01/17/2025
Terrible/ massively misguided!
Today, Rep Celeste Maloy (R-UT) introduced legislation (the Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act) in the House of Representatives that, if passed, would effectively repeal the 1906 Antiquities Act by requiring Congress to approve the establishment or extension of a National Monument.
For more than 115 years the Act has been used by Presidents of both parties to establish national monuments and protect objects of particular cultural, paleontological, and ecological significance. See quote below from SUWA DC Director, Travis Hammill.
