Items Tagged with 'Antiquities Act'

Agricultural groups want the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on whether the executive branch can supersede land use laws through the growing use of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish huge acre tracts of national monuments.

President Joe Biden has signed proclamations to expand the perimeters of several national monuments, a move that will alter the management of millions of acres of western lands.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2017 – The House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday cleared a measure to curb the use of the Antiquities Act to designate national monuments on a vote that fell along party lines.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2017 - Praise and criticism greeted a report delivered to the White House yesterday recommending changes to the boundaries of a “handful” of national monuments.