PLEASE participate in this action by EarthJustice click the link and send a message to the BLM to deny the drumpf / trump-pence administration's plans to destroy the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments by reducing the size of the monuments and by opening them up to coal and uranium mining. Add your comments to the letter provided if you can, here is what I added after the first paragraph....
These lands, part the heritage and history of our nation, can not be sacrificed to satisfy the corporate greed of the fossil fuel industries and utilities and the nuclear fuel industries and utilities. They must not be destroyed by mining and drilling to prolong our dependence on dirty and unsafe energy sources when our nation is still reeling from back to back massive hurricanes and huge, deadly, destructive wildfires in California and throughout the Western U.S., the effects of climate change. We do not need more coal and uranium mines, we need more investment in wind, solar, tidal and other renewable energy resources. Stop Proclamation 9682 and protect the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments for eternity for the good of our nation.
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STOP TRUMP’S RACE TO MINE OUR MONUMENTS
Last December, President Trump flew to Utah and issued an order to strip protections from millions of acres in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante national monuments.
Now, the administration is scrambling to take advantage of Trump’s unlawful order, developing new plans to open these lands up to coal and uranium mining before Americans can have their day in court to protect the monuments.
These lands belong to the public, not to coal and uranium companies that want to plunder their resources, leaving devastation in their wake. Earthjustice is fighting back in court, but we need you to speak up. The Department of the Interior is taking public comments now — tell the Trump administration that these lands aren’t up for grabs.
Bears Ears and Grand Staircase are unique wonderlands. Bears Ears contains ancient cliff dwellings, kivas, and priceless petroglyphs, while Grand Staircase is home to a treasure trove of fossils — more than a dozen new dinosaur species have been discovered there since the monument was established.
Trump’s hasty plans will allow coal, oil, and gas companies to mine and drill nearly 700,000 acres of lands that rightfully should be part of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. Under this “preferred plan,” extractive industries will destroy almost all of the lands unlawfully cut from Grand Staircase — all for the private profit of a few corporations. These lands are far more valuable to the local economy and the local job market if they remain protected.
Trump’s plan will also exclude the Bears Ears Tribes — the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni, and Ute Indian Tribe — from truly having a voice in the management of public lands that hold their priceless heritage.
Help us stop this needless destruction. Weigh in now during the public comment period for Trump’s new plans for these monuments. These lands don’t belong to coal and uranium companies — they belong to all of us.
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