Earthjustice Statement: President Biden Restores Protections to Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons & Seamounts National Monuments
October 09, 2021
October 09, 2021
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (TNSPol) -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on Oct. 8, 2021:
President Biden issued a proclamation restoring protections to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah and to Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off the New England coast, reversing the largest rollback of federal land protection in U.S. history.
The Trump administration's 2017 proclamations sought to remove 85% of land protected in the Bears Ear . . .
President Biden issued a proclamation restoring protections to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah and to Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off the New England coast, reversing the largest rollback of federal land protection in U.S. history.
The Trump administration's 2017 proclamations sought to remove 85% of land protected in the Bears Ear . . .