Posted on 10/07/2021 7:25:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. Environmental protections at all three monuments had been stripped by former President Donald Trump.
The White House announced the changes Thursday night ahead of a ceremony expected Friday.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, expressed disappointment in Biden’s decision to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments, which the Trump administration downsized significantly in 2017.
The monuments cover vast expanses of southern Utah where red rocks reveal petroglyphs and cliff dwellings and distinctive buttes bulge from a grassy valley. Trump invoked the century-old Antiquities Act to cut 2 million acres (800,000 hectares) from the two monuments, calling restrictions on mining and other energy production a “massive land grab” that “should never have happened.”
The Biden administration has said the decision to review the monuments was part of an expansive plan to tackle climate change and reverse the Trump administration’s “harmful” policies.
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Utah should tell the federal govt to get bent and place Utah NG troops on it.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, expressed disappointment in Biden’s decision to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments, which the Trump administration downsized significantly in 2017.
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Quid pro joe is a pleaser.
Mochtar happy again
Yes, well, he did apparently pay a lot to get that coal out of play.
That is sure a pressing issue confronting the country at this moment.
It’s an illegal taking by the government.
MMGA
Make Moctar Great Again
AP article states uber RINO Mittens is displeased. Hey Mittens how does it fee to get it jammed up the ass and not even the courtesy of a text or phone call? That reaching across the aisle for “unity” really worked out well. What a d-bag
Naturally Biden reversed the decision. Trump did it, Biden must undue it. All traces of Trump accomplishments must be wiped out. Seems like one or two he missed, but then again, it has not been a year yet.
I’m shocked Artemis isn’t canceled. So far..
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