September 18, 2017
Washington, DC- In response to the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendations that several national monuments, both land and marine established under the Antiquities Act, should be either shrunk or modified, Greenpeace USA Climate Campaigner Mary Sweeters said,
“This is what happens when federal agencies are stacked with seasoned lobbyists and pandering politicians ready to bend over backwards for the oil and gas industry. Shrinking monuments like Bears Ears in Utah and the Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon tramples over the rights of communities, particularly native communities, while seizing public land and leaving it on the table for corporate interests. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke may be good at paying lip service to vague concepts of conservation, but it’s crystal clear that he is just an oil and gas flack who happens to ride a horse.”
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