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Ryan Zinke can’t stop lying about national monuments

Dec 8, 2017

By Center for Western Priorities

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is trying as hard as he can to defend the indefensible‚Ää—‚Ääthe largest-ever reduction of public lands protections in American history.

In the days after President Trump signed a proclamation that attempted to remove more than two million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monuments, Secretary Zinke has used a set of egregious false and misleading talking points in the media.