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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnder Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior, its a sell-off from sea to shining sea.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/the-damage-done-by-trumps-department-of-the-interiorTwo days after his trip to Tallahassee, Zinke proposed a complete reorganization of the Interior Department, which currently has some seventy thousand employees. (In September, he told attendees of an oil-industry meeting that thirty per cent of the employees were not loyal to the flag, by which he seemed to mean himself.) Now is the time to be transformative, the Secretary said in a video message that showed him sitting next to a blazing fire. The plan would require congressional approval, but it seems to have been put together without consulting lawmakers. Neither Zinke nor his assistants have opened the specifics of their proposed reorganization to public or congressional input, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, wrote recently in an op-ed in the Durango Herald, which ran under the headline ryan zinke is destroying the interior department.
Zinke is, in many ways, a typical Trump appointee. A lack of interest in the public interest is, these days, pretty much a precondition for running a federal agency. Consider Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, or Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, or Rick Perry, the Secretary of Energy. Nearly all Trumps Cabinet members have shown disdain for the regulatory processes theyre charged with supervising. And, when it comes to conflicts of interest, they seem, well, unconflicted. In October, the Interior Departments inspector general opened an investigation into Zinkes travel expenses, which include twelve thousand dollars for a charter flight from Las Vegas to Kalispell, Montana, on a plane owned by executives of a Wyoming oil-and-gas company.
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Two days after his trip to Tallahassee, Zinke proposed a complete reorganization of the Interior Department, which currently has some seventy thousand employees. (In September, he told attendees of an oil-industry meeting that thirty per cent of the employees were not loyal to the flag, by which he seemed to mean himself.) Now is the time to be transformative, the Secretary said in a video message that showed him sitting next to a blazing fire. The plan would require congressional approval, but it seems to have been put together without consulting lawmakers. Neither Zinke nor his assistants have opened the specifics of their proposed reorganization to public or congressional input, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, wrote recently in an op-ed in the Durango Herald, which ran under the headline ryan zinke is destroying the interior department.
Zinke is, in many ways, a typical Trump appointee. A lack of interest in the public interest is, these days, pretty much a precondition for running a federal agency. Consider Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, or Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, or Rick Perry, the Secretary of Energy. Nearly all Trumps Cabinet members have shown disdain for the regulatory processes theyre charged with supervising. And, when it comes to conflicts of interest, they seem, well, unconflicted. In October, the Interior Departments inspector general opened an investigation into Zinkes travel expenses, which include twelve thousand dollars for a charter flight from Las Vegas to Kalispell, Montana, on a plane owned by executives of a Wyoming oil-and-gas company.
Zinke is, in many ways, a typical Trump appointee. A lack of interest in the public interest is, these days, pretty much a precondition for running a federal agency. Consider Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, or Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, or Rick Perry, the Secretary of Energy. Nearly all Trumps Cabinet members have shown disdain for the regulatory processes theyre charged with supervising. And, when it comes to conflicts of interest, they seem, well, unconflicted. In October, the Interior Departments inspector general opened an investigation into Zinkes travel expenses, which include twelve thousand dollars for a charter flight from Las Vegas to Kalispell, Montana, on a plane owned by executives of a Wyoming oil-and-gas company.
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Two days after his trip to Tallahassee, Zinke proposed a complete reorganization of the Interior Department, which currently has some seventy thousand employees. (In September, he told attendees of an oil-industry meeting that thirty per cent of the employees were not loyal to the flag, by which he seemed to mean himself.) Now is the time to be transformative, the Secretary said in a video message that showed him sitting next to a blazing fire. The plan would require congressional approval, but it seems to have been put together without consulting lawmakers. Neither Zinke nor his assistants have opened the specifics of their proposed reorganization to public or congressional input, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, wrote recently in an op-ed in the Durango Herald, which ran under the headline ryan zinke is destroying the interior department.
Zinke is, in many ways, a typical Trump appointee. A lack of interest in the public interest is, these days, pretty much a precondition for running a federal agency. Consider Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, or Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, or Rick Perry, the Secretary of Energy. Nearly all Trumps Cabinet members have shown disdain for the regulatory processes theyre charged with supervising. And, when it comes to conflicts of interest, they seem, well, unconflicted. In October, the Interior Departments inspector general opened an investigation into Zinkes travel expenses, which include twelve thousand dollars for a charter flight from Las Vegas to Kalispell, Montana, on a plane owned by executives of a Wyoming oil-and-gas company.
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Under Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior, its a sell-off from sea to shining sea. (Original Post)
CousinIT
Jan 2018
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Yep, destroying the environment and the selling of public resources will be difficult to reverse.
Freethinker65
Jan 2018
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Freethinker65
(9,998 posts)1. Yep, destroying the environment and the selling of public resources will be difficult to reverse.
In some cases it will be impossible to reverse.