{"id":2189,"date":"2020-12-14T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139261"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:33:22","slug":"watchdog-calls-on-president-elect-biden-to-immediately-reverse-the-trump-administrations-damage-to-public-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/14\/watchdog-calls-on-president-elect-biden-to-immediately-reverse-the-trump-administrations-damage-to-public-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Calls on President-Elect Biden to Immediately Reverse the Trump Administration\u2019s Damage to Public Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Accountable.US is urging the Biden administration to start reversing the Trump administration\u2019s corrupt decisions to hand over protected public lands to special interests immediately after President-elect Biden is sworn in on January 20.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cAs long as the reduction of protections for these places is allowed to stand, Trump-allied special interests will benefit at the expense of local communities \u2014 Native American tribes most all,\u201d said Chris Saeger, spokesman for Accountable.US. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s administration put the profits of the extractive industry ahead of protecting sacred lands that community members demand to protect. Starting on day one, the Biden administration must put an end to these giveaways and start to fix the damage of the last four years, beginning with restoring protective boundaries to places like Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments.\u201d <\/div>\n<div>Accountable.US is encouraging the Biden administration to restore these critical protections for our land and waters:<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/14\/watchdog-calls-on-president-elect-biden-to-immediately-reverse-the-trump-administrations-damage-to-public-lands\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Accountable.US is urging the Biden administration to start reversing the Trump administration\u2019s corrupt decisions to hand over protected public lands to special interests immediately after President-elect\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}