Randi Spivak

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed official opposition today to the Trump administration’s move to scrap the Public Lands Rule. Trump’s move would continue to prioritize extraction over public lands conservation. The 2024 rule was designed to put conservation, ecosystem restoration and community access to public lands on equal footing with extractive uses like mining, drilling and grazing. “Trump’s absurd claim that conservation isn’t a valid use of public lands would be laughable if it didn’t threaten America with such disastrous consequences,” said Randi Spivak, public land policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Public Lands Rule was designed to bring some balance to our shared heritage after decades of the lands being trashed by mining, drilling and exploitation. Trump’s move to repeal the rule will harm our wildlife, pollute our water, and sacrifice plain old public enjoyment of beautiful wild places on the altar of corporate profit.”