Following the refusal last year of Senate Republicans to consider President Obama’s nominee, the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch is being met with controversy.
Congressman Zinke has championed the coal industry at the expense of U.S. taxpayers and has expressed inconsistent positions on the science of climate change.
Fundamentally opposed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mission, the Oklahoma attorney general sued the EPA multiple times. He also received more than $318,000 from fossil-fuel companies since 2002.