Washington – As part of the Trump Push for the expansion of American energy production, federal officials will review and consider redrating the borders of national monuments created under the previous presidents for the protection of unique landscapes and cultural resources.
Overview – Loked on Monday Monday from the New Secretary of the Doug Burgum – Lift Alarms Among the president Donald Trump to reduce or remove the memes that established his predecessors, including Democrat Joe Biden.
Burgum gave the agency officials by 18. February to send plans about how to adhere to his order.
Among the findings that are the most simple risk and large staircase-escalanta national monuments in Utah, where state officials fought against their creation. Grand Stuir-Escalante holds large coal reserves, and the teddy ears have uranium.
Trump reduced the size of two monuments during his first term, calling them “massive land.” He also raised the fishing restriction within the marine monument that spreads with the new English coast.
Biden later renovated protection for all three locations.
Whether Trump has powers to change the boundaries of existing monuments, it is unclear and part is in legal form.
“This is a cunning, unpatriotic attack that attacks the underlying public countries, including national parks and monuments. These national mildly loved ones,” said the statement of the coalition of the National Proconator Monument. The Group includes owners of the company, environmental and preservation of the organization and outdoors for recreation.
National monuments preserve public water and wild animals, strengthen the external recreational economy, path protection and preserve cultural and geographically significant sites, the Group states.
Utah monuments include more than 3.2 million hectares – an area of almost the size of Connecticut. They were created within antiques, the 1906 Law, which gave presidents for the protection of locations regarded historically, geographically significant or culturally significant.
The Supreme Court confirmed the authority of the president to create national monuments, and both Democrats and the Republican – including the trump card – they used antiques.
The Officials of the Interior Department refused to say whether the monuments would allocate and emphasized that no decisions were made. Burgum did not explicitly mention any monuments in his account, but stated the Federal Statute, which corresponds to the 1906 Law. Years.
Utah’s Republican Governor said last month, he supports additional reducing ears ears. Gov. Spencer Cox said Burgum’s choice for monitoring the interior department “is probably the only best decision made by Donald Trump.”
The order was among the energy directives that the former Governor North Dakota betrayed his monday to start his mandate on the internal department, who oversees more than 500 million public countries, including more than 400 national wildlife and wild animal refugees. Burgum also moved to the opposite wide range of regulatory restrictions on oil, carboons and gas industries adopted under Bidule.
“We are committed to doing cooperating to unlock the full potential of America in the dominance of energy and economic development to make life more accessible for each American family, and in the statement said of American natural resources and innovations,” Burgum said in the statement.
Basically its actions is the statement of Trump administration that the United States experiences “national energy in emergencies” when domestic oil production at a record level.
Groups representing the oil industry praised Burgum orders. “American energy management returned,” said the president of the National Association of Okean Industries Erik Milito.
But the declaration on energy has extracted the return from the Democrats and the Environment.
“If he will say that there is any emergency energy that overrides the act of antiques, they will laugh from the court,” said Aaron Weiss with the West Priority Center.
A branch causing Trump’s previous monument residence is still in progress waiting when the Biden reversed and never settled, Weiss said.
Monuments that reconsider have the support of local communities and companies working for years to ensure their protection, activists said.
In recent years, Biden also marked the locations of national monuments in Nevada and Arizons who are key to creating telling tribes with tops to the area.
Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo said at the time that the White House did not consult his administration – and in force blocked pure energy projects and other development in the state.
2025-02-05 05:23:00
