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Friday, November 1, 2013

Interior chief Sally Jewell says Obama will go around Congress on national monuments

By ZACK COLMAN | OCTOBER 31, 2013
Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell vowed that President Obama would use executive authority to create more national monuments to protect lands if Congress doesn't pass legislation to do so.  "If Congress doesn't step up to act," Jewell said during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, "then the president will take action."
Obama has used the more than century-old Antiquities Act to establish national monuments nine times, with six coming in the last year. The administration has said it would use the law only if local communities can demonstrate there is significant support for such action.  Those moves have invited backlash from House Republicans, contending those decisions are best left to Congress.
Congress hasn't approved a new national monument or park since 2010, with Republicans charging that the White House is keeping too much federal land off limits to oil and gas development.  Republicans say the shale energy boom could be replicated on federal lands, enhancing energy security and bringing more revenue to the Treasury……To Read More…..

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