Zinke says Interior Department will continue climate research

Published June 8, 2017 6:40pm ET



Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told lawmakers Thursday that his agency is doing research on climate change, but it will be focused in one division of the sprawling department instead of four or five.

“So, on the climate issue … we saddled it in one division because I want to know from a division what’s going on,” Zinke told the House Appropriations Committee’s panel on Interior and related agencies.

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