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After blaming "environmental terrorists," interior secretary admits climate change makes wildfires worse

Just days after saying wildfires in California "have nothing to do with climate change" and blaming "environmental terrorists" for worsening conditions, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is backtracking. Zinke admitted to CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang that climate change "of course" is a factor in California, which has seen the two largest wildfires in state history over the past year.
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