Trump administration suppressed national monuments information

Trump administration suppressed information to justify opening up our national monuments to drilling, mining, and other corporate plunder.

I'll be honest with you as Robert Redford shares below, we're facing the biggest fight of our lives against the Trump administration

And to underscore the urgency, a scathing new Washington Post report just found that the Trump administration suppressed information to justify opening up our national monuments to drilling, mining, and other corporate plunder.

They ignored key evidence showing the economic benefits of protecting our monuments, emphasizing only benefits from oil, gas, mining, industrial fishing, and timber.

This is just one more example of Interior Secretary Zinke ignoring warnings from within his own agency that eviscerating protections for Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments would jeopardize some of America's most sacred cultural sites.

NRDC is fighting back harder than ever. Since Inauguration Day, we've sued the Trump administration about once every eight days and won a string of legal victories that have thwarted the Trump anti-environment onslaught.