Zinke’s decree was an admission that the agency had fallen short on its stewardship mandate, and an acknowledgment that Americans wanted better protection of public lands and waters. pic.twitter.com/n6pRJyYG9g — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) August 17, 2020That effort to rebrand Trump as a champion on environment and conservation has only ramped up as the 2020 election draws closer. So in March, Trump did an about-face on the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a federal conservation program established in 1964 that Trump tried for years to gut funding for. “The kind of things we’ve done are really record-setting.” It was indeed record-setting: the largest rollback of federal land protections in U.S. history. In another recent about-face, the Trump administration delayed a key permit for Alaska’s Pebble Mine ― a controversial project that the Obama administration blocked and that Trump revived early in his term.

Source: Huffington Post September 05, 2020 12:00 UTC