WASHINGTON – As part of the Trump administration’s pressure to increase US energy production, federal officials will review and consider the limits of national monuments created under the previous presidents to protect individual scenes and cultural resources. Will
This Review – New Interior Secretary Doug Bergam has been presented in a Monday order – Arrival in the protection groups is raising the alarm that President Donald Trump Democrat that will shrink or eliminate monuments established by his predecessors, including Biden –
By February 18, Bergam gave agency officials to the agency officials to offer plans to comply with their order.
The most dangerous places include the bear’s ears and grand stairs in Utah, the national monuments, where state officials fought against their creation. Grand stairs have large coal reserves in the escalante, and beer is uranium in the mine area.
Trump reduced the size of both monuments during his first term, calling them “widespread land occupation”. It also lifted fishing restrictions within a vast marine monument off the coast of New England.
Biden later restored the reservations of the three sites.
Whether Trump has the power to change the limits of the current monuments, it is not clear and is part of the pending legal trial.
“It is a timid, neutral attack that attacks the country’s dear public lands, including national parks and monuments. These national treasures are widely beloved. Business owners, environmental and protection organizations in this group, and external entertainment. Supporters include.
The group said that national monuments promote public water and forest life, promote the economy of external production, protect trails and protect important places culturally and geographically.
Utah monuments have been covered by more than 3.2 million acres – this area is close to connectivity size. They were formed under the Antiques Act, which was made under a 1906 law, which was given the powers to protect the presidents historically, geographically important or culturally important.
The Supreme Court has confirmed the President’s authority to create national monuments, and both the Democrats and the Republicans, including Trump, have used the antiquity act.
Home Department officials declined to say whether any monuments would be collected and it was emphasized that no decision had been made. Bergam clearly did not mention any of the monuments in his order, but he cited the federal law that is in line with the 1906 law.
The Republican governor of Utah said last month that he supports the bears’s ears further shrinking. Government Spencer Cox said that Bergam’s election to monitor the Interior Department “Perhaps the only best decision made by Donald Trump was.”
The order was included in energy -related instructions that the former governor of North Dakota issued Monday to start his tenure in the Interior Department, which monitors more than 500 million acres of public lands, 400 There are more national parks and 560 national wildlife refugees. . Bergam also transferred to the widespread regulatory sanctions on oil, coal and gas industries adopted under Biden.
“We are committed to working together to unlock the full capabilities of the United States in energy domination and economic development so that we make life more affordable for every American family, while the world,” said in a statement Demonstrate the power of America’s natural resources and innovation. “
The main part of its actions is that the Trump administration’s view is that the United States is facing a “national energy emergency” at a time when domestic oil production is at the record level.
Groups representing the oil industry praised Bergam’s orders. “The US energy leadership has returned,” said Eric Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association.
But the announcement of the energy emergency has pulled the backback from Democrats and Environmentalists.
“If they are going to say that there is some energy emergency that subdue the antiquities act, they are laughing from the court.”
Weiss said that when Biden overturned them and never settled, Trump’s legal action challenging the lack of memorial lack is still pending.
Workers say the monuments under consideration have the support of local communities and businesses who have worked for years to ensure their safety.
Biden has also been named as national monuments in Nevada and Arizona in recent years, which are the key to the stories of the creation of tribes belonging to the area.
The Government of the Republican Nevada Joe Lombardo said at the time that the White House did not consult his administration – and in fact stopped clean energy projects and other promotions in the state.
