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Department of Justice Gives Trump Go-Ahead to Eliminate National Monuments (insideclimatenews.org)

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The Trump administration has long touted the downsizing and elimination of national monuments, and a legal opinion from the Department of Justice argues that the president has the power to do that.

By Wyatt Myskow

The Department of Justice, in an opinion issued Tuesday, argues President Donald Trump has the power to review and eliminate national monuments to make way for development and resource extraction on public lands—walking back a previous opinion from the department that found only Congress can dismantle a national monument.

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