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Trump Shrinks Two National Monument Areas in Utah
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump signed proclamations significantly reducing the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. -
Interior Department Proposes Shrinking Some National Monuments
Opinion -environment-climate-news -U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke proposes to shrink the size and modify the management of at least 10 national monuments declared since Bill Clinton was president. -
Interior Department Moves to Shrink Multiple National Monuments
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration is reviewing 27 national monuments, considering shrinking them in size and altering the activities allowed within their borders. -
President Obama Declares Record 26th, 27th National Monuments
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In the waning days of his presidency, Barack Obama designated two new national monuments, preventing a variety of uses on 1.65 million acres of land in Nevada and Utah. -
County Commission to Obama: Don’t Establish Bears Ears National Monument
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Utah’s San Juan County Commission unanimously passed a resolution opposing the creation of Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) in within its boundaries as the 1.9 million acre monument would take up 37 percent San Juan County’s land. -
President Obama Imposes Massive Expansion of National Monument in Hawaii
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Despite objections from many prominent Hawaiians and a federal regional fishing council, President Barack Obama quadrupled the size of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. -
Obama Designates Three New National Monuments
Opinion -Over the objections of many local, state and federal legislators from the affected areas, in early July, President Barack Obama designated new national monuments in California, Nevada and Texas. -
Senate Bill Would Restrict President’s National Monument Power
Opinion -A bill sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) would restrict the president’s ability to unilaterally declare American lands and waters to be national monuments. Currently, the executive branch can make such designations without congressional approval. -
Obama: Stealing America One National Monument at a Time
Opinion -Thanks to the EPA’s announcement of the new C02 regulations and the Bergdahl prisoner swap, excessive executive power’s been in news cycle for the past week. -
Park Service Rejects Bicycle Race in Colorado National Monument
Opinion -The National Park Service (NPS) rejected a bicycle association’s request to stage part of a race in the Colorado National Monument. -
Citizens Rally in Montana Against National Monument Designations
Opinion -More than 2,000 citizens packed a Malta, Montana school gymnasium in September to protest the Bureau of Land Management’s push to declare a new national monument that would expand federal control of lands in the state. -
Utah Legislature Rejects National Monument Designations
Opinion -The Utah House and Senate have passed resolutions opposing the federal government designating any new national monuments in the state without the state’s consent. -
District court upholds Clinton national monuments
Opinion -A federal district court on November 15 upheld former President Bill Clinton's designation of six national monuments on federal lands in four Western states. -
Citizens sue President over National Monument
Opinion -Seven Arizona state lawmakers have joined 16 citizens to sue President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt over the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument recently created by the Clinton-Gore administration in Arizona under the Antiquities Act -
Sen. Rand Paul Mauled by Mob After Republican National Convention
Opinion -Editorial -Of course, the liberal mainstream media has downplayed this incident, just as they have done for the past three months regarding the rise of riots and violence in several American cities -
The Green New Deal means monumental disruption
Opinion -Editorial -Not just for energy, but for every aspect of our lives, living standards, culture and freedoms -
Coloradans Will Vote on National Popular Vote Law in 2020
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The law places Colorado in a compact of states that pledge to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate receives a majority of the NPV. -
U.S. House Committee Passes National Parks Upkeep Bill
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Bipartisan legislation to use revenues from energy production on federal property to pay down the large maintenance backlog at national parks was approved by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. -
Legislative Pulse: Wyoming Wins Wolf, Monument Battles
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Wyoming state Sen. Bruce Burns (R-Sheridan) says Wyoming's struggles have a lot to teach the country concerning relations with the federal government over endangered species and national monuments. -
Monumental, Unsustainable Environmental Impacts
Opinion -Editorial -Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage. -
Trump Challenges Monument Designations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump issued two executive orders that could reverse or significantly revise the size and management of national monuments declared by presidents since January 1, 1996. -
Mid-Atlantic Eyed for Marine Reserve, Monument
Opinion -With less than one year left in office, President Barack Obama is moving forward with plans to restrict fishing in two areas off the Atlantic Coast. -
Obama Designates Three New Monuments in California
Opinion -The Obama administration designated 1.8 million acres of California desert as three national monuments under the 1906 Antiquities Act on February 12. -
Activists Push to Create National Park in Maine’s North Woods
Opinion -A battle is underway over a proposal by Roxanne Quimby, the founder of skin care company Burt’s Bees, to create a new national park near Mount Katahdin in Maine’s north woods.