interior secretary ryan zinke
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Tight timetable on federal oil and gas lease sales is scrambling protests
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Oil and gas leasing on federal lands is revving up in Colorado and across the West, with shorter time frames for comment and bigger lease sales as environmental groups rush to meet Monday’s deadline to get in their protests on the upcoming September lease sales. “We’ve gone from a 30-day protest period to a 10-day period…
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Western guvs’ tilt on Endangered Species Act gets thumbs-up from landowners
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On the same day they heard Trump administration Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke bemoan a “breach of trust” between the public and the federal government in the West, the region’s governors called for changes in a federal law they say bears some of the blame for that breach. The Western Governors Association adopted a resolution at their annual meeting…
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Interior chief to Colorado’s Cory Gardner: Ancients ain’t on the bubble
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So, maybe all us Coloradans at last can stop our worrying, OK? U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s office even provided a video clip of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke confirming for Gardner in a committee hearing Tuesday what Gov. John Hickenlooper had concluded earlier this year: that Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Southwest Colorado isn’t going…


