House Republicans Stonewall Opposition To Their Radically Anti-Public Lands Budget Bill

Congressman Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) called the GOP proposal “an environmental wrecking ball” and said Americans “will see this as the betrayal that it is.”

Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), the chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, during a markup hearing Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: House Committee on Natural Resources, Flickr.

House Republicans appeared poised Tuesday to advance an unprecedented dismantling of public land protections that would vastly increase energy and t…