President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Monday afternoon shrinking the size of two national monuments in Utah, which currently cover a combined 5,094 square miles, the Deseret News confirmed on background with a Utah source.
The new proclamations reduce the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument from approximately 1.87 million acres to roughly 181,500 acres, and the Bears Ears monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to roughly 121,100 acres.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — President Trump is signing an executive order that is expected to shrink Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. Governor Spencer Cox and Utah's federal delegation, made up of Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. John Curtis, Rep. Celeste Maloy, Rep. Blake Moore, Rep.
President Donald Trump on Monday sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by former presidents on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans.
President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Monday shrinking the size of two national monuments in Utah, reigniting a fight that has spanned the last three decades. The orders reduce the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears, removing a combined 3 million acres of the publ…
President Trump on Monday signed executive orders shrinking the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. “We’re actually giving more than we did the first time back to the people of Utah,” Trump said in an Oval Office signing.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to again shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The move continues a longstanding game of tug-of-war between multiple presidential administrations that has changed the boundaries of the national monuments…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Revisiting actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.
President Trump is decimating both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments. Why it matters: Monday's orders reduce protections on nearly 3 million acres in southern Utah , affecting more than 90% of each monument's area.
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment Your feedback matters to us. Take our brief newsletter survey to help us improve the newsletters you read every day. The Big Story Trump shrinks Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante President Trump on Monday signed executive orders shrinking the si…
President Trump on Monday reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by former presidents on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders slashing two national monuments in Utah to roughly a tenth of their current size, throwing open millions of acres of protected land to fossil fuel extraction and mining.
President Donald Trump on Monday sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by former presidents on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans.
Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah will lose ‘close to a million and a half acres each’ and open land to developers and oil industry Donald Trump has approved a sharp reduction in the size of two national monuments in Utah held sacred by many Native Americans, in the latest move to ope…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Revisiting actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.
President Trump signed two executive orders Monday slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, reversing Biden-era expansions and reigniting a decades-long battle over presidential authority under the Antiquities Act.
Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah have ancient cliff dwellings, petroglyphs and scenic canyons, as well as coal and uranium deposits.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed orders on Monday that slashed the size of two national monuments in southern Utah by more than 90% to allow for grazing, motorized recreation, logging and other resource development in the region.
President Trump on Monday significantly reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, cutting the amount of protected land that they hold by about 1.5 million acres each. Trump slashed protections for both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante during his first term to free up two million ac…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-shrink-2-utah-national-monuments-90-percent By Anders Hagstrom Fox News Utah Gov Spencer Cox praised the move, citing Antiquities Act limits on monument size as coal and uranium deposits open up President Donald Trump signed an executive order drastically shrin…
