophole. The EVA report was completed “at the request of Cloud Peak Energy.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Nicole Gentile, “<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/congressman-tries-to-quietly-preserve-coal-loophole-e1b65af71f36" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Congressman Tries To Quietly Preserve Coal Loophole</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Think Progress</em>, 06/30/15, and Editorial, “<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/gazette-opinion-zinke-pushes-quietly-to-take-money-away-from/article_58ddee77-40af-53fc-88b2-97fb070dafc8.html#ixzz3fEzpivOM" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Gazette opinion: Zinke pushes quietly to take money away from taxpayers</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Billings Gazette</em>, 07/06/15, Matt Le and Nidhi Thakar, “<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/massive-coal-company-fights-to-preserve-loopholes-ability-to-rip-off-taxpayers-5d353d79ad8b" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Massive Coal Company Fights To Preserve Loopholes, Ability To Rip Off Taxpayers</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">ThinkProgress</em>, 08/11/15, and Ryan Zinke to Sally Jewell, 09/28/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alpha Natural Resources and Peabody Energy</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alpha Natural Resources and Peabody Energy, which have contributed thousands of dollars to Ryan Zinke’s campaign committee, also appear to benefit from this loophole as both companies have numerous domestic and foreign subsidiaries.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Political Moneyline Search for Ryan Zinke, CQ, accessed 07/07/17, and Matt Lee-Ashley and Nidhi Thakar, “<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/king-coal-merrily-fiddling-taxpayer-298599" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">King Coal is Merrily Fiddling the Taxpayer</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Newsweek</em>, 01/12/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, was a cosponsor and voted in committee for H.R. 1644.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, was a cosponsor and voted in committee for H.R. 1644, legislation to block Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) from publishing new rules on mountaintop removal mining until OSM “conduct[ed] an ‘industry impact’ study.” The rule that the legislation aimed to block would “update standards for buffer zones around streams where mining activities and waste are prohibited.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Vice President of Alpha Natural Resources, one of the coal companies that donated to Zinke’s campaign, testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources that OSM’s proposal to update standards for buffer zones around streams was “unnecessary, unjustified, and dangerous and certainly [did] not meet any cost-benefit standard.”&nbsp;Cloud Peak Energy, another Zinke donor, also lobbied Congress in support of H.R. 1644.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[John Paul Jones, “<a href="https://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/jonestestimony08-02-13.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">‘Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act’ (H.R. 2824)</a>,” House Committee on Natural Resources, 08/02/13, “<a href="http://www.cq.com/doc/committees-2015091000329308?1" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H.R. 1644</a>,” House Natural Resources Committee Vote, 09/10/15,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1644/cosponsors" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H.R. 1644</a>, United States House of Representatives, 114th Congress, Alex Guillen, “<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/interior-proposes-boosting-stream-protections-from-coal-mining-120232" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Interior proposes boosting stream protections from coal mining</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Politico</em>, 07/16/15, Devin Henry, “<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/264918-gop-bill-blocking-obama-coal-rule-set-to-hit-house-floor" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">GOP bill blocking Obama coal rule set to hit House floor</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Hill</em>, 01/06/16, and “<a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=77049524-770A-46E9-8CF0-BF1ADE6DCDC6&filingTypeID=69" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Cloud Peak Energy Resources 2015 Third Quarter Report</a>,” United States Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed 07/09/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke was “a vocal proponent of the ill-fated Gateway Pacific Terminal.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke was “a vocal proponent of the ill-fated Gateway Pacific Terminal,” which “was supposed to be the largest coal exporting facility on the West Coast.” Zinke called the project “‘a must-build project.'” The permit for the project was denied by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which said that “the project would infringe on” tribal fishing rights.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zinke campaign donor Cloud Peak Energy had significant financial interest in the Gateway Pacific Terminal, and Zinke co-sponsored “a controversial amendment” that would “guarantee the completion of [the] National Environmental Policy Act review” for the Gateway Pacific Terminal. The amendment was “controversial” because the Lummi Nation said that the Gateway Pacific Terminal project “would violate treaty-protected fishing rights and, therefore, the Army Corps of Engineers [had] no business reviewing permit applications.” Peabody Energy, another one of Zinke’s donors, was also “a major supporter and potential customer of the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Peter Wagner, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161215155319/kism.com/news/007700-zinke-a-proponent-of-gpt-terminal-tapped-for-interior-secretary" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke, a proponent of GPT terminal, tapped for interior secretary</a>,” KGMI News, 12/15/16, accessed via archive.org, Nives Dolšak, Aseem Prakash, & Maggie Allen, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/09/20/this-is-why-environmentalists-are-targeting-energy-pipelines-like-the-north-dakota-project/?utm_term=.ab6a0df21271" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">The big fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Washington Post</em>, 09/20/08, Steve Daines,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/daines-zinke-call-on-army-corps-of-engineers-to-complete-environmental-study-on-gateway-pacific-terminal" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 07/29/15, Cloud Peak Energy,&nbsp;<a href="http://investor.cloudpeakenergy.com/press-release/announcements/ssa-marine-welcomes-crow-tribe-and-cloud-peak-energy-partners-gateway-pa" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 08/13/15, Grace Toohey, “<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article47817255.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Northwest tribes fear corporate interests trump treaty rights</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">McClatchy</em>, 12/03/15, Manuel Quiñones, “<a href="https://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1060028789/print" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Tribes to lobby against pro-export amendment</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Energy & Environment</em>, 12/02/15, and Samantha Wohlfeil, “<a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article71696852.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Potential Cherry Point coal terminal customer files for bankruptcy</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bellingham Herald</em>, 04/13/16]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, introduced H.R. 1522.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, introduced H.R. 1522, which was a bill “to make the Indian Coal Production Tax Credit (ICPTC) permanent.” The tax break when this bill was introduced applied “only to mines put into service before 2009,” but Zinke’s bill included “language to lift the date restriction so that Cloud Peak’s proposed Big Metal Mine.” This mine, on the Crow Indian Reservation, would qualify for the tax break. Cloud Peak Energy also lobbied Congress on H.R. 1522.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Ryan Zinke,&nbsp;<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20170112015024/https:/zinke.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-ryan-zinke-announces-permanent-indian-coal-production-tax-credit" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 03/16/15, accessed via archive.org, Matthew Brown, “<a href="http://newsok.com/montana-delegation-seeks-to-make-coal-tax-break-permanent/article/feed/810688" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Montana delegation seeks to make coal tax break permanent</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Associated Press</em>, 03/12/15, and “<a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=A1E273AC-C0A9-4C77-ABA1-3C3B07722E90&filingTypeID=51" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Cloud Peak Energy Resources 2015 First Quarter Report</a>,” United States Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed 07/09/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2016, introduced H.R. 5259.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2016, introduced H.R. 5259, a bill to “overturn a temporary federal ban on coal leases.” Cloud Peak Energy “‘strongly'” supported this bill.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Ryan Zinke,&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170112012215/https:/zinke.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/daines-zinke-introduce-legislation-give-states-tribes-say-energy-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 05/17/16, accessed via archive.org, and Tom Lutey, “<a href="http://mtstandard.com/news/state-and-regional/zinke-pushes-to-end-coal-lease-suspension-empower-communities/article_8232a989-1020-5afe-abeb-0fc200c84818.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke pushes to end coal lease suspension, empower communities</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Montana Standard</em>, 06/14/16]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke and 14 other members of Congress, on February 10, 2015, sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell asking that the Interior Department “provide a 60-day extension of the comment period” for a rule which had to with “reconsidering whether Americans are receiving a ‘fair return’ on sales of coal, oil and natural gas taken from public lands.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokesman for Senator Steve Daines, whose office circulated the letter, said that Daines’ office “‘worked closely'” with Cloud Peak Energy when “‘developing the language'” of the letter. Cloud Peak Energy’s Communications Director said that the proposed rule was part of the Obama administration’s “‘onslaught on the coal industry.'”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Tom Lutey, “<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/carbon-copies-elected-officials-pass-coal-industry-letter-off-as/article_519d730a-bc37-506a-a566-705fe91a999a.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Carbon copies: Elected officials pass coal industry letter off as their own</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Billings Gazette</em>, 07/15/15 and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.onrr.gov/laws_R_D/PubComm/PDFDocs/AA13/United-States-Congress.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Steve Daines et. al to Sally Jewell</a>, 02/10/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on January 3, 2017, voted to “make it easier for…Congress to cede federal control of public lands” by changing “the way Congress calculates the cost of transferring federal lands to the states.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll006.xml" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H Res 5</a>, House of Representatives Vote, 01/03/17, “<a href="http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20170102/BILLS-115hres5-PIH-FINAL.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H. Res. 5</a>,” United States House of Representatives, 115th Congress, Juliet Eilperin, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/03/house-gop-rules-change-would-make-it-easier-to-sell-off-federal-land/?utm_term=.d13d0398e02e" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">House GOP rules change will make it easier to sell off federal land</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Washington Post</em>, 01/03/17, and Emily Yehle and Jennifer Yachnin, “<a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/01/05/stories/1060047915" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke scares greens by backing rule to ease land transfers</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Greenwire</em>, accessed 01/05/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on September 10, 2015, voted in the House Natural Resources Committee for H.R. 538.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on September 10, 2015, voted in the House Natural Resources Committee for H.R. 538, the Native American Energy Act, which was legislation to “exempt tribal lands from any regulations on hydraulic fracturing” and allow “environmental assessments required by the National Environmental Policy Act” to be “avoided.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="http://www.cq.com/doc/committees-2015091000329308?11" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H.R. 538</a>,” House Natural Resources Committee Vote, 09/10/15, Charles McConnell, “<a href="http://azdailysun.com/news/local/house-oks-bill-giving-tribes-more-control-over-mineral-resources/article_0759e18c-1c60-55b5-a1ff-71ad0390c08b.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">House OKs bill giving tribes more control over mineral resources</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Arizona Daily Sun</em>, 10/09/15, and Rebecca Moss, “<a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/tribal-leaders-u-s-lawmakers-discuss-energy-development-drawing-protest/article_542ded4f-20e0-50e0-a9f0-905157353dad.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Tribal leaders, U.S. lawmakers discuss energy development, drawing protest</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Santa Fe New Mexican</em>, 10/04/16]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on July 8, 2015, voted for an “amendment from Rep. Steve Pearce” to “prohibit any increase in the royalty rates paid for oil and gas.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll408.xml" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Roll Call 408</a>, House of Representatives Vote, 07/08/15, and Heather Taylor-Miesle, “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-taylormiesle/friends-of-polluters-rack_b_7972528.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Friends of Polluters Rack Up More Dirty Votes</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Huffington Post</em>, 08/11/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on June 4, 2015, voted against the Lois Capps amendment to H.R. 2577.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on June 4, 2015, voted against the Lois Capps amendment to H.R. 2577. This was an amendment to raise “fees on oil companies to increase funding for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which regulates oil pipelines,” to provide funding to finalize and implement pipeline safety and spill mitigation rules.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll305.xml" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Roll Call 305</a>, House of Representatives Vote, 06/04/15, and Sean McMinn, “<a href="http://www.shfwire.com/with-clock-ticking-on-cappss-time-in-washington-shes-looking-for-some-progress" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">With clock ticking on Capps’s time in Washington, she’s looking for some ‘progress</a>,'”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Scripps Howard Foundation Wire</em>, 06/16/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on June 11, 2015, voted in committee for H.R. 2295.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, on June 11, 2015, voted in committee for H.R. 2295, legislation that would allow the Interior Secretary to issue rights-of-way for pipelines on National Park Service lands and would require the Interior Secretary to designate “at least 10 National Energy Security Corridors on federal lands… within two years.” The legislation would also “allow the Interior secretary to designate corridors without first completing the type of review required under the National Environmental Policy Act.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="http://www.cq.com/doc/committees-2015061100327150?6" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H.R. 2295</a>,” House Natural Resources Committee Vote, 06/11/15, and Jasmin Melvin, “House panel moves pipeline rights-of-way bill ahead,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Platts Gas Daily</em>, 06/12/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, was an original cosponsor of H.R. 3946.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, was an original cosponsor of H.R. 3946, “Protecting Local Communities from Executive Overreach Act,” a bill to “limit presidential monuments to 5,000 acres or less,” ban them in parts of the West, and prohibit a president from designating or expanding a national monument without local approval. Opponents said the bill would “require an unattainable level of public input and local approval conditions for the establishment of new national monuments.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3946?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.+3946%22%5D%7D&r=1" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">H.R. 3946</a>, United States House of Representatives, 114th Congress, Jenny Rowland, “<a href="https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/08125913/2AntiParks-brief.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">The Rise to Power of the Congressional Anti-parks Caucus</a>,” Center for American Progress, 04/11/16, and Shaun McKinnon, “<a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/best-reads/2015/12/09/sedona-red-rock-national-monument/72083486/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">What’s rocking Sedona? A red rock monument, Obama, and a fistfight</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Arizona Republic</em>, 12/09/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, sponsored a bill to “make mining and drilling easier on Indian reservations.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Tom Lutey, “<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/zinke-a-key-lawmaker-in-removing-u-s-crude-export/article_c728bd73-7f2f-5ceb-a310-34bf96500557.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke a key lawmaker in removing U.S. crude export ban</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Billings Gazette</em>, 10/07/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2016, co-signed a letter urging a change to “allow states to manage preservation efforts of the Mexican Gray Wolf without interference from the federal government,” because the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service has “proven to be incapable” in this area.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170112050226/http:/gosar.house.gov/sites/gosar.house.gov/files/FY17%20final%20signed%20Mexican%20Wolf.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Paul Gosar et. al. to Ken Calvert and Betty McCollum</a>, 03/22/16]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /></div></div></div></div><div class="module full-content gray" id="current-activity" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 90px 0px 0px; padding: 90px 0px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); float: left; width: 1583px; position: relative;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 40px; background-repeat: no-repeat; max-width: 100%; width: 1145px; height: 1686px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -15px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 1686px;"><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; min-height: 1px; float: none; width: 821.25px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 31.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Current Activity</font></h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since beginning his tenure as Interior Secretary, Secretary Zinke has used of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on chartered flights. His office has claimed that the chartered flights were “booked only when feasible commercial flights were unavailable.” Secretary Zinke is currently under investigation for his use of chartered flights.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2017, Secretary Zinke “chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana… aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives,” a flight that “cost taxpayers $12,375.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few months earlier, in March 2017, “Zinke and his official entourage also boarded private flights between the Caribbean islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix during a three-day trip to the Virgin Islands.” The trip included “an official snorkeling tour.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretary Zinke’s spokesperson, Heather Swift, has said his “charter flights were authorized by ethics officials and booked only when feasible commercial flights were unavailable.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Drew Harwell and Lisa Rein, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2017/09/28/59533ed8-a4b8-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.8cef0789e227" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke took $12,000 charter flight home in oil executive’s plane, documents show</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Washington Post</em>, 09/28/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Interior Department’s office of inspector general is currently investigating Secretary Zinke’s use of chartered planes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Jacqueline Thomsen, “<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/353473-interior-department-watchdog-investigating-zinkes-use-of-chartered" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Interior watchdog investigating Zinke’s use of chartered jets</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Hill</em>, 10/02/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">Although Secretary Zinke’s office has denied having any connection with Whitefish Energy, the power company that got a contract to restore electricity in Puerto Rico, when he was a Congressman members of his staff met with Whitefish Energy about “</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">using the C-FAC superfund site in Columbia Falls as a transformer manufacturing plant.” Zinke also “reached out” to the Columbia Falls City Manager about building a transformer manufacturing plant.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whitefish Energy, a “Whitefish-based power company… secured a $300 million contract to restore electricity to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.” The contract has spurred “questions from government agencies and Congress about why the 2-year-old operation from Montana was selected over larger, more experienced providers.” The company has also “come under fire because of alleged ties to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose hometown is Whitefish.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather Swift, Secretary Zinke’s spokesperson, has defended Secretary Zinke’s relationship with Whitefish Energy CEO Andy Techmanski. According to Swift, “‘The Zinkes and the Techmanskis know each other because they both live in a small town (population 6,000) where everyone knows everyone, and his son joined a friend who worked a summer job at one of their construction sites.'”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Mackenzie Reiss, “Questions Arise About Whitefish Company’s Puerto Rico Contract,” Daily Inter Lake, 10/24/17]</font><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;" /></small></p><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; 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border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, when he was a Congressman, Zinke’s then-district director for the Flathead Valley, John Fuller, “represent[ed] Zinke’s office during negotiations with Whitefish Energy and one of its investors, Brazilian-based Comtrafo. Comtrafo and Flathead Energy’s Andy Techmanski were proposing using the C-FAC superfund site in Columbia Falls as a transformer manufacturing plant.”</font></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[David Winter, “<a href="http://www.kulr8.com/story/36722429/zinke-connection-to-whitefish-energy" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke connection to Whitefish Energy</a>,” KULR, 10/30/17]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also as a Congressman, Ryan Zinke reached out to Columbia Falls City Manager Susan Nicosia “about the project” to build a “transformer manufacturing plant at the former Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. site,” that Whitefish Energy wanted to build. Zinke also wrote a letter to Governor Steve Bullock about the site.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Seaborn Larson, “<a href="http://www.dailyinterlake.com/archive/article-476a16a2-c402-11e6-9e0d-d7bb58da643a.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Energy Company Considering Flathead for New Plant</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Daily Inter Lake</em>, 12/16/16, and Ryan Zinke to Steve Bullock, 03/04/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /></div><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;" /></small></div><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; 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border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, Ryan Zinke ran for lieutenant governor.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, Ryan Zinke ran for lieutenant governor of Montana on a ticket with gubernatorial candidate Neil Livingstone, who claims he “partied with pirates, been stalked by Nazis, and tried (unsuccessfully) to spring Moammar Qaddafi from Libya.” Ryan Zinke said that “Livingstone is just the kind of leader” that Montana needed.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Tim Murphy, “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/neil-livingstone-montana-governor/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">The Most Interesting Gubernatorial Candidate in the World</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jones</em>, 03/27/12, and Charles Johnson, “<a href="http://ravallirepublic.com/news/local/article_72f8200e-2214-57a8-b2b0-dd343b52f9e5.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Republican Livingstone announces campaign for governor, names running mate</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Missoulian,</em>&nbsp;07/11/11]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016, Ryan Zinke endorsed Taylor Rose.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016, Ryan Zinke endorsed Taylor Rose, who was “deeply active in white nationalism” and who had “ties with a number of extremist political parties” in Europe, in Rose’s race for Montana’s 3rd House District.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Tristan Scott, “<a href="http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/10/05/young-unorthodox-flathead-gop-candidates-mount-challenges-dems/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Young and Unorthodox, Flathead GOP Candidates Mount Challenges on Dems</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Flathead Beacon</em>, 10/05/16, and Keegan Hankes, “<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/10/19/meet-new-wave-extremists-gearing-2016-elections" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Meet the New Wave of Extremists Gearing Up for the 2016 Elections</a>,” Southern Poverty Law Center, 10/19/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke has been all over the map on climate change.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke has been all over the map on climate change. He signed a letter to President Obama “urging climate change legislation,” but he also said climate change is “‘not proven science'” and that as a geologist “he has seen no scientific evidence…that climate change is changing the weather.” Zinke “doesn’t even think that climate change is manmade.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Troy Carter, “<a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/politics/u-s-house-race-zinke-presents-energy-plan/article_9e6c6a5e-1810-11e4-a990-001a4bcf887a.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">U.S. House race: Zinke presents energy plan</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bozeman Daily Chronicle</em>, 07/30/14, Troy Carter, “<a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/politics/article_9acaff66-f67b-11e3-8238-001a4bcf887a.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke: Lewis wrong on energy</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bozeman Daily Chronicle,</em>&nbsp;06/18/14, Charles Johnson, “<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/government-and-politics/lewis-zinke-debate-federal-budget-health-care-global-warming/article_d062bc3c-c8e9-5909-854f-5e78efc52868.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Lewis, Zinke debate federal budget, health care, global warming</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Billings Gazette</em>, 10/04/14, and “<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/shields-and-brooks-on-joni-ernsts-sotu-response/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Shields and Brooks on Sen. Joni Ernst’s response to the 2015 State of the Union</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">PBS Newshour</em>, 01/20/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke favors reforming the Antiquities Act, which he thinks has been abused.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Ryan Zinke, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i23DwVeEfxk" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">US Congressional GOP Candidate Debate MT AT Large</a>,” YouTube, 04/20/16, (85:00)]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Ryan Zinke has said he “‘will not tolerate selling our public lands,'” he has flip-flopped between being for and against transferring federal land to states.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170112000625/https:/zinke.house.gov/issues/public-lands" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Public Lands</a>,” Congressman Ryan Zinke, accessed via archive.org, Eric Whitney, “<a href="http://mtpr.org/post/rep-zinke-gop-delegate-share-disagreement-party-platform" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Rep. Zinke, GOP Delegate Share Disagreement With Party Platform</a>,” Montana Public Radio, 07/18/16, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120619030231/http:/polymontana.com/?p=7413" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Neil Livingstone is the first Montana candidate to sign the Montana Constitutional Governance Pledge</a>,” PolyMontana, accessed via archive.org, and John S. Adams, “<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/06/lewis-ad-takes-aim-zinkes-public-land-record/16836489/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Lewis’ ad takes aim at Zinke’s public land record</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Great Falls Tribune</em>, 10/06/14]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke has said he is “‘concerned about the federal government’s role in the conservation process.'”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke has said he is “‘concerned about the federal government’s role in the conservation process.'” He thinks the Bureau of Land Management’s plan for Sage Grouse management undermines “‘the authority of sovereign states to manage [their] own land'” and withdraws too much “‘land that has the potential for natural resource development.'”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Ryan Zinke,&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170112011337/https:/zinke.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/zinke-doi-sage-grouse-listing-clearly-not-warranted-and-neither-another" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 09/22/15, accessed via archive.org, and Ryan Zinke,&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170112030210/https:/zinke.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ryan-zinke-slams-blm-s-washington-knows-best-sage-grouse-plan" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 05/28/15, accessed via archive.org]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke said he wants “to speed up oil and gas drilling on lands managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.”&nbsp;</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2014, said he wants “to speed up oil and gas drilling on lands managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.” In 2015, he signed a letter to the Department of Interior complaining that oil and gas lease sales were not being approved fast enough.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Matthew Brown and Lisa Baumann, “<a href="http://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-s-u-s-house-candidates-energy-plans-reveal-contrasts/article_cd64dbb4-1b69-11e4-8c74-0019bb2963f4.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Montana’s U.S. House candidates’ energy plans reveal contrasts</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Missoulian</em>, 08/03/14, and House Committee on Natural Resources,&nbsp;<a href="https://naturalresources.house.gov/newsroom/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399762" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 12/16/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke opposed the Department of Interior’s 2015 fracking rules.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke opposed the Department of Interior’s 2015 fracking rules, which increased safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on public lands. The regulations included “new standards for the construction of wells and the disposal of waste water in fracking conducted on federal land.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="http://www.kbzk.com/story/28574747/obama-administration-puts-new-rules-on-fracking" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Obama administration puts new rules on fracking</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">CNN</em>, 03/20/15]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke believes that “fracking is safe.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke believes that “fracking is safe.” He said, “he has seen no scientific evidence that fracking is environmentally dangerous” and that “it is bunk that fracking is environmentally unsound.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Tweet by&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RyanZinke/status/606511479588843520" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Ryan Zinke</a>, accessed 07/07/17, Troy Carter, “<a href="http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/politics/article_9acaff66-f67b-11e3-8238-001a4bcf887a.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Zinke: Lewis wrong on energy</a>,”&nbsp;<em data-redactor-tag="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bozeman Daily Chronicle</em>, 06/18/14, and Ryan Zinke, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI1vGxHIxXo" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">THE Hagmann AND Hagmann Report 9 9 2013 0</a>,” YouTube, 09/10/13, (47:00)]</font></small></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, opposed an EPA Superfund listing for the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company site.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Zinke, in 2015, opposed an EPA Superfund listing for the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company site, where there was “environmental contamination” near the Flathead River, “a fishery that includes the federally designated threatened bull trout and the federally sensitive westslope cutthroat trout.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tests of the area “detected contaminants like cyanide, fluoride, and metals, such as arsenic, chromium, lead, and selenium.” Zinke was “vocal in his opposition” to the Superfund listing and preferred “‘a plan founded on private enterprise.'” In a letter to Governor Steve Bullock, Zinke said that he opposed the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company site being placed on the Superfund National Priority List because “being listed will significantly delay…economic development.”</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/elephants-lions-trump-2511386998.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/elephants-lions-trump-2511386998.html</font></a></p><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Over New Elephant and Lion Trophy Policies, Still in Effect Despite Trump's Tweets</font></h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><p><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></span></p><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2511386998" data-authors="Center for Biological Diversity" data-headline="Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Over New Elephant and Lion Trophy Policies, Still in Effect Despite Trump's Tweets" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Center for Biological Diversity</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nrdc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a>&nbsp;sued the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a>&nbsp;administration Monday for allowing U.S. hunters to import&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/elephants" style="text-decoration-line: none;">elephant</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/lions" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lion</a>&nbsp;trophies from Zimbabwe. The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/pdfs/Complaint_Zimbabwe_Elephant_and_Lion_Imports.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lawsuit</a>&nbsp;aims to protect animals and resolve confusion created by the administration's contradictory announcements in recent days.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The suit comes days after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service abruptly reversed an Obama-era ban on elephant trophy imports based on catastrophic&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/African_elephants/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">elephant population</a>&nbsp;declines. Fish and Wildlife also recently greenlighted lion trophy imports from Zimbabwe, despite the controversial killing of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe in 2015.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After massive public outcry, including from established Republican politicians and pundits, President Trump and Interior Sec.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;announced a "hold" on issuing elephant trophy import permits late Friday night. President Trump suggested on Twitter that a new big-game trophy decision would be forthcoming. Unfortunately, the new federal policies allowing imports of elephant and lion trophies—referred to as "positive enhancement findings" under the U.S. Endangered Species Act—remain in effect.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Trump administration must clearly and permanently halt imports of lion and elephant trophies to protect these amazing animals from extinction," said Tanya Sanerib, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. "Trump's abrupt backpedaling after public outcry, while appreciated, shows how arbitrary this deplorable decision was. These incredibly imperiled creatures need a lot more than vague promises."...</font></font></font></p></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott Angelle</font></font></font></h4><p class="desc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Head of Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement</span>,&nbsp;<span class="agency DOI" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 4px 5px 2px; border-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 2);">DOI</span></font></font></font></p><p class="formerly" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Formerly: member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission who served on the board of directors of oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics</font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div><table id="dirty-deputies-table" class="display responsive dataTable no-footer dtr-inline" role="grid" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: thin solid grey; table-layout: initial; clear: both; width: 1240px; margin-top: 6px !important; margin-bottom: 6px !important; max-width: none !important;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preston</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beard</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-beard-76272aaa/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-beard-76272aaa/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Advisor in the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-beard-76272aaa/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association; Scott Angelle for Congress; Friends of Mary Landrieu; Copestone</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-beard-76272aaa/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Was the PAC Manager for the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-beard-76272aaa/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Worked for Republican Scott Angelle and Democrat Mary Landrieu on their political campaigns</font></a></td><td data-search="oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nancy</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental Protection Agency</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/04/trump-just-put-chemical-industy-hack-charge-assessing-chemicals-epa" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancybbeck" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Chemistry Council</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.americanchemistry.com/Membership/MemberCompanies/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">ACC members include Exxon.</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td data-search="Exxon; oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon; oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathleen</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Benedetto</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="http://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1060046616" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-welcomes-six-new-hires-department" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Senior Adviser, Bureau of Land Management</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="http://www.eenews.net/special_reports/powershift/transitions" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">House Natural Resources Committee aide; geologist at Bioxy Research</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.mininghalloffame.org/page/womens-mining-coalition-be-given-prazen-living-legend-mining-award" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Started Women's Mining Coalition</font></a></td><td data-search="coal; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coal; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernhardt</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-interior-nominee-conflicts-of-interest-fb2c9690a0f7" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/david-bernhardt-confirmed-deputy-secretary-interior-department/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Deputy Secretary of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/david-bernhardt-confirmed-deputy-secretary-interior-department/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lobbyist at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://medium.com/westwise/trump-wants-this-oil-lobbyist-to-watch-over-public-land-and-water-and-his-former-clients-2d1e97170c29" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lobbied for mining companies, oil and gas companies, and water users in the West</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://polluterwatch.com/david-bernhardt" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Additional list of mining and oil and gas clients available here.</font></a></td><td data-search="coal; oil and gas; fossil fuel; Former lobbyistdata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coal; oil and gas; fossil fuel; Former lobbyist</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Megan</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bloomgren</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="http://www.nofrackingway.us/2017/03/10/trumps-cesspool/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/11/former-koch-agents-fossil-fuel-industry-hired-guns-now-staffing-trumps-federal" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Communications</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganbloomgren/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DCI Group; U.S. Chamber of Commerce</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/11/former-koch-agents-fossil-fuel-industry-hired-guns-now-staffing-trumps-federal" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DCI Group represented Exxon Mobil; U.S. Chamber of Commerce receives Koch funding.</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://polluterwatch.com/megan-bloomgren" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Additional information on Bloomgren's ties to industry can be found here.</font></a></td><td data-search="Exxon; oil and gas; Koch; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon; oil and gas; Koch; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liz</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bowman</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental Protection Agency</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/04/14/stories/1060053120" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Public Affairs</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizsnyderbowman/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Chemistry Council</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.americanchemistry.com/Membership/MemberCompanies/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">ACC members include Exxon.</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td data-search="Exxon; oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon; oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">G. Michael</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department of Energy</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Executive Adviser</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/g-michael-brown-82a9775/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Ben Carson campaign; Cheseapeake Energy; American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></td><td data-search="oil and gas; coal; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oil and gas; coal; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cason</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="http://www.nofrackingway.us/2017/03/10/trumps-cesspool/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-announces-19-new-hires" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Associate Deputy Secretary</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-cason-1a4b3910" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Unifrax Corporation President</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/18/us/defeat-conceded-on-bush-nominee.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Cason's 1989 nomination to USDA position was defeated due to his close ties to industry.</font></a></td><td data-search="oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><table id="dirty-deputies-table" class="display responsive dataTable no-footer dtr-inline" role="grid" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: thin solid grey; table-layout: initial; clear: both; width: 1240px; margin-top: 6px !important; margin-bottom: 6px !important; max-width: none !important;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Balash</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 193.625px;"><a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2017/07/19/trump-names-alaskan-to-interior-department-post/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2017/07/19/trump-names-alaskan-to-interior-department-post/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assistant Secretary of Lands and Minerals</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 155.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-balash-2102924a/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK); AK Commissioner of Natural Resources</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business/article/state-bp-travel-asia-launch-marketing-efforts-alaska-lng/2014/09/17/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Went on a trip to China, South Korea, and Japan with BP officials to market LNG</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td data-search="oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><table id="dirty-deputies-table" class="display responsive dataTable no-footer dtr-inline" role="grid" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: thin solid grey; table-layout: initial; clear: both; width: 1240px; margin-top: 6px !important; margin-bottom: 6px !important; max-width: none !important;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Swift</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/12/stories/1060057289" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060049449" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Press Secretary</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060049449" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT); DCI Group</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/11/former-koch-agents-fossil-fuel-industry-hired-guns-now-staffing-trumps-federal" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DCI Group represented Exxon Mobil; U.S. Chamber of Commerce receives Koch funding.</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-welcomes-seven-new-hires" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Was a member of the Interior Beachhead Team; served as Zinke's congressional Communications Director and Deputy Campaign Manager</font></a></td><td data-search="Exxon; oil and gas; Koch; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon; oil and gas; Koch; fossil fuel</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><table id="dirty-deputies-table" class="display responsive dataTable no-footer dtr-inline" role="grid" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: thin solid grey; table-layout: initial; clear: both; width: 1240px; margin-top: 6px !important; margin-bottom: 6px !important; max-width: none !important;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melissa</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Simpson</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department of the Interior</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Special Assistant to the Secretary</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/10/trump-agency-staffers-koch-fossil-fuel-industry-employees" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Safari Club International; Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation; Department of Interior (Pres. George W. Bush)</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/10/trump-agency-staffers-koch-fossil-fuel-industry-employees" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation has taken contributions from oil and gas companies and trade associations</font></a></td><td data-search="oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></font></font></div><div><table id="dirty-deputies-table" class="display responsive dataTable no-footer dtr-inline" role="grid" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: thin solid grey; table-layout: initial; clear: both; width: 1240px; margin-top: 6px !important; margin-bottom: 6px !important; max-width: none !important;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susan</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Combs</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/national-govt--politics/combs-set-join-interior-department-agency-she-often-battled/oFe8HLO3ioTrwAiOVjnyeM/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/national-govt--politics/combs-set-join-interior-department-agency-she-often-battled/oFe8HLO3ioTrwAiOVjnyeM/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assistant Secretary of Interior Nominee</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="http://www.susancombs.com/about-susan/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Former Texas State Comptroller; Texas Public Policy Foundation</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-the-corporations-and-billionaires-that-fund-the-texas-public-policy-foundation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a Koch-funded organization; it is also funded by Exxon</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/national-govt--politics/combs-set-join-interior-department-agency-she-often-battled/oFe8HLO3ioTrwAiOVjnyeM/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Reported to be an active opponent of the Endangered Species Act; reportedly used 'used her budget to finance studes on species that some academics criticized as politically skewed'</font></a></td><td data-search="Koch; oil and gas; Exxon; fossil fuel; nomineedata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch; oil and gas; Exxon; fossil fuel; nominee</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tucker</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Davis</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department of the Interior</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/01/23/stories/1060048815" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Unknown title. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tucker-davis-a982b458" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Trump campaign; Faces of Coal</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td data-search="coal; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coal; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blake</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Deeley</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-welcomes-three-interior" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/27/stories/1060058029" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Advisor for the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/27/stories/1060058029" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rep. David McKinley (R-WV); Congressional Coal Caucus; Kentucky Chamber of Commerce</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/27/stories/1060058029" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Was the lead staffer for the Congressional Coal Caucus</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td data-search="coal; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coal; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doug</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Domenech</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Department of the Interior</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/26/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-personnel-key" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assistant Secretary, Insular Affairs</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/doug-domenech" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Texas Public Policy Foundation</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/texas-public-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Kochs and Exxon Mobil have funded the TPPF.</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/310068-climate-change-speaking-truth-to-power" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wrote, "Speaking truth to power, these experts had a common message in response to the age-old questions: Is climate change real? Yes, it has happened in the past and will happen in the future. Is man making an impact on the climate? Perhaps but in very small ways. But the overarching consensus remains the climate change we are experiencing is by no means catastrophic."</font></a></td><td data-search="Koch; Exxon; oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch; Exxon; oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div><table id="dirty-deputies-table" class="display responsive dataTable no-footer dtr-inline" role="grid" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: thin solid grey; table-layout: initial; clear: both; width: 1240px; margin-top: 6px !important; margin-bottom: 6px !important; max-width: none !important;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr role="row" class="even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leila</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Getto</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/leila-getto-013b265/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/leila-getto-013b265/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Deputy Director of Scheduling and Advance</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/leila-getto-013b265/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Department of Energy; Abraham for Senate; McCain 2000</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="http://www.energyxxi.org/leila-getto" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Worked for the Chamber's Global Energy Institute, which advocates for increased oil, natural gas, and coal production and consumption</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td data-search="coal; oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coal; oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td tabindex="0" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 81.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard</font></td><td class="sorting_1" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 89.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Goeken</font></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 192.625px;"><a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-welcomes-three-interior" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Department of the Interior</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/27/stories/1060058029" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Deputy Solicitor for Parks and Wildlife</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 156.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/27/stories/1060058029" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Smith Currie & Hancock LLP; Federalist Society</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.martindale.com/washington/district-of-columbia/richard-w-goeken-352885-a/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">His&nbsp;online Martindale profile&nbsp;stated, "Rick represents members of the forest products, construction, and oil and gas industries ... Rick also protects clients' private property rights from needlessly burdensome federal environmental law and regulation."</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 137.625px;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/07/27/stories/1060058029" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Worked with timber companies to oppose a legal challenge filed by the Center for Biological Diversity over the extent of protections for the northern long-eared bat; also defeated an attempt by environmentalists to block the longing of centuries-old trees in Alaska's Tongass National Forest</font></a></td><td data-search="oil and gas; fossil fueldata-order=" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.5rem; border: thin solid grey; vertical-align: bottom; width: 173.625px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oil and gas; fossil fuel</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div></div><div><div class="module full-content" id="introduction" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 90px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; float: left; width: 1583px; position: relative;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 40px; background-repeat: no-repeat; max-width: 100%; width: 1145px; height: 838px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -15px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 838px;"><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; min-height: 1px; float: none; width: 821.25px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 31.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Solicitor</font></font></font></h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If confirmed, Ryan Nelson will serve as the Solicitor for the Department of the Interior. “As Solicitor, Nelson will be the chief attorney for the United States Department of the Interior, principal legal adviser to the Secretary of the Interior, and will oversee 400 employees, including 300 attorneys. He will be assisted by several Deputy Solicitors, Associate Solicitors, and eight Regional Solicitors.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A native of Idaho Falls, Idaho and a Brigham Young University Law School graduate, Ryan Nelson is a George W. Bush administration veteran and has worked most recently for Idaho billionaire Frank VanderSloot. Nelson began his legal career working as an associate at Sidley Austin LLP, and from there he went to serve in the Bush administration as deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, where he argued “against environmental or citizens’ groups… seeking to block government actions.” Nelson also served in the Bush administration as deputy general counsel for the White House Office of Management and Budget. For a few months in 2009, Nelson worked on the Senate Judiciary Committee where he was part of the “Republicans’ core nominations team” working on the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. For the past eight years, Nelson has worked as general counsel to “controversial” “health care products company” Melaleuca. In addition to representing the company in corporate litigation cases, Nelson represented CEO Frank VanderSloot, working to “bully and silence” those who have pointed out that VanderSloot funds a “‘number of anti-gay causes'” and those who have criticized Melaleuca’s “‘shady business model.'”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sources: [Department of the Interior,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/zinke-applauds-nomination-idahos-ryan-nelson-serve-interior-solicitor" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 08/01/17, Chase Peterson-Withorn, “<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2017/06/21/how-frank-vandersloot-wellness-billionaire-and-gop-kingmaker-became-idahos-richest-person/#2a6accdb2a95" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">How Frank VanderSloot, Wellness Billionaire And GOP Kingmaker, Became Idaho’s Richest Person</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Forbes</em>, 06/21/17, Michael Doyle, “<a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/08/01/stories/1060058227" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">‘Aggressive’ solicitor pick brings broad legal experience</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Greenwire</em>, 08/01/17, Legistorm Profile for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.legistorm.com/person/bio/130327/Ryan_D_Nelson.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Ryan D. Nelson</a>, accessed 08/02/17, “<a href="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/06/senate-judiciary-republicans-staffing-up-for-sotomayor.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Senate Judiciary Republicans Staffing up for Sotomayor</a><em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">,</em>“<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">&nbsp;Legal Times</em>, 06/05/09, Bryan Clark, “<a href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-todays-headlines/2017/08/01/melaleuca-attorney-tapped-doi-solicitor" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Melaleuca attorney tapped for DOI solicitor</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Idaho Falls Post Register</em>, 08/01/17, Glen Greenwald, “<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Salon</em>, 02/17/12, Kimberlee Kruesi, “VanderSloot’s Mother Jones suit tossed: Judge dismisses conservative Idaho activist’s lawsuit against liberal magazine,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Lewiston Morning Tribune</em>, 10/08/15,&nbsp;and Bryan Clark, “Melaleuca attorney tapped for DOI solicitor,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Idaho Falls Post Register</em>, 08/01/17]</font></small></font></font></p></div></div></div></div><div class="past" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; float: left; height: 1px; width: 1583px; position: relative;"><div class="module full-content first" id="previous-employers" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 90px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; float: left; width: 1583px; position: relative;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 40px; background-repeat: no-repeat; max-width: 100%; width: 1145px; height: 4118px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -15px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 4118px;"><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; min-height: 1px; float: none; width: 821.25px;"><h2 class="extra-padding" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 54px; margin: 0px 0px 70px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background Information</font></font></font></h2><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 31.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Previous Employers</font></font></font></h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;" /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="http://abovethelaw.com/2017/05/circuit-court-nominees-in-the-trump-administration-a-nationwide-round-up/2/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Sidley Austin</a></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/08/01/stories/1060058227" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice</font></a></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/08/01/stories/1060058227" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Office of Management and Budget</font></span></a></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/08/01/stories/1060058227" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Judiciary Committee</font></a></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="http://abovethelaw.com/2017/05/circuit-court-nominees-in-the-trump-administration-a-nationwide-round-up/2/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melaleuca</font></a></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">Additional Background on Employers of Note:&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Nelson, as deputy assistant attorney general for the Bush administration, argued “against environmental or citizens’ groups… seeking to block government actions.”</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, Ryan Nelson “was listed as an attorney in two appellate cases in the 9th Circuit during his time in the Bush administration, in each case arguing against environmental or citizens’ groups who were seeking to block government actions.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Bryan Clark, “<a href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-todays-headlines/2017/08/01/melaleuca-attorney-tapped-doi-solicitor" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Melaleuca attorney tapped for DOI solicitor</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Idaho Falls Post Register</em>, 08/01/17]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Nelson called the DOJ’s $2 million civil settlement with the Jupiter Aluminum Corporation that spared the aluminum manufacturer “nearly $50 million” in pollution fines for “exceeding limits” of air pollution of “potential human carcinogens and other toxic chemicals” an “‘example of… good'” government cooperation.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As deputy assistant attorney general, Ryan Nelson announced the Department of Justice settled with the Jupiter Aluminum Corporation for “exceeding limits on air releases of potential human carcinogens and other toxic chemicals.” Jupiter Aluminum, which agreed to “pay a civil penalty of $2 million” and “take steps to ensure future compliance with certain provisions of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA),” was spared “nearly $50 million in fines.” Nelson called it “‘an example of the good that can come from the cooperation of federal, state and local government.'”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[U.S. Department of Justice,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/August/07_enrd_602.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 08/13/07, Steve Zabrowski, “<a href="http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&subsectionID=259&articleID=35797" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Jupiter Aluminum plant in Hammond to settle in Clean Air Act complaint</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Times of Northwest Indiana</em>, 08/11/07, and Steve Zabrowski, “<a href="http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.net/main.asp?SectionID=31&subsectionID=259&articleID=35880" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Hammond’s Jupiter Aluminum agrees to $2 million civil penalty</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Times of Northwest Indiana</em>, 08/15/07]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Nelson, as deputy assistant attorney general, represented the Bush administration against a citizens’ group who sued to stop an Alaskan mine from filling “in wetlands with mine tailings,” claiming “less destructive alternatives hadn’t been explored.”</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As deputy assistant attorney general, Ryan Nelson represented the Bush administration in a 9<sup style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">th</sup>Circuit Court case, “arguing against” a citizens’ group “seeking to block” the Army Corps of Engineers for permitting the Rock Creek Mining Project, near Nome, Alaska. After the Army Corp of Engineers permitted the mine to fill in wetlands with mine tailings, the citizens group claimed “less destructive alternatives hadn’t been explored.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Bryan Clark, “<a href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-todays-headlines/2017/08/01/melaleuca-attorney-tapped-doi-solicitor" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Melaleuca attorney tapped for DOI solicitor</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Idaho Falls Post Register</em>, 08/01/17]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Nelson, as deputy assistant attorney general, represented the Bush administration against an environmental group that “argued that yellowfin tuna caught by South and Central American fisherman using seine nets shouldn’t be permitted to use a ‘dolphin-safe’ label.” The court ruled against Nelson, and found the labeling was inappropriate.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The court ultimately blocked the Department of Commerce’s finding that such labeling was appropriate.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Bryan Clark, “<a href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-todays-headlines/2017/08/01/melaleuca-attorney-tapped-doi-solicitor" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Melaleuca attorney tapped for DOI solicitor</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Idaho Falls Post Register</em>, 08/01/17]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Nelson has worked as general counsel for “controversial” “health care products company” Melaleuca.&nbsp;</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melaleuca is a “‘controversial billion-dollar-a-year company'” that has been described as a “‘pyramid selling organization, built along the lines of Herbalife and Amway.'” Melaleuca’s “get-rich pitches” have gotten the company into hot water with state regulators, and additionally the Food and Drug Administration has “accused Melaleuca of deceiving consumers about some of its supplements.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Michael Doyle, “<a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/08/01/stories/1060058227" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">‘Aggressive’ solicitor pick brings broad legal experience</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Greenwire</em>, 08/01/17, Kimberlee Kruesi, “VanderSloot’s Mother Jones suit tossed: Judge dismisses conservative Idaho activist’s lawsuit against liberal magazine,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Lewiston Morning Tribune</em>, 10/08/15, and Glen Greenwald, “<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Salon</em>, 02/17/12]<span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">&nbsp;</span></font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Someone who identifies themselves as a 16-year Melaleuca Inc. employee left a comment on the Federal Trade Commission’s website that Melaleuca was “one of the most obvious Pyramid Schemes on the planet” and that “the evidence of coruption [sic] and/ or scheming should be abundantly clear to all regulators seeking consumer protection.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[“<a href="https://www.ftc.gov/es/node/777851" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Comment</a>,” Federal Trade Commission, 11/05/15]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank VanderSloot has used “his team of subservient lawyers” to “bully and silence” journalists. Ryan Nelson has sent threatening emails to journalists who have criticized Melaleuca’s business model and have accused VanderSloot and Melaleuca of being “‘Not-So-Gay-Friendly.'”</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics have observed that “Frank VanderSloot and his team of subservient lawyers… are abusing the law and their own resources to threaten, bully and silence vulnerable people from engaging in perfectly legitimate political speech.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Glen Greenwald, “<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Salon</em>, 02/17/12]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February 2012, Ryan Nelson sent a stern email to Elliot Suthers of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Forbes&nbsp;</em>magazine after Suthers had written a piece in which he referenced Melaleuca’s “‘somewhat shady business model,’ and also referenced the ‘number of anti-gay causes’ which VanderSloot ha[d] funded.'” Nelson accused Suthers “of making ‘defamatory statements'” and told Suthers: “‘We expect immediate action here and no more stonewalling from you.'”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Glen Greenwald, “<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Salon</em>, 02/17/12]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also in February 2012, a website called the Idaho Agenda that “cover[ed] issues of interest to the state’s LGBT community” published a piece called that accused Melaleuca of being a “‘Not-So-Gay-Friendly'” company. The author of the piece “received an accusatory letter from a Melaleuca lawyer, Associate Counsel Michael LaClare…. [and] spoke to friends to decide what to do, but before he could respond, he received a follow-up missive by email from a different company lawyer, General Counsel Ryan Nelson, demanding compliance.” The author of the article emailed back to say that “he was working on a response” but Nelson threatened him, saying, “‘We really need to address this issue today or else we will have to consider escalating this issue to a much more serious level.'”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Glen Greenwald, “<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Salon</em>, 02/17/12]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Nelson also represented Frank VanderSloot when VanderSloot sued&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jone</em>s magazine for defamation after&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jones</em>&nbsp;wrote an article accusing VanderSloot of outing a reporter as gay; the case was dismissed.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2005, “when the Idaho Falls Post Register published a series of articles detailing pedophilia at a local Boy Scout camp… Melaleuca took out ads in the paper criticizing the article and repeating speculation that, among other issues, its homosexual author may have had ‘a personal axe to grind’ due to the Scouts’ then-policy of not allowing gay scout leaders.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Chase Peterson-Withorn, “<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2017/06/21/how-frank-vandersloot-wellness-billionaire-and-gop-kingmaker-became-idahos-richest-person/#2a6accdb2a95" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">How Frank VanderSloot, Wellness Billionaire And GOP Kingmaker, Became Idaho’s Richest Person</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Forbes</em>, 06/21/17, and Stephanie Mencimer, “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mitt-romney-melaleuca-frank-vandersloot/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Pyramid-Like Company Ponies Up $1 Million for Mitt Romney</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jones</em>, 02/06/12]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jones</em>&nbsp;published an article claiming that CEO of Melaleuca Frank VanderSloot, “in his letters to the local paper, publicly outed a reporter as gay. VanderSloot sued for defamation in Idaho court. The judge, while criticizing Mother Jones’ reporting, dismissed the claims as protected speech and threw out the case in October 2015.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Chase Peterson-Withorn, “<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2017/06/21/how-frank-vandersloot-wellness-billionaire-and-gop-kingmaker-became-idahos-richest-person/#2a6accdb2a95" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">How Frank VanderSloot, Wellness Billionaire And GOP Kingmaker, Became Idaho’s Richest Person</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Forbes</em>, 06/21/17]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Nelson represented VanderSloot in the suit.&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Mother Jones’</em>&nbsp;attorney described Nelson as being “‘on the aggressive end of the spectrum.'”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Michael Doyle, “<a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/08/01/stories/1060058227" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">‘Aggressive’ solicitor pick brings broad legal experience</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Greenwire</em>, 08/01/17, and Bryan Clark, “Melaleuca attorney tapped for DOI solicitor,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Idaho Falls Post Register</em>, 08/01/17]</font></small></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In September 2016, Donald Trump Jr. had a “closed-door meeting at Melaleuca Global Headquarters” where he visited with Frank VanderSloot and the company’s management team.&nbsp;</font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Nate Eaton, “<a href="https://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/09/trump-jr-stops-by-idaho-falls-for-private-meeting-at-melaleuca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Trump Jr. Visits Idaho Falls for Private Meeting at Melaleuca</a>,”&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">East Idaho News</em>, 09/21/16]</font></small></font></font></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>