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      Amid Record Pump Prices, Oil Giants Enjoy 'Sky-High' $41 Billion Q1 Profits: Report

      Halliburton's CEO boasted about oil and gas companies creating a "perpetual threat of undersupply that is supportive to commodity prices" while touting profits.

      Brett Wilkins
      May 11, 2022

      Amid record gas prices and fossil fuel industry profits, Big Oil is "trying to squeeze even more cash out of American consumers," according to a report published Wednesday by the watchdog group Accountable.US.

      "Unfortunately for consumers, good news for Big Oil's bottom line never seems to be good news for them."

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      Accused of Lying to His Own Agency's Investigators, Departure Doesn't Save Zinke From DOJ Probe

      Accused of Lying to His Own Agency's Investigators, Departure Doesn't Save Zinke From DOJ Probe

      "Someone should let Zinke know that resigning doesn't save you from prison."

      Julia Conley
      Jan 02, 2019

      Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke left office Wednesday following a Trump administration tenure characterized by aggressive environmental regulatory rollbacks as well as 18 federal investigations into his ethics, spending, and conduct while in office--but his resignation has not saved him from a Justice Department probe into potentially criminal violations.

      The Washington Postreported Thursday that the DOJ has opened a probe into whether Zinke lied to his own agency's investigators about his involvement in a land deal in Montana and the blocking of a casino project proposed by First Nations tribes in Connecticut.

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      Watch: In Comedic Video, Ryan Zinke Boasts About His 17 Federal Probes and Demands to Know: "Why Won't Anyone Fire Me?"

      Watch: In Comedic Video, Ryan Zinke Boasts About His 17 Federal Probes and Demands to Know: "Why Won't Anyone Fire Me?"

      "Are you Big Oil? I'm looking for a new land deal."

      Julia Conley
      Nov 10, 2018

      Following former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's resignation last summer amid numerous scandals regarding his lavish spending and extreme secrecy, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke holds the dubious honor of being the Trump administration official under the most scrutiny by federal investigators--a fact one climate action group drew attention to in a comedic video this weekend.

      Introducing an actor dressed in a Zinke mask as the "corrupt grifter-cowboy-friend-of-Halliburton," Friends of the Earth (FOE) shredded President Donald Trump's unsurprising selection of an Interior Secretary who has demonstrated loyalty to fossil fuel companies over groups that aim to protect U.S. public lands.

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