WASHINGTON With the Trump administrations hard push for increased fossil fuel production, it may come as little surprise that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would address the American Petroleum Institute , an oil and gas industry trade group.

But the location of a March 23 API board of directors meeting, where Zinke was a guest speaker, is raising eyebrows. As a recently published log of the interior secretarys scheduled meetings shows, the speech was held at Trump International Hotel in Washington, which has been at the center of conflict-of-interest concerns .

The half-hour talk was listed on Zinkes schedule as: Address API Board of Directors Meeting.