Affected parks would include Grand Tetons, Everglades, and the Flight 93 Memorial Arizona Republican Representative Paul Gosar introduced a resolution in Congress last night that would weaken regulations limiting oil and natural gas drilling within national parks.
The move was noted in a release by the self-billed ?independent, nonpartisan? National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) which breaks it down like this: The resolution, named H.J. Res. 46, would eliminate the 9B regulations passed by the Obama administration in November 2016 to oversee drilling on federal land. The so-called ?split-estate? situation involves land acquired by the federal government for national parks where private owners maintain their rights to potentially lucrative minerals underground. Rep. Gosar said in a statement that his resolution would eliminate regulations that he believes ?jeopardize significant investments made by job creators, states and private companies.? He went on to note that ?the federal government has no right to impose job-killing regulations for private and state-owned oil and natural gas wells not owned by the federal government, especially when these wells are already subject to existing environmental regulations.?
Some key split-estate parks include Everglades National Park in Florida, the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania, and the Grand Canyon National Recreation Area.
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