Trump Administration Will Open Millions More Acres of Public Lands to Oil and Gas Drilling
The Trump Administration announced that it intends to open millions of acres of national forest land for oil and gas drilling, and they will not evaluate whether the areas being opened will cause any environmental impacts, nor will they give the public advance notice, The Hill reports.
Why This Matters: The Trump team seems to be speeding up their desperate efforts to help fossil fuels as the first (and hopefully only) term nears an end. There is no economic or national security rationale for this.
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