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Fragments of toppled Civil War monuments still lie in a lot beside Interstate 95, near the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant—just a stone’s throw from the iconic "Marlboro Cigarette" in ...
This wouldn’t be the first time the Trump administration has taken a metaphorical axe to national monuments. In 2017, Trump ordered a review of more than 25 monuments with the goal of mining ...
now, according to the democratic coalition’s letter, national monuments make a major contribution to new mexico financially, bringing in billions of dollars. REPORTING Updated: 8:13 PM MDT Apr ...
More than a dozen Confederate monuments taken down in Maryland as a result of protests won’t have to be reinstalled, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order.
The fate of two newly named national monuments in California that stretch across roughly 850,000 acres of scenic lands — an area 28 times larger than of the city of San Francisco — remained ...
In 2017, Trump cut two national monuments in Utah—the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante—by more than 1.9 million acres, though the areas were later restored under Biden in 2021.
If the rollbacks do occur, "Trump's gutting of the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments (would be) a gruesome attack on our system of public lands," said Ileene Anderson, California desert ...
Shortly before he left office, President Joe Biden established the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands national monuments, encompassing more than 848,000 acres.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has directed his staff to review and possibly alter national monuments as part of a push to expand U.S. energy production, a move that could further shake up public ...
In January, Utah Republican Sens. Mike Lee and John Curtis introduced a bill to gut and reform the Antiquities Act, eliminating the president’s unilateral power to designate monuments.. Peterson said ...
The legislation, which Republicans introduced in both House and Senate, would strip the president’s authority to create national monuments, reserving that power to Congress.