President D Bernhardt served as Deputy Interior Secretary during Zinke\u2019s 21-month tenure at the helm of the department. In that role, he was largely responsible for running daily operations in Washington. During his tenure, he has reduced regulations and helped open millions of acres of federally-managed public lands to potential oil and gas development.\u00a0 Read <\/a>more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KRCC KUNC KUER WYOMING PUBLIC MEDIA By Nate Hegyi Originally published on February 5, 2019 3:24 pm Updated 6:36 p.m. MST President Donald Trump took to Twitter to nominate\u00a0David Bernhardt\u00a0as the nation\u2019s next Interior Secretary. The former oil industry lobbyist and longtime government employee has been acting Secretary\u00a0since Ryan Zinke stepped down last month\u00a0amid questions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-media-coverage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palOvU-fR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/files\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-12-at-2.48.36-PM-e1565643000369.png\")
<\/a>onald Trump took to Twitter to nominate\u00a0David Bernhardt<\/a>\u00a0as the nation\u2019s next Interior Secretary. The former oil industry lobbyist and longtime government employee has been acting Secretary\u00a0since Ryan Zinke stepped down last month<\/a>\u00a0amid questions about his ethics and conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n