posted 09-19-2019 05:38 PM                  

Whenever the Trump administration has to pick a side, it consistently chooses to support businesses over the environment. As a result, Trump and his appointees have worked steadily to free corporations as much as possible from having to follow environmental regulations. For the Environmental Protection Agency, that's meant reversing dozens of restrictions like how much pollutants companies are allowed to dump in rivers or how often they have to check to make sure they aren't pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The administration is taking a different tactic with public lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) overseas 247.3 million acres, an eighth of the U.S.'s entire landmass. Its mission is "to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations." Naturally, the Trump administration is now trying to essentially eliminate it—the Department of the Interior, which oversees the BLM, has proposed scattering 300 employees at the bureau's DC office across the country and relocating the headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado, with a skeleton crew of 27. In a statement celebrating the announcement, Colorado's Republican senator Cory Gardner said, "Relocating the Bureau of Land Management to the Western Slope of Colorado will bring the bureau’s decision makers closer to the people they serve and the public lands they manage."

posted 09-19-2019 06:42 PM                  

quote:

---

Originally posted by reechee:

Whenever the Trump administration has to pick a side, it consistently chooses to support businesses over the environment.

---

posted 09-20-2019 06:47 PM                  

On to more important stuff...
Why don't San Francisco girls where mini skirts?
Because their balls would hang out!