brucerocheleau
Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Blog on Wildlife Politics at wildlifepolitics.org/blog author of Wildlife Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
- from black lung disease caused by coal. Tell Burgum what you think of him: He SUCKS! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Sec. Interior Burgum thinks bad effects of coal are a joke: he’s created COAL MASCOT to sell his mine-mine-mine program at same time he cut funding for cleaning up abandoned coal mines & is trying to block safety stds. for coal miners who suffer
- These $ would have gone to fund water projects in the West & National Park Service for land acquisition—Things that Secretaries of Interior WOULD NORMALLY support but not fossil-fuel flunky Burgum! www.wildlifepolitics.org/blog
- Stupidity of Trump & Burgum on Oil-Gas royalty rates verified: National Taxpayers bipartisan org. calculated that cut in rate to 12.5% from 16.67% will cost taxpayers $500 MILLION & there is NO EVIDENCE that it stimulated more bids.
- No, Burgum is first & foremost ENERGY CZAR & any Interior business other than speeding fossil fuels is of NO INTEREST to this jerk. www.wildlifepolitics.org/blog
- The result leaves visitors waiting & uncertain while gateway communities that depend on parks are hurting economically. Will Interior Sec. Burgum act?!
- National Park Service (NPS) is floundering on their Park Reservation System. They have not been implementing time entry reservations which have become very important because NPS is working with much fewer staff due to Trump/Burgum cutbacks despite record visitation.
- This what Trump/Burgum call “energy dominance”—actually energy stupidity! www.wildlifepolitics.org/blog
- No Matter How Stupid & Polluting: Trump/Burgum order coal plants to stay open despite owners pleading to close them b/c they’ve replaced the capacity from new (solar) sources & ratepayers will bear heavy costs & emit tons of carbon dioxide.
- A recent analysis found that Monuments BENEFIT nearby areas, destroying argument that they harming them. Surveys show that most state residents support monuments but surveys don’t measure what fossil fuel execs. want—the only matter of interest to Burgum/Trump. www.wildlifepolitics.org/blog
