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Enlarge / Zinke addressing the International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum in Princeton, NJ. (credit: Nate Anderson)

PRINCETON, NJ-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has seen things in his time as a Navy SEAL-and he wants to keep them far away from your family. "I don't want your kids to ever see what I've seen," he told a dimly lit ballroom of offshore wind energy executives at a Westin Hotel in Princeton this morning.

Zinke, sounding for a moment more like a left-leaning "no wars for oil" protestor than a Republican cabinet member, argued that producing energy in America was a moral imperative. Being held hostage by foreign energy-and being led into wars driven by that energy-was immoral. Thus, the Trump administration strives for "energy dominance," with an "all of the above" approach to energy production. Zinke was here to show that, despite the rhetoric about coal and oil, the Trump administration could be a friend to renewable energy producers.

"Let's make American energy great again!" Zinke called out.

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