To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Sign the petition: Hold Interior Secretary Zinke accountable for his corruption!
We, the undersigned, call on you as elected members of Congress to immediately take action to hold Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke accountable for his potential ethics violations.
Zinke has an extensive track record of acting to gut protections for our public lands and waters. He proposed gutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments so the fossil fuel industry could drill and mine there – with devastating impacts on local communities. He released a plan to massively ramp up oil and gas drilling off our coasts. And he wants to slash protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This could lead to Big Oil wiping out the porcupine caribou herd, which Alaska’s Gwich’in community has relied on for millennia.
Meanwhile, a foundation established by Zinke and chaired by his wife engaged in a real estate deal with the chairman of dirty energy giant Halliburton – which is already benefitting from Zinke’s attacks on our public lands and waters. Zinke has been wasting taxpayer money on chartered flights and helicopter trips. And the inspector general’s office has already launched 11 investigations into his actions.
We call on you to do everything in your power to ensure that Zinke is not personally benefitting from his position as Secretary of the Interior – and to hold him accountable for any ethics violations.
Sincerely,
Zinke has an extensive track record of acting to gut protections for our public lands and waters. He proposed gutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments so the fossil fuel industry could drill and mine there – with devastating impacts on local communities. He released a plan to massively ramp up oil and gas drilling off our coasts. And he wants to slash protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This could lead to Big Oil wiping out the porcupine caribou herd, which Alaska’s Gwich’in community has relied on for millennia.
Meanwhile, a foundation established by Zinke and chaired by his wife engaged in a real estate deal with the chairman of dirty energy giant Halliburton – which is already benefitting from Zinke’s attacks on our public lands and waters. Zinke has been wasting taxpayer money on chartered flights and helicopter trips. And the inspector general’s office has already launched 11 investigations into his actions.
We call on you to do everything in your power to ensure that Zinke is not personally benefitting from his position as Secretary of the Interior – and to hold him accountable for any ethics violations.
Sincerely,
Why is this important?
Already, there are a total of 11 confirmed investigations into Zinke’s corruption. This shows that at a minimum, Members of Congress should be asking Zinke hard questions about his potential ethics violations, as well as his relationships to the fossil fuel industry and other giant corporations.
Our public lands and the communities who depend on them are at stake. We can't let Zinke get away with this corruption.
Our public lands and the communities who depend on them are at stake. We can't let Zinke get away with this corruption.