Apr 15, 2019 - Energy & Climate

Elizabeth Warren's public lands proposal would reverse Trump policies

Marisa Fernandez

Elizabeth Warren picketing in Massachusetts. Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

2020 hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed a broad plan on Monday to protect America's public lands, another addition to her list of proposed policies to set herself apart from a crowded Democratic field.

The big picture: Warren's proposal would reverse some of the Trump administration's most visible energy policies, including an executive order on her first day in office that would end drilling offshore and on public lands. It would also require that 10% of U.S. electricity generation must come from renewable sources located offshore or on public lands.

"We must not allow corporations to pillage our public lands and leave taxpayers to clean up the mess. All of us — local communities and tribes, hunters and anglers, ranchers and weekend backpackers — must work together to manage and protect our shared heritage."

— From Warren's Medium post on the proposal

The proposal also includes:

Free entrance to national parks.
Unlocking 50% of currently inaccessible federally owned land for public use.
"A 21st century Civilian Conservation Corps" with 10,000 young people, funded by an increased AmeriCorps budget.
Using the Antiquities Act, an early 20th century law, to restore protections for national monuments that had been opened up to development by the Trump administration.
Incorporating state, local and tribal stakeholders for public land management.

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