Zinke's Likely Successor Is a Former Oil Lobbyist

[EleanorR]

WASHINGTON — With Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke departing at the end of the year, the agency will likely be run, at least for a time, by its deputy secretary, David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist who has played a central role in enacting President Trump’s agenda of rolling back conservation measures and opening up public lands to drilling and mining.

Mr. Bernhardt’s supporters and detractors say that while Mr. Zinke has been the public face of some of the most significant reversals of public land protections in the nation’s history, behind the scenes it has been Mr. Bernhardt pulling the policy levers to enact Mr. Trump’s aggressive energy agenda.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/climate/zinke-interior-successor-bernhardt.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Please let this horrible cabal be gone soon.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Sure as hell wasn't going to be someone from Greenpeace.

I keep hoping they'll all be gone soon...

[SHRED]

2. Vultures and vampires

I hate these criminals.

[pecosbob]

3. Since the time of Daddy Bush

it is a given that GOP appointees to federal regulatory agencies are advocates of the industies they regulate.

[sarah FAILIN]

4. I think the guy that created Love Canal is dead

Otherwise it would totally be him.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Oh look! More swamp.

"I can't believe that Tiger bit me in the face" said the people who voted for the "Tigers Biting Peoples Faces Party"