Happy Birthday To The Arctic Refuge
Just this week, the Trump administration set a date to auction off the heart of these lands. This will not stand.
Secretary of the Interior
Trump Administration Ignores Oil Worker Safety In Pursuit Of Offshore Oil Profits
Recent reports show that political appointees at the Department of the Interior (DOI) ignored experts who opposed issuing a rule rolling back safety measures for offshore oil rig workers.
Ryan Zinke Is Blaming Eco-Terrorists Who Don’t Exist For Wildfires
In recent days, Ryan Zinke, US Secretary of the Interior, has been making headlines with his remarkably wrong-headed remarks about the US West’s horrific season of wildfires, blaming them on eco-terrorists. As with President Trump’s tweets of two days earlier in which he made the baffling statement that California was pumping fresh water into the Pacific instead of using it to fight fires, Zinke is so wrong that it is literally incredible that he could believe what he is saying.
Secretary Of The Interior Ryan Zinke Wholesales US Federal Resources to Fund…Parks?
US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke recently took to the podium in front of an audience full of energy industry workers at CERA Week to talk US policy, and then proceeded to reveal just how much of a shill for the petroleum industry he really is.
New DOI Plan For California Desert Renewables
At a wind farm near Palm Springs yesterday, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell presented the department’s long-awaited plans for both multi-energy renewables development and conservation within 22.5 million acres of the Mojave and other Southern California deserts. More than half the land lies within San Bernardino County. The … [continued]
Is The US Department of the Interior Committing Cultural Genocide And Ecocide?
Update: Also see this (sort of) counter-story: Native American Tribe’s Push For Solar & Wind (To Replace Coal & Keep Out Natural Gas) Originally published on San Diego Loves Green by Roy L. Hales While Secretary of the Interior Jewell addressed the Clean Energy Summit 6.0 in Las Vegas last week, … [continued]
