WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement in response to President Trump stripping protections from the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments:
"Today's executive action is another chapter in this administration's War on the West.
"By once again stripping protections from the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments, President Trump is turning the Antiquities Act on its head. This law - championed by conservationist John Lacey, drafted by archeologist Edgar Lee Hewett, and signed into law by President Teddy Roosevelt- ...