Montana Pol Offered Secretary Of The Interior -- December 13, 2016

From Politico:

President-elect Donald Trump has offered the interior secretary position to Montana’s freshman Rep. Ryan Zinke, an ex-Navy Seal commander, according to two transition officials and someone familiar with the offer.

The sources said Zinke has yet to accept and has given no indication as to which way he is leaning. But Zinke is also being discussed by prominent Washington Republicans as a possible 2018 candidate for the Montana Senate seat now held by Democrat Sen. Jon Tester.

He could take Interior job for two years, then run for senator if tea leaves look good. 

More from the linked article:

This is shaping up to be the most pro-energy administration in recent history. And that's a very good thing.

Policies now in place under Obama that demonize cheap, plentiful supplies of conventional energy while spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing inefficient "alternative" energy such as wind and solar will likely disappear — or be changed beyond recognition. As for the Paris Agreement on global warming that absurdly calls on the U.S. to reduce its CO2 output by nearly a third by 2030, it will likely be scrapped or ignored, since it's main purpose was to slow the U.S. economy.