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It has always seemed a very odd thing to me that Repukes, many of whom live in rural areas and depend on the natural environment, are so willing to support a party that can't wait to cut down the next tree, turn beautiful waterways into sewers,
convert farmlands into oil fields, and destroy the habitat of every God given life. How do they follow people whose sole interest is making gobs of money while leaving the people nothing.
Judge Blocks Trump Plan To Open 10 Million Acres Of Public Land To Mining
·Trends Reporter, HuffPost
Sat, February 13, 2021, 12:09 AM
A federal judge in Idaho has tossed out ’s plan to open up 10 million acres of habitat on public lands to mining operations.
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill to the Western Watersheds Project and other environmental organizations, which had sued to protect the land. Winmill called the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to suddenly reverse protections for the bird’s habitat throughout the American West “arbitrary and capricious.”
“The court finds that the reasons given do not provide the reasoned explanation needed to support the BLM’s change in position regarding the need for the withdrawal, rendering the cancellation decision arbitrary and capricious,” Winmill wrote.
“We’re grateful our legal system once again protected the vanishing greater sage grouse from the ,” said Michael Saul, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which was also part of the suit.
“The Trump administration’s illegal gift to the mining industry lifted protections for 10 million acres of crucial sage-grouse habitat and would’ve pushed this beautiful bird closer to extinction. Now the new Interior secretary can establish appropriate habitat protections based on science, not favoritism to the mining industry.”
Erik Molvar, executive director of the Western Watersheds Project, called the ruling a of wildlife that depend on the habitats.
Most of the . The BLM and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had decided in previous years to bar mining in the areas to protect the sage grouse.
convert farmlands into oil fields, and destroy the habitat of every God given life. How do they follow people whose sole interest is making gobs of money while leaving the people nothing.
Judge Blocks Trump Plan To Open 10 Million Acres Of Public Land To Mining
·Trends Reporter, HuffPost
Sat, February 13, 2021, 12:09 AM
A federal judge in Idaho has tossed out ’s plan to open up 10 million acres of habitat on public lands to mining operations.
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill to the Western Watersheds Project and other environmental organizations, which had sued to protect the land. Winmill called the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to suddenly reverse protections for the bird’s habitat throughout the American West “arbitrary and capricious.”
“The court finds that the reasons given do not provide the reasoned explanation needed to support the BLM’s change in position regarding the need for the withdrawal, rendering the cancellation decision arbitrary and capricious,” Winmill wrote.
“We’re grateful our legal system once again protected the vanishing greater sage grouse from the ,” said Michael Saul, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which was also part of the suit.
“The Trump administration’s illegal gift to the mining industry lifted protections for 10 million acres of crucial sage-grouse habitat and would’ve pushed this beautiful bird closer to extinction. Now the new Interior secretary can establish appropriate habitat protections based on science, not favoritism to the mining industry.”
Erik Molvar, executive director of the Western Watersheds Project, called the ruling a of wildlife that depend on the habitats.
Most of the . The BLM and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had decided in previous years to bar mining in the areas to protect the sage grouse.
