Doug Burgum

Doug Burgum Explains It All For You

Is the Interior Secretary loony or cynical? We report, you decide.

Worried about the state of the National Park System? Concerned about whether Elon Musk’s chainsaw is destroying irreplaceable groves of Sequoias? Have no fear! Under criticism for staff cuts across the country, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is directing national parks to “remain open and accessible” and says officials will ensure proper staffing to do so. …

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And The Grift Goes On – This Time on Public Lands

Trump’s alleged plan for affordable housing on federal property is one more brick in a wall of corruption.

Today in the Department of FFS. The Wall Street Journal breathlessly reports, Trump Wants to Build Homes on Federal Land. Here’s What That Would Look Like. And then, not content with a series of graphics about where this housing could be, it also put out a big op-ed from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and HUD …

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All the President’s Men

The people occupying environment and energy positions will be anti-regulatory and pro-fossil fuel.

There will be a lot of dramatic fireworks on Day One of Trump’s second term, literally and figuratively. Yet his ability to achieve his agenda will depend on the people he’s chosen to run the government.  His energy and environment picks will follow the party line of expanding fossil fuels.  Yet they may not be as extremist as their predecessors in the first Trump Administration or as some of Trump’s advisors.

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