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(DIR) Post #AtPsQZj1h07iJTkEHg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T12:45:55Z
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EXCLUSIVE
#Trump aides look at shrinking at least 6 #NationalMonuments for #mining, #oil
#Interior Department officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage energy development on #PublicLands.#land #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/24/trump-national-monument-reductions-mining-oil/
(DIR) Post #AtPvCulcxi2nNk8gHw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:17:06Z
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#Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal #protections for #NationalMonuments spanning millions of acres in the West, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal #Interior Department document, in order to spur #energy development on #PublicLands.
#land #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPvOJsTwSc8Rjmdd2 by BlueWaver22@genomic.social
2025-04-24T13:19:06Z
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@Nonilex 🤬🤬🤬🤬
(DIR) Post #AtPvX7imVbHJLlRbJQ by dbc3@mastodon.world
2025-04-24T13:20:41Z
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@Nonilex They are ll rapists
(DIR) Post #AtPw9AxCwDUiNdKvoG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:27:38Z
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#Interior aides are looking at whether to scale back at least 6 #NationalMonuments, said these individuals…. The list, they added, includes Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the #GrandCanyon, Ironwood Forest, Chuckwalla, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante—national monuments spread across #Arizona, #California, #NewMexico & #Utah.#Trump #SacredLand #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPwZngzX2WC3RRnFY by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:32:19Z
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#Interior ofcls are poring over geological maps to analyze the monuments’ potential for #mining & #oil production & assess whether to *revise* their boundaries……#Trump’s policies…aim to boost American #energy & critical #minerals production, which he says is vital to economic growth & powering #AI. Trump declared a “national energy emergency” [there isn’t one], established an energy council to fast-track resource development projects & sought to dismantle dozens of #environmental #protections.
(DIR) Post #AtPwzeTcPzIP0AWFSS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:36:28Z
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The push would spark an intense #legal fight over the right of a president to grant sweeping #lands #protections under the 1906 #AntiquitiesAct — & take them away. In his 1st term, #Trump became the 1st president in more than half a century to modify existing #NationalMonuments when he drastically shrank the boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante—only for Pres Joe #Biden🦸♂️to reverse the cuts.
#PublicLands #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Environment #law
(DIR) Post #AtPx6QEvkV6SsEsRsG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:38:17Z
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In 2021, #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts invited litigants to challenge how presidents of both parties have used the #law to ban commercial activities in vast stretches of #land & #ocean.The law limits presidents to protecting “the smallest area compatible with the care & management,” Roberts wrote. “Somewhere along the line, however, this restriction has ceased to pose any meaningful restraint.”#Trump #conservation #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPxNSKnDNFWIDk2ca by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:41:24Z
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#Conservation & #Indigenous advocates argue that there is little demand to develop those resources & that the #NationalMonuments represent vital #ecological & #sacred cultural reserves that local communities fought for years to #protect.#Trump #SacredLand #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPxONsnFdJamB5V20 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:41:36Z
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“They opened up Grand Staircase under the previous [#Trump] administration & the #coal market did not rush in, the #oil & #gas market did not rush in, nobody rushed in,” said Tracy Stone-Manning, who led #Interior’s Bureau of #Land Management under #Biden. “There are plenty of #minerals elsewhere. This is about an #ideological battle.”#Trump #SacredLand #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPxjYa4ffVG2LQae0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:45:24Z
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While #Interior ofcls declined to comment about any potential monument review, the approach was outlined in a “strategic plan draft framework” shared w/ WaPo. One of the dept’s “potential performance measures” going forward, acc/to the document, will be making sure #NationalMonuments are “assessed & *correctly* sized.”#Trump #SacredLand #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPxxZwoO12GKVkWES by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:47:56Z
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The draft strategic plan spells out the #Trump admin’s #Interior Dept’s priorities through 2030, which include increasing production of #FossilFuels, opening #lands in #Alaska & elsewhere to #minerals extraction, reducing grazing costs & trying to “release” federal holdings for housing #development.#SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPy0xow5FVvEtgC6y by MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net
2025-04-24T13:48:26Z
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@Nonilex I am sure the companies recognize a political football when they see one. If one administration can put the football down, another can yank it away, Lucy and Charlie Brown style. Hard to run a business that way.Also, localities now understand that mining ain't so great for the local economy. It is mostly mechanized and uses a lot of transient labor that brings its own problems. Tourism is much better at providing local jobs that actually provide community support.Surprisingly, the economic model of the 1880s doesn't work so good any more.
(DIR) Post #AtPy7FDAL124uh0XNw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:49:41Z
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Other performance metrics include removing #protections for #EndangeredSpecies that have *recovered* & restoring “historic [racist] names” to #landmarks. On his first day back in office, #Trump stripped #NorthAmerica’s tallest mountain of its #Indigenous name, #Denali, & restored its previous title, Mount McKinley.#SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPyPg6z3uEpYVuEwC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:52:56Z
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Signed into #law by President Theodore Roosevelt, the #AntiquitiesAct of 1906 gives presidents vast powers to #protect #lands & #waters through the creation of #NationalMonuments. But the law is quiet on whether presidents can remove designations set by their predecessors.
The Bureau of Land Management administers ~17k square miles of national monuments in the West….#Trump #SacredLand #PublicLands #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw
(DIR) Post #AtPyaHXyjVD2YUaZjE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:54:56Z
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*#Conservatives* in Western states especially have long seen the president’s power to unilaterally set aside land as an example of federal overreach, w/many viewing it as a burdensome restriction on #mining & #drilling.…During his confirmation hearing, Interior Secretary #DougBurgum said the #AntiquitiesAct is meant only for small, “Indiana Jones-type archeological” sites.🤦🏼♀️#Trump #SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #conservation #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
(DIR) Post #AtPyirHjkAK3iB57Gy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-04-24T13:56:29Z
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But Kristen Brengel, senior VP of govt affairs at the #NationalParks #Conservation Association, noted Roosevelt himself used the #law to #protect the huge swath of #land that later became #GrandCanyon National Park.
“He stood on the rim of the Grand Canyon & said he was going to protect it, & then he did,” she said.#Trump #SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw
(DIR) Post #AtQ2qoj3XiG1uIuVWa by CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
2025-04-24T14:42:41Z
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@Nonilex HANDS OFF!