Trump signed executive orders on Monday dramatically shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah. The orders remove nearly 3 million acres from monument protection and go further than the previous reductions Trump ordered during his first term. Environmentalists and tribal groups condemned the move and said a fresh legal fight is likely.
President Trump signed two executive orders cutting nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah. The Antiquities Act of 1906 gives the president the power to unilaterally declare national monuments on federal land as national monuments without needing Congress to pass a law.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The Republican's actions undo proclamations from his predecessors who deemed the sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act. Trump made similar moves during his first term, but many were reversed by his successor, President Joe Biden.
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Trump signed executive orders on Monday dramatically shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah. The orders remove nearly 3 million acres from monument protection and go further than the previous reductions Trump ordered during his first term. Environmentalists and tribal groups condemned the move and said a fresh legal fight is likely.
President Trump signed two executive orders cutting nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah. The Antiquities Act of 1906 gives the president the power to unilaterally declare national monuments on federal land as national monuments without needing Congress to pass a law.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The Republican's actions undo proclamations from his predecessors who deemed the sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act. Trump made similar moves during his first term, but many were reversed by his successor, President Joe Biden.
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