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Undated: Ryan Keith Zinke (born November 1, 1961) is an American politician and businessman who served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration from 2017 until his resignation in 2019.[2] He previously served as the U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district from 2015 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, he served as a member of the Montana Senate, representing the 2nd district.[3]

Zinke played college football at the University of Oregon and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in geology. He also has an Master of Business Administration and an Master of Science in global leadership. He was a U.S. Navy SEAL from 1986 until 2008, retiring with the rank of commander.[4] The first Navy SEAL to be elected to the United States House of Representatives,[5] Zinke formerly served as a member on the Natural Resources Committee and the Armed Services Committee.[6] As a member of Congress, Zinke supported the use of ground troops in the Middle East to combat ISIS and opposed the Affordable Care Act, various environmental regulations, and the transfer of federal lands to individual states.

As Secretary, Zinke opened more federal lands for oil, gas and mineral exploration and extraction.[9] Zinke's expenditures as Secretary of the Interior, which included expensive flights, raised ethical questions and controversy, and were investigated by the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General.[10][11] His ethical troubles were the subject of a PBS News Hour report on October 19, 2018. On October 30, 2018, the investigation into Zinke was referred to the Justice Department by Interior's Inspector General.[12][13] Trump announced on December 15, 2018, that Zinke would leave his post on January 2, 2019,[14][15] to be replaced by his deputy David Bernhardt.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Zinke

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January 22: The Damage Done by Trump’s Department of the Interior

Under Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior, it’s a sell-off from sea to shining sea.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/the-damage-done-by-trumps-department-of-the-interior

June 16: Zinke linked to real estate deal with Halliburton chairman

In the interior secretary’s hometown, a development brings together the head of the nation’s largest oil-services company and a foundation created by the man who regulates it.

A foundation established by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and headed by his wife is playing a key role in a real-estate deal backed by the chairman of Halliburton, the oil-services giant that stands to benefit from any of the Interior Department’s decisions to open public lands for oil exploration or change standards for drilling.

A group funded by David Lesar, the Halliburton chairman, is planning a large commercial development on a former industrial site near the center of the Zinkes’ hometown of Whitefish [Montana], a resort area that has grown increasingly popular with wealthy tourists. The development would include a hotel and retail shops. There also would be a microbrewery — a business first proposed in 2012 by Ryan Zinke and for which he lobbied town officials for half a decade.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/ryan-zinke-halliburton-park-whitefish-montana-647731

July 23: Ryan Zinke’s War on the Interior

From gutting the Endangered Species Act to opening off-shore drilling – inside the Trump administration’s crusade to hand America’s public lands to the fossil-fuel industry
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ryan-zinke-trump-war-on-department-of-interior-700218/

December 15: Interior Secretary Zinke resigns amid investigations

Behind the scenes ... the White House had been pushing Zinke for weeks to resign, administration officials said. Last month, the officials said, Zinke was told he had until the end of the year to leave or be fired.

For Zinke, the key moment in his loss of support at the White House came in October, when Interior’s inspector general referred one of its inquiries to the Justice Department, according to two senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.

That probe, which continues, is examining whether a land deal Zinke struck with the chairman of oil services giant Halliburton in his hometown of Whitefish, Mont., constituted a conflict of interest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/interior-secretary-zinke-resigns-amid-investigations/2018/12/15/481f9104-0077-11e9-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2463fe0687ea

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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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January 2: Ryan Zinke has stepped down as interior secretary, resigning as planned amid a series of ethics investigations. In a tweet he said it's been a "high honor" to serve, adding that the agency has restored public lands, improved public access and "shall never be held hostage again for our energy needs."
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/677390503/the-new-acting-interior-secretary-is-an-agency-insider-and-ex-oil-lobbyist

January 7:
Interior's Stealthy Plan to Hide Public Records

Just days before Secretary Zinke left his post, the agency quietly proposed rules that would have it ignoring many Freedom of Information Act requests
https://www.outsideonline.com/2380381/interior-department-foia-record-access-change

January 9: Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defends legacy as he leaves
https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/former-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves/article_fd964b45-c0a2-5809-a9fd-4b1b3ee03821.html

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