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Trump Nixing Conservation Rule in Favor of Drilling and Mining on Federal Lands
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA
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At an all-hands meeting of Interior Department employees on April 9, Secretary Doug Burgum stressed that managing and protecting federal public lands “must be held in balance.”
“It says in the mission statement the job of Interior is to ‘manage and protect,’” he said. “It doesn’t just say ‘protect,’ it says ‘manage and protect.’”
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