Emails reveal oil and gas drilling was a key incentive to shrink Utah national monuments

Emails reveal oil and gas drilling was a key incentive to shrink Utah national monuments

Posted by on Mar 3, 2018 @ 11:53 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: March 2, 2018

From the start of the Trump administration’s review of national monuments, agency officials were directing staff at the U.S. Department of the Interior to figure out how much coal, oil, and natural gas had been placed off limits by the Bears Ears’ National Monument designation. Environmental activists and public lands advocates feared Trump was pushing to reduce the size...

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