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
Peter Hannam
83d ago
Excellent read about what happens when the lobbyists take over
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We've been working for quite some time on this story on the breadth of Trump handing over public lands to oil&gas drillers. Please read about 3 of the precious places now less protected. W/ @JamesCTobias @alv9n @fffffrida @alastairgee and @wilderness data
Revealed: the full extent of Trump's 'meat cleaver' assault on US wilderness theguardian.com/environment/ng… #DonaldTrump #GOP #Republicans #EUGreenDeal #ClimateActionNow #ClimateAction #ClimateChangeIsReal #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #GretaThunberg
National parks, monuments and wildlife refugees must be kept in trust for future generations, not destroyed for short term economic or political benefits.
Trump has sold over 5.4m acres of land, roughly the size of New Jersey to oil and gas companies — the output from each of these contracts would heat our earth equivalent to over 1000 coal plants burning for an entire year.
Trump's aggressive pro-pollution, pro-climate-change moves get more attention, but don't overlook his relentless assault on US wilderness.
