Ryan Zinke
The Interior Department explored making the secretary's wife an official volunteer, which would have made her free travel more defendable.
The administration has taken a scalpel to reforms made in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
“It is sad to see this,” the first lady reportedly told her guide while viewing 105 tons of ash from an ivory burn.
The move comes just days before Idaho and Wyoming were set to allow the hunting of 23 bears.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Department of Interior is quietly preparing to offer hundreds of thousands of acres of public land for leasing to energy companies.
"We don't pay him to give us false information" about climate change, Jay Inslee complained.
An Interior Department official claims Secretary Ryan Zinke "did not see the proposal before it went out and was not happy about it."
Ryan Zinke, after saying California blazes have "nothing to do with climate change,” says "of course" it's a factor.
Two days after railing against the “uninformed” left, the Interior secretary claimed California's catastrophic blazes have “nothing to do with climate change.”
The interior secretary blamed environmental groups for blocking logging on public land.