Trump's Plan to Screw Over National Monuments.

[Cattledog]

Link to tweet

On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order that opened up a review of 25 national monuments, potentially setting the stage for Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to resize or even revoke their protected status. Trump decried former president Obama’s designations as a “federal land grab,” while environmentalists worry the order is a precursor to expanding coal mining and oil drilling on America’s wildlands.

Neither Zinke nor Trump has confirmed this is the case, but in a sad bit of irony, The Wilderness Society noted yesterday that the official Bureau of Land Management Flickr account has radically shifted its focus away from, well, land, and onto fossil fuel development.

The BLM page has dozens of stunning albums full of wildflowers, paleontology, endangered species, and renewable energy initiatives. And yet the recent focus now is on harmful drilling practices, at the exact moment that Trump is deregulating the EPA and now, signaling that he wants to scale back protections on national lands. It sends a message.

http://gizmodo.com/trumps-plan-to-screw-over-national-monuments-is-mirrore-1794703725

[pfitz59]

1. Who needs clean air and water

or nice places...... Trump and his buddies have Mar-a-Lago

[Phoenix61]

2. Or a house that doesn't blow up due to fracking nearby

[shenmue]

3. Fuck him