In the week since the Washington Post published Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s secret final report on national monuments, a staggering number of falsehoods and misleading claims have come to light. The errors, taken in whole, suggest the entire report is nothing more than a pretext to open protected public lands and waters to extractive industries like coal, oil, timber, and industrial-scale fishing, with little attention paid to scientific accuracy.
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All of the falsehoods in Ryan Zinke’s leaked national monuments report
Sep 26, 2017
Issue: Ethics & Transparency, Land Protection
Subject: Interior, Lobbying & Politics, National Monuments, Utah
By Center for Western Priorities
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