Washington, July 13 -- Representative Jared Huffman issued the following press release:
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after President Trump signed executive actions shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments:
"Trump has been selling out our public lands and waters since the day he took office. He opened every marine monument in the country to commercial fishing, auctioned off the Arctic Refuge for pocket change, and tried to gut the Park Service by more than a billion dollars to clear a path for selling public lands outright. Today, he illegally opened up two of the most extraordinary landscapes in America at the behest of pollutin...