Last week, the bulk of the National Parks Service advisory board resigned en masse in condemnation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's abject indifference to climate change and the department's massive roll back of protections for public lands. This comes on top of the Trump Administration's announcement that it will open up offshore oil drilling along the coasts of almost every coastal state.
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Adam Federman, whose prescient investigative series into the Department of the Interior under the Trump Administration, has been featured in The Nation Magazine over the past several months.
Adam Federman is a reporting fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. His writing has appeared in the Nation magazine, The Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Gastronomica, Adirondack Life and other publications. He is the recipient of a Polk Grant for Investigative Reporting, a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, and a Russia Fulbright Fellowship. His biography of British food writer Patience Gray, Fasting and Feasting, was named a NYT notable book for 2017.
Related Articles by Adam Federman:
Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke Are Purging Climate Scientists for Telling the Truth
This Is How the Trump Administration Gives Big Oil the Keys to Public Lands
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