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Trump Rollback of Sage Grouse Protection to Open Millions of Acres to Drilling

HeadlineDec 07, 2018

This comes as the Trump administration moved to roll back an Obama-era conservation plan to protect a bird known as the sage grouse, which is close to endangered status. The rollback could open some 9 million acres of land in Western states to new oil and gas drilling.

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