The U.S. Interior Department Has a New Mission: To Make Money

Bloomberg: Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. agency that manages the national park system is tweaking its mission to include a new priority: Generating cash.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke aims to retool the agency into a federal profit center focused on increasing energy production, according to a plan laid out by his special adviser, Vincent DeVito.

"Our objective here is to bring as many resources online as responsibly as we can," DeVito said during an event in Washington Thursday. "We are changing the way the government is doing business."

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