1/ @SecretaryZinke is out as of Jan. 2.
He leaves behind a legacy of widespread attacks on science across nearly 500 million acres of public land and offshore waters.
Some examples, courtesy of reporter @shogrenE: revealnews.org/blog/zinkes-un…
He leaves behind a legacy of widespread attacks on science across nearly 500 million acres of public land and offshore waters.
Some examples, courtesy of reporter @shogrenE: revealnews.org/blog/zinkes-un…
2/ At Interior, @SecretaryZinke sidelined science, birds and ancient relics to promote fossil fuels and other industries. revealnews.org/episodes/behin…
3/ He set an anti-science tone early by reassigning the Interior Department’s top climate change official to a job managing fossil fuel royalties. revealnews.org/episodes/behin…
4/ He appointed former lobbyists to key jobs. revealnews.org/blog/trumps-in…
5/ Under Zinke, @BLMNational put countless archaeological sites at risk by auctioning off oil and gas leases in southeast Utah. revealnews.org/article/countl…
6/ Zinke’s solicitor’s office erased a policy that had been used by Republicans and Democrats since the Nixon administration to protect migratory birds. revealnews.org/article/egged-…
7/ Every mention of the human role in climate change was removed from a draft of a major National Park Service scientific report on sea level rise and storm surge. revealnews.org/article/wipeou…
8/ The references were reinserted after we exposed the attempted censorship. revealnews.org/blog/zinke-gri…
9/ Under @SecretaryZinke, a small New England national park was told that mentioning #climatechange would raise eyebrows.
So they deleted 16 references in a major planning document. revealnews.org/article/nation…
So they deleted 16 references in a major planning document. revealnews.org/article/nation…
10/ Zinke’s team directed the @Natlparkservice to cancel a policy that required science-based decision-making. revealnews.org/blog/top-inter…
11/ Those are but a few examples. @ColumbiaLaw’s “silencing science tracker” lists 34 examples of science being censored, defunded or hindered under Zinke. columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/sile…
12/ In his last weeks in office, @SecretaryZinke misinformed the public about the #nationalclimateassessment.
Zinke erroneously asserted that the report only looked at worst-case scenarios. @KHayhoe corrected him.
Zinke erroneously asserted that the report only looked at worst-case scenarios. @KHayhoe corrected him.
13/ Reporter @ShogrenE will continue covering the Trump administration and its attempts to downplay science in 2019.
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