Ryan Zinke and the environment: a tragedy in three acts

At first I kept an open mind about Trump’s interior secretary. But it soon became clear he put the oil, gas and mining industry above our agency’s missionBack in 2017, the staff at the interior department was not hoping for the best, we were hoping for the competent. A presidential transition can bring dramatic change to the leadership of a federal agency – particularly the agency that manages the conservation and use of one fifth of America’s land area and the seabed of