THREAD: Over the holiday, @Interior quietly proposed a rule that would gut the Freedom of Information Act by making it more difficult for the American people to access public records and limiting transparency at the department... tinyurl.com/y8r7fkg4
(3/12) @Interior emails allowed @Politico reporters @Nickjuliano and @bjlefebvre to expose that @RyanZinke met at DOI headquarters with Halliburton Chairman David Lesar and other developers about a real estate deal involving Zinke’s foundation. tinyurl.com/y9gu7qwr
(4/12) @NYTIMES reporters @EricLiptonNYT and @LFFriedman revealed how oil and uranium industry interests were central to the Trump administration's motivations for downsizing Bears Ears National Monument - the result of a #FOIA lawsuit. tinyurl.com/ybu9gbzo
(5/12) @Washingtonpost reporters @dino_grandoni and @eilperin laid bare how senior political officials were trying squash climate change findings written by @USGS scientists. tinyurl.com/y9bdr4ej
(6/12) Documents available by #FOIA helped @Politico’s @nickjuliano discover that senior @Interior officials, amidst pressure from MGM lobbyists, rejected recs from federal experts on opening two Indian gaming casinos in the northeast. tinyurl.com/y9jzftq3
(7/12) @CNN reporters @sganim and @gregorywallace uncovered that @RyanZinke was skirting federal law by omitting meetings from his official calendar, resulting in more robust calendar releases. tinyurl.com/y8zkottr
(8/12) @Washingtonpost’s @drewharwell and @Reinlwapo uncovered questionable uses of taxpayer funded private travel, including Zinke’s Nevada flight (where he met with the @GoldenKnights) to his Montana home on an oil-and-gas executive-owned plane. tinyurl.com/ycr7vlla
(9/12) @Motherboard reporter @SarahNEmerson discovered that Trump appointees were attempting to squash a @GlacierNationalPark meeting between a @USGS scientist and Mark Zuckerberg about #climatechange tinyurl.com/y9qs6u66
(10/12) From documents released, then later redacted, @Washingtonpost’s @eilperin wrote how senior @Interior officials dismissed evidence showing that national monument protections boost tourism and spur archaeological discoveries. #MonumentsForAll tinyurl.com/ydx9gh55
(11/12) @JamesCTobias reported for @PacificStand how industry insiders and revolving-door lobbyists and lawyers have been influencing DOI's actions to prioritize resource extraction at the expense of conservation. tinyurl.com/y82aryju
(12/12) @BLM documents obtained by @adamfederman showed that Trump’s message of "putting an end to the war on coal" was in conflict with reality -- coal companies are scaling back, and in some cases shedding workers. tinyurl.com/y8f7g9fr
