Interior Secretary accidentally shares emails about exploiting protected land

[KepKip]

In a quest to shrink national monuments last year, senior Interior Department officials dismissed evidence that these public lands boosted tourism and spurred archaeological discoveries, according to documents the department released this month and retracted a day later.
The thousands of pages of email correspondence chart how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his aides instead tailored their survey of protected sites to emphasize the value of logging, ranching, and energy development that would be unlocked if they were not designated as national monuments.
These redactions came to light because Interior’s FOIA office sent out a batch of documents to journalists and advocacy groups on July 16 that they later removed online.
“It appears that we inadvertently posted an incorrect version of the files for the most recent National Monuments production,” officials wrote July 17. “We are requesting that if you downloaded the files already to please delete those versions.”

Trump administration officials dismissed benefits of national mo..

In a nut shell the Secretary of the interior intentionally tampering analysis of protected land in the United States, saying that they have great value for logging and mining. Trump has already been shrinking and removing protected land in the United States, and many 'dirty' industries such as mining and oil having been lobbying for this sort of thing for years.

[Borealis]

Ryan Zinke should get his ass haunted by Theodore Roosevelt.

[MR-X]

Hey, its a good idea. If everything is destroyed and polluted we have nothing to fight over!

[Shier]

W O O P S

Butter fingers

[Borealis]

Republicans William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt created the national park system in the US.

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Shame how far they've fallen.

[That Deer]

What a shock, dirty corrupt politicians are dirty and corrupt.

Vote these fuckers out if you still want an earth to live on.

[Zero-Point]

And Nixon started the EPA.

[Borealis]

Would Nixon be a neoliberal these days or even more left?

[Clovis]

Ahaha. Do these idiots not know how the Internet works? Have they never heard "don't think of a pink elephant?"

[Helix Snake]

I don't think neoliberal means what you think it means

[Borealis]

Afaik neoliberal means center-left on social issues while center-right or right on economic issues. The people trying to shut down the progressive left, Joe Lieberman, third way etc

[DesolateGrun]

thats my boss
he a bad man!

[Sableye]

to be fair literally the next republican was too slimey for roosevelt