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Trump Sharply Cuts the Size of Two National Monuments in Utah

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Maxine Joselow
Native American tribes and environmental groups are expected to challenge the move to shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.

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A hiker in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
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Interior Department Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Maxine Joselow
A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.

© Paul Ratje for The New York Times

One proposal would lower the cost of the bonds that fossil fuel companies must pay the Interior Department before they start drilling or mining on public lands.
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Renewable Groups Ask Courts to End Pentagon’s ‘Total Halt’ of Wind Power

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Brad Plumer
More than 100 planned wind farms in 21 states are now stalled indefinitely as the Pentagon delays military reviews once seen as routine.

© Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times

The freeze affects 41 wind projects in Texas, which produces more wind power than any other state in the U.S., as well as projects in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
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ANWR Oil Draws Few Bids, Despite Trump’s Push for ‘Liquid Gold’

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Lisa Friedman
An auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with just 10 percent of the available land claimed for oil development.

© Christopher Miller for The New York Times

Caribou on the tundra of the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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