The U.S. government implemented final management plans Thursday for two national monuments in Utah that President Trump downsized. The plans ensure lands previously off-limits to energy development will be open to mining and drilling despite pending lawsuits by conservation, tribal and paleontology groups challenging the constitutionality of the president’s action — Los Angeles Times
About two years ago, President Trump cut the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by almost 50 percent and the Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent. The President said the scaled back size was to reverse misuse of the Antiquities Act by previous Democratic presidents that he feels led to oversized monuments that hinder energy development, grazing ad other uses, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The plans come despite pending lawsuits from conservation, tribal, and paleontology groups arguing that the downsizing was unconstitutional.
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This man chooses to be freely beholden to groups that used to have to pay good money to ruin the environment for profit.
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