The new Lincoln Memorial Undercroft museum enshrines America’s highest ideals, however unrealized.
Department of the Interior
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The Trump Administration is Inviting Another Deepwater Horizon Event
The government is removing the protections against another huge marine oil spill.
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We Have Met the Climate Enemy, and He Is Us
It’s about time we grapple with the ultimate inconvenient truth.
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The Interior Department Is Putting the Fossil Fuel Industry First and Americans Last
I was a top official at the Department of Interior. Ryan Zinke’s push to drill everywhere will dramatically worsen the dangers of global warming.
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Trump Proposes Firing 2,000 Park Rangers
After gutting Federal Government’s revenues to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump is looking to save some nickels by ruining our National Park Service.
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The Perversity of Pruitt
30 years ago today, in a New Hampshire campaign appearance, Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis declared, “We need someone in the White House who understands that America should be the leader on international environmental questions.” Had Dukakis—who denounced Republican opponent George H. W. Bush as “a charter member of the environmental wrecking crew that went […]
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What if Senators Murkowski and Collins Defected?
Could Trump’s threats lose the GOP their Senate majority?
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The GOP’s Turn to Fake Science Should Have Consequences
The GOP is filling government with fake scientists who will give them a fake scientific consensus.
