SCOOP: Draft Strategic Plan for Trump's Interior Department Would Boost Extractive Industries, Cut Protections

The internal document calls for opening new lands to oil and gas drilling, coal mining and other uses. It does not mention climate change once.

The nation’s largest land management agency is gearing up to squeeze revenue from the federal estate, opening up new lands to drilling and other extractive development while reducing federal land holdings and slashing environmental regulations, with its top goal being to “restore American prosperity,” according to a draft strategic plan that Public Doma…