Sentences with phrase «many national monuments»

«Patagonia to Sue Trump Over Rollback of National Monuments (by Joseph Hincks)

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

Originally built in 1927 and remodelled in 2008, this old — world hotel is now a national monument.

Environmental groups sued President Trump Hours after he announced he would shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monuments in Utah.

At the center of his efforts is a Roosevelt - era law called the Antiquities Act which allows presidents to designate «objects of historic or scientific interest» as National Monuments.

President Trump is expected to sign several executive orders this week, ahead of his 100th day in office on Saturday, including one aimed at reviewing the prior designations by presidents of «National Monuments.»

So for the past three years, dozens of Christians from GKI and HKBP have been gathering on Sundays to worship in a plaza near the country's national monument and presidential palace as a way to protest the local government's inaction.

By the end of his long life in 1935, Holmes was virtually a national monument, and liberal intellectuals found it convenient to portray him positively as a forerunner of the new governing philosophy.

One can visit a lot of national monuments after hours: no crowds, no tourist trams, no hawkers, plus I could try my hand at night photography (hope you don't mind if I show a couple results, dedicated to Lincoln and King).

Under the Director of Waqfs a staff of architects and civil engineers are freeing national monuments from their slum - like surroundings and restoring their original beauty.

Mevlana was buried at Konya where his tomb has been made a national monument and is visited by a constant stream of people who come from all over Turkey and from many other countries.

It was very moving to see them light candles and bring flowers to the scenes of the tragedy or to national monuments.

As CEO of Patrick Properties Hospitality Group, Randall Goldman has for two decades carried out the vision of lovingly restoring Charleston's most historic properties, shaping distressed heirlooms into national monuments of preservation and valuable generators of revenue for the surrounding community.

Unless you want to destroy the rest of the national monuments, too, you Ron Swanson, you.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump alter the way several national monuments are managed, including the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off the New England coast — the only marine monument -LSB-...]

Dozens of people testified at Public School 41 in the West Village last night in support of a proposal to create the first national monument to the gay rights movement, anchored by the Stonewall Inn and neighboring Christopher Park.

Slamming what he called «a massive federal land grab,» Trump signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands.

Even before Trump officially opened his high - profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.

It was designated a national monument on June 24 by President Barack Obama.

In his remarks, Chairman of the occasion and General Secretary of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Pa Ayo Opadokun urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently recognize late Abiola as a former President of Nigeria and name a national monument after him.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday praised the announcement from President Obama that the iconic Stonewall Inn in New York City would be designated a national monument.

The monument will preserve Christopher Park across from Stonewall Inn, as a national monument to LGBT history in the U.S..

Trump dramatically scaled back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, cutting Bears Ears to 220,000 acres from 1.5 million and slicing the 2 - million - acre Grand Staircase - Escalante in half.

The outdoor clothing brand Patagonia is joining environmental groups and Native American tribes in the fight against Trump's attempt to scale back national monuments.

At 6 p.m., Rep. Jerry Nadler, U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan Jarvis hold a public meeting on the Obama administration's proposal to make Stonewall Inn & Christopher Park a national monument, PS 41, 116 West 11th St., Manhattan.

National Forest Mining — Vote Passed (216 - 204, 13 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would prohibit the designation of national monuments and the withdrawal of lands in the National Forest System in the state of Minnesota from mineral and geothermal leases without the approval of Congress.

Rep. Faso Recent Votes Tracking Rep. Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com Megavote December 5, 2017 National Forest Mining — Vote Passed (216 - 204, 13 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would prohibit the designation of national monuments and the withdrawal of lands in the National Forest System in the state of Minnesota from mineral -LSB-...]

He pressed former President Barack Obama to make the land a national monument, which he did in August 2016.

At 10 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will appear live on WNYC's the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss Queens Boulevard, Zika preparedness, making Stonewall Inn a national monument and other topics.

The Washington Post reports: While most national monuments have highlighted iconic wild... Read

From stem - cell law to national monuments, the president - elect has myriad opportunities to transform the research landscape

Today GSENM is the largest national monument in the United States.

The national monument designation eventually will ban all commercial and recreational fishing within its borders.

Last year's much - derided analysis by the Department of Homeland Security reduced New York City's homeland security funding by 40 percent to $ 124 million, concluding that the metropolis contained no national monuments or icons — somehow skipping over the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Wall Street, among others.

The national monument designation comes with a mandate for more funding for law enforcement, which means more eyes on the ground to keep fossil thieves at bay and more money for education «so that people know there are fossils out there,» Gay says.

A president designates a national monument under the Antiquities Act, using authority delegated to him by Congress.

The national monument designation would prohibit new mining operations, and the mine's owner, Energy Fuels, is seeking to expand the mine from its current 2 hectares to about 19 hectares.

A stretch of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod more than four times the size of Rhode Island has become the first U.S. marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) is leading the charge to dismantle the state's sole national monument, arguing that the public has seen a reduction in access to the nearly 88,000 - acre site, largely made up of former working timberland.

Greenpeace has similarly highlighted the area's energy stores, noting that it is among the six national monuments with the largest potential energy development if its boundaries are reduced or eliminated (Greenwire, May 10).

«Diverse communities across the desert fought for over a decade to designate all three of our California desert national monuments,» Mojave Desert Land Trust Executive Director Danielle Segura told the Highland Community News in California on Wednesday.

The five marine monuments included in the Interior review are also part of a Commerce Department study examining whether 11 marine national monuments and national marine sanctuaries should be opened to oil and gas development (Greenwire, Aug. 16).

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a former Democratic House lawmaker, has threatened to file suit against the Trump administration if it tries to alter the Berryessa site or any other of the state's national monuments (Greenwire, June 9).

Two stretches of ocean about 210 kilometers southeast of Cape Cod have become the Atlantic Ocean's first U.S. marine national monument.

It is similarly unclear where he will come down on controversial national monuments designated by Obama, such as Bears Ears.

Dear EarthTalk: What is the status of Hawaiian monk seals and how will the new national monument designation in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands affect them?

The establishment of the new national monument is key to saving the monk seals, as habitat loss is currently their chief threat, given that hunting is no longer allowed.

And I think that this combination of his public service in Washington — he advised, for example, presidents on developing [the] U.S. Park System, protecting U.S. national monuments.

The president's action leaves the national monument, created last year by his predecessor, Barack Obama, in legal limbo.