Past Republican governor of North Dakota testified during his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Doug Burgum, Trump’s candidate for Interior director, told lawmakers he would recover responsible control to America’s public lands while unleashing the nation’s electricity possible.
In his opening statement, Burgum said,” The American citizens have evidently placed their trust in President Trump to obtain energy dominance. ” By strength dominance, that’s the basis of American prosperity, pricing for American families, and unsurpassed national safety”.
” Now, America produces electricity cleaner, smarter, and safer than anywhere in the world”, Burgum added. ” When power output is restricted in America, it doesn’t lower demand. It simply shifts production to nations like Russia and Iran, whose authoritarian leaders don’t care about the environment and instead use their profits from electricity revenue to finance conflicts between us and our supporters.
Senate members also pressed Trump’s choice for Interior secretary about the various people lands issues that have irritated Republicans under the incoming administration for years, even though Burgum emphasized his devotion to reclaiming power dominance as” America’s great stay.”
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, the Republican chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, presided over the reading and opened the question time by praising Democratic leaders for breaking the Antiquities Act to create quasi-national gardens without the approval of Congress.
Theodore Roosevelt first used the Antiquities Act to defend Devil’s Tower in Wyoming when it was passed in 1906. The site is approximately 1,300 acres in accordance with the government’s requirement to protect the” smallest area compatible” with proper treatment. But, President Biden expanded some additional national monuments while establishing them without the approval of Congress through the Antiquities Act, with the protections extending across entire national parks.
” These have become things of a political sport,” Lee said, referencing the monument designations of gigantic places at Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Joe Biden’s reinstating their Obama-era restrictions. The statues are more than three million hectares tall than the local parks at Zion and Bryce Canyon, which are both larger.
The size of two Registrant in my state have been moved into this extremely limited usage classification, Lee said. The point is not that the state has wonderful things to shield, but the line was drawn therefore far, and the statue was expanded in part because local officials weren’t asked.
Designating people lands as monuments , removes , the multiple-use mission that allows citizens to leverage and more easily recreate on public house.
Lee requested Burgum to work with lawmakers to reexamine the limitations of the landmarks and travel to Utah to “meet with those whose voices the Biden administration ignored.”
Burgum agreed with Lee’s analysis of the government’s abuse.
” It states quite plainly that it’s the’ smallest conceivable area’ to defend those objects,” Burgum said”. Its initial intention was really to safeguard as it says,’ artifacts,’ areas like, I may say, Indiana Jones-type historical protections.”
A pair of northern GOP House members introduced the” Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act,” which would grant the power to formally create national monuments to Congress rather than the president, while Burgum testified in the quest for Senate confirmation as the nation’s public land key. The bill’s sponsors, Reps. Celeste Maloy of Utah and Mark Amodei of Nevada, both come from states where two-thirds or more of land is owned by the federal government.
According to a press release from Maloy,” Congress trusted presidents with a narrow authority to declare national monuments in the Antiquities Act.” Sadly, Presidents continue to abuse that enticing authority without proper Congressional oversight to designate millions of acres of land in Utah and throughout the West.
Early in the hearing, Burgum was also asked by Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, whether the new administration would objectively reexamine the Biden administration’s recent ruling on grizzly bears. Montana and Wyoming filed petitions last week to delist the bears in each state as endangered despite exceeding their recovery goals. The ruling, Daines said”, punishes Montana’s successful grizzly bear recovery efforts.”
We should be congratulating the recovery, but instead we are now having to make sacrifices to adjust to living with the bear, according to Daines, with its predation losses by livestock producers as well as human safety. Sadly, many Montanans have been killed, badly mauled by grizzly bears, so the people back home take this very, very seriously.”
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” The Service keeps moving these goalposts for delisting and returning these bears to state management,” Daines continued. Would you reaffirm your commitment to working with me to remove these two populations if the data revealed that they are recovering?
Burgum said he agreed with the senator’s assessment.
We should be praising species that have been removed from the endangered species list rather than trying to keep them on that list, according to Burgum.
