Trump plan to open national forests to oil and gas drilling rebuked as attack on biodiversity and in

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Trump plan to open national forests to oil and gas drilling rebuked as attack on biodiversity and indigenous lands

Published 8 hours ago on September 1, 2020By Common Dreams

“The administration really outdid itself with a proposal that has the Forest Service walking away from managing our national forests while closing the door on public oversight.

Defenders of wildlife and biodiversity on Tuesday decried a proposal released by President Donald Trump’s Department of Agriculture that would sharply curtail the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to weigh in on the activities of oil and gas giants in the country’s national forests, opening millions of acres of protected land to drilling operations.

The Trump administration officially entered its proposal into the Federal Register on Tuesday morning, explaing that a desire to decrease the “regulatory burden on the oil and gas industry” led the USDA to propose the rule change.

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