Whatever the reason, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke downplayed the threat President Donald Trump’s executive order poses to at least two dozen national monuments. The order, signed Wednesday, tasks the Interior Department with reviewing monument designations made under the Antiquities Act of 1906. “Let’s be clear,” Zinke said Wednesday. “This executive order does not remove any monuments. And this executive order does not weaken any environmental protections on any public lands.

Source: Huffington Post April 27, 2017 02:03 UTC