monuments

The state Senate and Assembly passed resolutions urging Biden to act on the three new monuments.

He called global warming a hoax, pulled out of the Paris climate agreement, shrank national monuments and appointed Environmental Protection Agency administrators who helped polluters at the expense of public health.

Naidu and Lynch are accused of spraying orange powder paint on the iconic monuments on June 19th.

Trump downsized monuments in the West during his first term, and some want him to go further in his second — by abolishing the Antiquities Act altogether.

Since 2021, the Biden administration has put more than 42 million acres of land into conservation by creating and expanding national monuments.