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6 Dec 2017 03:12

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Trump on Monday signed orders to shrink two national monuments in Utah to open space for oil and gas production. All of the wells in the area, however, have been drilled dry and were capped decades ago. On Monday, President Trump announced his plan to shrink Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent, while also cutting Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by half, a move that could open up Utah to more oil and gas drilling. In the waning hours of Barack O...
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