The Attorney General of Californiasent an 11 - Sir Frederick Handley Page letterto the Interior Department , consecrate to fight anApril executive director orderfrom Trump that could potentially resize or even revoke the protect position of six different monuments in the state . The executive order shed light on Secretary of the Interior , Ryan Zinke , to review 26 internal monuments across the country , potentially opening them up to economic body process such as drilling .
Per theLos Angeles Times , the California monuments potentially impacted by the order , all designated by former President Obama and Clinton , are :
The San Gabriel Mountains repository , which organize a backcloth to Los Angeles .
The Mojave Trails and Sand to Snow monuments in the Southern California desert .
The Giant Sequoia monument in the southerly Sierra Nevada .
The Carrizo Plain monument on the southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley .
The Berryessa Snow Mountain in Northern California .
In anaccompanying Medium post , Attorney General Xavier Becerra write that he is “ dictated to take any and all legal action necessary to protect the American heritage we respect and cherish in our monument lands . ”
Since Trump call in the US from the Paris Agreement — an external alinement toreduce global carbon emissions — the commonwealth of California has been leading the charge against Trump ’s rapid - blast annulment of environmental regulations . California Governor Jerry Brown was among the first to connect the fusion of governor , mayors and university presidentsbanding together to negotiatewith the UN and stay in the Paris Agreement . A staggering40 percent of all solar energy jobsare in the state and Governor Brown has suppose he wants to set an even more stringent end for reducing carbon emissions than was set under the Paris Agreement .
No effectual action at law has been announced yet , but California is certainly not afraid to file suit against the federal governance . Just last month , Attorney General Becerrasued the Interior Departmentregarding its slow execution of the Valuation Rule , which reimburse Californian taxpayers with royal line funds from company that drill on Union farming . intelligibly , California is fearless to crowd back on Trump ’s unpopular and , economically and environmentally unsupported , deregulation zeal .
[ The Los Angeles Times ]
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