In a sweeping series of executive orders signed immediately after his inauguration on Wednesday, President Biden began undoing much of the harm the Trump administration tried carry out on our country's clean air and water, wild places, wild animals, natural heritage, and public lands
Tribune Editorial: Spencer Coxâs Roadmap would put rural Utah in the ditch
Too much of the governorâs plan is stuck in the extractive economy.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at a news conference in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021.
By The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board
  | Jan. 22, 2021, 10:00 p.m.
But, where a roadmap is supposed to show the path forward, part of the new Utah governorâs document is fixated on the rear-view mirror. And looking backward instead of forward is a good way to wind up in the ditch.
Climate change is the greatest threat to our civilization. Markets are well along in their realization that fossil fuels are a thing of the past and thus a poor investment. It isnât going to happen overnight. But it is going to happen. Utahâs economic future depends on sustainable and low-impact forms of development, much of it centered on tourism and care for the public lands that are our crown j
President Joe Biden signed more than a dozen executive actions on his first day in office, some of which reverse decisions made by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
Several executive actions will make changes to the U.S. response to Covid-19 and try to ease some of the financial strain on Americans resulting from the pandemic. Other executive actions directly target and undo Trump’s actions on the environment, immigration, the U.S. census, and regulatory changes.
Biden signed three executive orders in the presence of reporters — implementing a mask mandate on federal property, increasing support for underserved communities and rejoining the Paris climate accord
Joe Biden used his inaugural address this week to call for a new era of national unity, promising to put his “whole soul” into bringing the country together after the vitriol, violence, and collective trauma of the Trump years. And how are Republicans responding? Largely by trying to club the president with his own words, accusing him of being “divisive” every time he opens his mouth or signs a sheet of paper.
The effort to, as
Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer put it, weaponize Biden’s rhetoric against him is proceeding down two parallel tracks. Some conservatives have worked themselves into a righteous huff by accusing the president of demonizing them during his speech, in which he said the country faced “a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat” and urged Americans to “reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.”
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Trump reduced the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by almost 50% and the size of Bears Ears National Monument by 85% in 2017 at the behest of Utah officials like former Sen. Orrin Hatch.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies to review a long list of changes former President Donald Trump made to environmental regulations and the management of public lands, as well as his reduction of national monuments.
“Everything from [the] spotted owl habitat, to drilling in the arctic, to the destruction at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, all of that is going to be looked at here in short order,” said Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities.