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"Zinke Reprimanded Park Head After Climate Tweets" [1]

"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke brought the leader of a California park to his office last month to reprimand him for climate change-related tweets the park had sent via Twitter, two sources close to the situation said.

Zinke did not take any formal disciplinary action against David Smith, superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park. And the tweets at issue weren’t deleted, because they didn’t violate National Park Service or Interior Department policies.

But Zinke made it clear to Smith that the Trump administration doesn’t want national parks to put out official communications on climate change."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill December 15, 2017. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Secretary Zinke Bans Reporter for Honest Coverage of His Terrible Fishing Ability" (Montana Post) [3]

"Ryan Zinke Is Trump's Attack Dog on the Environment" (Outside) [4]

"Interior: Survey Finds Widespread Harassment Across Department" (Greenwire) [5]

"Top Interior Official Stayed At Montana Resort That Secretary Zinke’s Billionaire Friend And Donor Owns" (Huffington Post) [6]
 

Climate Change [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Fish & Fisheries [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Public [13]
Source: The Hill [2], 12/15/2017
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/zinke-reprimanded-park-head-after-climate-tweets [2] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364994-zinke-reprimanded-park-head-after-climate-tweets [3] https://themontanapost.com/2017/12/11/secretary-zinke-bans-reporter-for-honest-coverage-of-his-terrible-fishing-ability/ [4] https://www.outsideonline.com/2266216/man-flies-his-own-flag [5] https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060069045 [6] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/interior-official-zinke-montana-resort_us_5a2aae73e4b073789f693195?ace [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries [10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [11] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population [12] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [13] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81