Tag: government corruption

2 million acres of Public Land to Oil & Gas

as posted on Western Values Project “Federal officials plan to sell oil and gas leases across Montana this December, a plan that has some conservation groups worried about the impact of development near prized locations.” — Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 8/11/18 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is trying to sell […]

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“Dinky” Zinke Ends Obama-Era Policy Requiring Energy Companies Fund Environmental ‘Mitigation’ Projects

by Tim Pierce as published on TennesseeStar.com “Stupid knows no bounds!” The Department of the Interior (DOI) is scrapping an Obama-era policy mandating energy companies mitigate development on federal land by funding offsite environmental projects. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) — a DOI-controlled agency and the largest […]

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Scott Pruitt Out At EPA

by Rebecca Hersher & Brett Neely as published on NPR “the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.” Scott Pruitt will no longer lead the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump announced Thursday afternoon via Twitter. “I […]

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Wild Horse Hater Zinke Socialized with Private Developers On the Taxpayer Dime While His Wife Finagled Sweetheart Land Deal

by Larkin Corrigan as published on Western Values Project “…he’s abusing this position to help his big oil buddies to enrich himself and his family at the expense of taxpayers…” The ranking member Rep. Raul Grijalva of the House Natural Resources Committee called on Interior’s Office of Inspector […]

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Raising the Flag on Ryan Zinke’s Corruption

By Lena Moffitt as published on OtherWords The Wild Horse Hater charged with protecting our public lands is handing them over to fossil fuel companies The media’s been swirling around the many scandals involving Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, and rightfully so. But there’s another scandalous member […]

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