The Trump administration is scrapping a collaborative sage grouse protection plan to expand oil and gas drilling
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December 13, 2018
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(THE CONVERSATION) The Trump administration has released plans to open up nine million acres of sage grouse habitat in six western states to oil and gas drilling. This initiative dramatically cuts back an elaborate plan developed under the Obama administration to steer energy development away from sage grouse habitat. Predictably, environmentalists oppose it and the energy industry supports it.
Controversies over protecting sage grouse are part of a continuing struggle over managem...
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