Zinke's Energy Speech, Bristol Bay Mining, Funding the Census

Missoulian: Zinke earns Four Pinocchios for domestic energy production claims
Zinke Speech at the Heritage Foundation (speech starts at 13:37, talks on energy 18:14)

Missoulian: Democrats call EPA's Bristol Bay move 'inconsistent with basic logic'

2017 Proposal to Withdraw Proposed Clean Water Act Restrictions on Mining Pebble Deposit
“EPA's 2014 Clean Water Act Proposed Determination would have placed restrictions on the discharge of dredged or fill material from the potential mining of the Pebble deposit in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. EPA agreed to initiate a proposed withdrawal process pursuant to policy direction from EPA’s Administrator, and as part of a May 2017 settlement agreement with the Pebble Limited Partnership, whose subsidiaries own the mineral claims to the Pebble deposit.”

An Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on Salmon Ecosystems of Bristol Bay, Alaska

“Even in the absence of accidents or failures, the development of a mine at the Pebble deposit would result in the destruction or modification of streams, wetlands, and ponds. Local habitat loss would be  significant, because losses of stream habitat leading to losses of local, unique populations would erode the population diversity key to the stability of the overall Bristol Bay salmon fishery (Schindler et al. 2010).”

Missoulian: Commerce Secretary: Billions more needed for 2020 Census

Hearing on the 2020 Census