Washington, D.C.–In response to the Department of the Interior repealing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, the League of Conservation Voters released the following statement from the Conservation Program Director, America Fitzpatrick:
“The Conservation and Landscape Health Rule was critical to putting conservation on equal footing with oil and gas drilling on our public lands. By repealing it today, this administration has once again tipped the scales further in favor of their Big Oil buddies. With the rescinding of this rule, this administration has also deemed Tribal consultation as unnecessary to this decision and is ignoring years of community input, Indigenous knowledge, science, and interests of a broad range of stakeholders, in yet another attempt to sell-off and privatize our public lands. Instead of further handcuffing us to be more dependent on fossil fuels while handing over protected lands to the highest bidder, the administration should focus on prioritizing cleaner, more affordable and more reliable energy sources like clean energy.”
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