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The United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
is the
United States federal executive department of the
U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most
federal lands and
natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to
Native Americans,
Alaska Natives,
Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and
insular areas of the United States. About 75% of federal public land is
managed by the department, with most of the remainder managed by the
United States Department of Agriculture's
United States Forest Service.[3]
The department is administered by the
United States Secretary of the Interior, who is a member of the
Cabinet of the
President. The current Secretary is
David Bernhardt, who serves in an acting capacity, and concurrently serves
the in Department as
Deputy Secretary. The
Inspector General position is currently vacant, with Mary Kendall serving as
acting Inspector General.[4][5]
Despite its name, the Department of the Interior has a different role from that
of the
interior ministries of other nations, which are usually responsible for
police matters and internal security. In the United States, national security
and immigration functions are performed by the
Department of Homeland Security primarily and the
Department of Justice secondarily.
The Department of the Interior has often been humorously called "The Department
of Everything Else" because of its broad range of responsibilities.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior
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-- 2018 --
December 4: Monumental Disaster at the
Department of the Interior
A new report documents suppression of science, denial of climate change, the
silencing and intimidation of staff
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/monumental-disaster-at-the-department-of-the-interior/
December 15: “Secretary of the Interior
@RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after
having served for a period of almost two years,” Mr. Trump
wrote on Twitter. “Ryan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want
to thank him for his service to our Nation.” The president said he would name a
replacement this coming week.
Mr. Zinke is the latest Trump official to exit an administration plagued by
questions of ethical conflict. And his departure comes as Mr. Trump has begun a
shake-up in his administration. In early November, the president fired Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, and last weekend he announced that his chief of staff,
John F. Kelly, was leaving.
In one of the final acts of Mr. Kelly’s tenure, his team told Mr. Zinke that he
should leave by year’s end or risk being fired in a potentially humiliating way,
two people familiar with the discussion said.
December 16: NY Times Slashes Ryan Zinke As
‘Not The Sharpest Knife In The Drawer’
Editorial dings Interior secretary as another “cheerleader” for the president’s
“boneheaded” energy strategy.
The New York Times ripped
outgoing Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke on Saturday as a cheerleader for President
Donald Trump’s “boneheaded” policy of “energy dominance.” The editorial
noted that Zinke is leaving his job under the shadow of an” impressive number” —
15 — “ethics investigations.”
“On his first day in office, Mr. Zinke rode a horse to work, in plain imitation
of Teddy Roosevelt. As president, Mr. Roosevelt protected 230 million acres of
American wilderness, including 18 national monuments. Ten months into his tenure
as Interior Secretary, Mr. Zinke recommended the withdrawal of some two million
acres from two national monuments in Utah established by Mr. Obama and Bill
Clinton, the largest shrinkage of public land protection in history.”
Zinke has often boasted: “No
one loves public land as much as I do.” But just this month his department
detailed the Trump administration’s latest anti-environment scheme to open
9 million acres to drilling and mining by stripping protections for the
ground-nesting sage grouse. It would open more land to drilling
than any other action by the administration to date, the Times reported. “No
one loves the sage grouse more than I do,” Zinke said last year.
Environmentalists are already steeling to battle Zinke’s No. 2, Deputy Interior
Secretary David Bernhardt, who is expected to be named acting secretary when
Zinke leaves.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/times-slashes-zinke-as-not-the-sharpest-knife-in-the-drawer_us_5c15bfe0e4b009b8aea7e1f2
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