The Gutting of Environmental Regulations in Trump’s Last Two Months
If there is any certainty about what will happen in the White House over the next two months, it’s the destruction of any remaining protections for our environment and park lands.
Here, we learn that Trump has withdrawn a major public lands bill, revealing what many of us knew from the beginning: his talk of being a conservationist was simply pre-election greenwashing.
The order affects the decades old Land and Water Conservation Fund, whose $900 million annual budget uses offshore fossil fuel revenues to establish and protect parks, wildlife refuges, forests and wildlife habitat. Now, state governors and local jurisdictions can veto federal land acquisitions made through LWCF.
