With Zinke's planned departure from Interior, a good time to run though a few of the stories detailing what Zinke and his team have been up to at Interior since 2017. Let's start with the rollback of rules intended to prevent another Deepwater Horizon nytimes.com/2018/03/10/bus…
Then there was the move to shrink National Monuments, which documents we obtained after suing Interior show was influenced by oil and gas, even though Zinke said it was not. nytimes.com/2018/03/02/cli…
Then there is the rush to open up more federal lands to coal mining, particularly in Montana and Wyoming. nytimes.com/2017/08/06/us/…
And the move to open up millions of acres of federal lands to oil and gas drilling, while also weakening rules intended to protect the environment and threatened wildlife, like the sage grouse. This story with @HirokoTabuchi took us to Wyoming. nytimes.com/2018/10/27/cli…
We also examined, again with @HirokoTabuchi how Interior under Zinke has been selling off access to hundreds of thousands of acres of federal lands in the West for as little as $1.50 an acre. nytimes.com/2018/11/27/bus…
My NYT colleagues @CoralMDavenport and @SteveEder also examined ethics issues related to Zinke and his management of Interior nytimes.com/2018/10/31/cli…
And The NYT even took you readers to Alaska--by @henryfountain and @SteveEder--to look at how Zinke and his team at Interior are rushing to open up pristine lands in Alaska to oil and gas drilling. nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/…
Hope you had a chance to read some of this coverage. NYT is committed to this topic. Thanks for supporting all this work. Here is a link that will bring you to dozens of stories we have done on Zinke since he arrived at Interior nytimes.com/search?query=z…
