Thursday, June 19, 2025

Interior Secretary Zinke Steps Down

From The Hill Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke formally left his position Wednesday, tweeting that it has been a “high honor” to serve President Trump and the American people. Zinke announced his plan to resign last month amid numerous investigations into whether he violated ethics standards. Zinke, whose 22-month tenure was marked by rollbacks of environmental policies and a push to boost fossil fuel production, had planned Wednesday

FERC Commissioner McIntyre Dies

From The Hill Kevin McIntyre, a member of the five-person Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), died Wednesday at the age of 57, the commission said Thursday. McIntyre, a Republican who had chaired the commission between his Senate confirmation in December 2017 and October 2018, had suffered from brain cancer. He had surgery in the summer of 2017 to remove a