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New order to allow drilling at monuments

The move comes as part of Trump's effort to reverse a slew of environmental protections

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Valerie Volcovici | Reuters
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to identify national monuments that can be rescinded or resized — part of a broader push to open up more federal lands to drilling, mining and other development.
 
The move comes as part of Trump’s effort to reverse a slew of environmental protections ushered in by former President Barack Obama that he said were hobbling economic growth — an agenda that is cheering industry but enraging conservationists.
 
Trump signed the order at the Interior Department in Washington, saying that his predecessors’ use of the 1906 Antiquities Act to