{"id":2981,"date":"2025-07-15T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/07\/sierra-club-make-america-beautiful-again-greenwashes-most-anti-environment-administration-in-history\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:00:19","slug":"sierra-club-make-america-beautiful-again-greenwashes-most-anti-environment-administration-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Club: \u201cMake America Beautiful Again\u201d Greenwashes Most Anti-Environment Administration in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Days after its Congressional allies sought to privatize vast swaths of public lands across the country, the Trump administration is launching a new commission charged with making those landscapes \u201cbeautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-beautiful-again-commission\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">brief executive order<\/a>, Donald Trump called for the formation of the \u201cMake America Beautiful Again\u201d commission. Chaired by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who also serves as the administration\u2019s energy czar, the commission is tasked with providing recommendations on conserving \u201cAmerica\u2019s national treasures and natural resources.\u201d A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/making-america-beautiful-again-by-improving-our-national-parks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">parallel executive order<\/a> directs the Department of the Interior to consider charging foreign visitors higher entrance fees to the National Park System.<\/p>\n<p>While conservatives have hailed the order as an environmental win, the Trump administration\u2019s record is one of the most pro-polluter in the country\u2019s history. On his first day back in office, Trump issued a flurry of executive orders opening up the Arctic to oil and gas drilling and prioritizing energy development on public lands. The administration has also fast-tracked drilling and mining projects on public lands, slashed royalty rates oil and gas companies must pay for drilling on public lands, and gutted bedrock environmental laws like the National Environmental Policy Act.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In response, Dan Ritzman, Director of Conservation at Sierra Club, released the following statement:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis country has some of the most majestic and treasured public lands in the world. If we hope to pass that unparalleled heritage onto the next generation, those landscapes need stewardship and resources. Donald Trump is offering anything but. From day one, the Trump administration has slashed budgets at conservation agencies, fired thousands of essential conservation staff, gutted bedrock environmental laws, and given free rein to billionaires and corporations to pollute our public lands. \u2018Make America Beautiful Again\u2019 is the tiniest fig leaf on the most anti-environment administration in our country\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after its Congressional allies sought to privatize vast swaths of public lands across the country, the Trump administration is launching a new commission charged with making those landscapes \u201cbeautiful.\u201d In a brief executive order, Donald Trump called for the formation of the \u201cMake America Beautiful Again\u201d commission. Chaired by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}