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August 23, 2018 by

Zinke Takes Mysterious Turkish Vacation While West Burns  

Last Friday night, Secretary Zinke was spotted in the Turkish Airlines lounge at Dulles International Airport, and later boarded a flight to Istanbul. According to a Politico source, Secretary Zinke […]

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July 20, 2018 by

Scandal-Plagued: Secretary Zinke’s First Sixteen Months

New Public Records Analysis and Original Research Available at the Department of Influence With EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt out and with recent breaking news of an investigation into his real […]

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July 11, 2018 by

Wheeler’s EPA: Is a Foreign Uranium Company On Verge of Getting More Wishes Granted?

After successfully lobbying the administration to gut Bears Ears protections for his former client, what will Acting EPA Administrator Wheeler do next? Perhaps because he is afraid of getting booted […]

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June 28, 2018 by

Redacted: Zinke and Team Still Have a Ways To Go Before “Full Transparency”

It’s been quite a week for Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. Yesterday the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported it couldn’t determine whether or not Secretary Zinke broke the law […]

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June 21, 2018 by

Special interests take the wheel at Interior as Zinke focuses on his political future

Earlier this week, POLITICO broke the news that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s family’s foundation is helping a Halliburton-backed developer exploit land that had originally been set aside for a public […]

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May 8, 2018 by

Interior nominee Tara Sweeney lands hearing for Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs despite ethical questions

Possible conflicts of interest persist as her current employer has pending permit to drill in the Arctic The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold a hearing to consider Tara […]

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May 4, 2018 by

Western Values Project to Pruitt and EPA: Help us hold Interior accountable

Watchdog group files FOIA request to learn what the EPA knows about Interior Secretary After The Atlantic reported that embattled Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s communications team has […]

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April 24, 2018 by

ICYMI: Zinke, Bernhardt, and Cason pull strings for former Interior Secretary casino client

Over the weekend, Politico broke a story detailing President Bush’s former Interior Secretary-turned-MGM Grand lobbyist Gale Norton’s influence on the current department’s decision to offer no opinion on a Native […]

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April 19, 2018 by

Deputy Secretary Bernhardt issues agency-wide ethics memo neither he nor Zinke appear to be following

Ex-lobbyist has no ethics waivers filed for decisions before the Department Deputy Secretary of Interior and ex-lobbyist David Bernhardt issued an agency-wide memo announcing new ethics initiatives for the department, […]

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April 4, 2018 by

Zinke and crew are coming to get your public lands

The administration’s cloaked attempt to steal your public lands Just a few weeks ago a Department of Interior spokesperson denounced a Montana Farm Bureau official for suggesting that Secretary of […]

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