Trump's assault on the American wilderness

[Innula Zenovka]

Revealed: the full extent of Trump’s ‘meat cleaver’ assault on US wilderness

After four years of Trump, protected places such as national monuments and wildlife refuges have opened to oil drilling, new maps show – with more on the way

www.theguardian.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The one ray of hope is that they did much of this in the most rushed and haphazard way possible, ignoring rulemaking and now acting without a Senate approaved director of BLM. That leaves most of the Trump actions wide open to legal challenges if we get a new administration soon. In some places the damage has been done, but in many cases it can be stopped.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Revealed: the full extent of Trump’s ‘meat cleaver’ assault on US wilderness

After four years of Trump, protected places such as national monuments and wildlife refuges have opened to oil drilling, new maps show – with more on the way

www.theguardian.com

On the same note:

75 ways Trump made America dirtier and the planet warmer

In the past four years, Trump has shredded environmental protections for American lands, animals and people

www.theguardian.com