The Trump administration has used its executive power to challenge the status of national monuments and to open off-coast marine sanctuaries to oil drilling.
More than a billion acres of US public land and up to 30 national monuments are currently at risk. Do states and citizens have the power to turn back this rush for public lands?
Guests:
David Helvarg, award-winning journalist, author, and executive director of Blue Frontier
Caty Enders, contributing editor at the Guardian where she leads the series This Land is Your Land
Resources for taking action:
Secretary of Commerce (re: Saving Marine Sanctuaries) 202-482-2000
Secretary of the Interior (re: Saving National Monuments) (202) 208-3100
You can register your comment at: Save Our Marine Sanctuaries
Other web resources:
The Guardian:'This Land Is Your Land' series
New Yorker:What Will Become of Federal Public Lands Under Trump?
Think Progress:Trump administration officially files to make it easier to frack public lands
High Country News:Bundy Ranch ‘gunmen’ face retrial in Las Vegas
NYTimes:At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins
LATimes: Op-Ed If America’s public lands were a business, the GOP would be bungling the balance sheet
U.S. Senate:Public Lands, Forests and Mining Subcommittee legislative hearing to receive testimony on various bills.