03-03-2018 01:08 via deseretnews.com

Hatch: 'Greedy energy tycoons' not behind Bears Ears reduction

SALT LAKE CITY — A New York Times story Friday details how "oil was central" in the Trump administration's decision to shrink the Bears Ears National Monument last December, but Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said the paper missed the mark.The paper sued and obtained internal Interior Department emails — 20,000 pages — that in part detail correspondence over the Bears Ears Monument designation in 2016 and a subsequent review by the Trump administration.Those documents, about 4,500 a
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