Energy & Environment
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Energy & Environment
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Ruling allows NPS to remove signs and exhibits |
A federal appeals court stayed a lower court’s order requiring the National Park Service (NPS) to restore signs and exhibits that were removed by the Trump administration.
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The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday halted the ruling, which would have restored park materials that the administration says were purged as part of the administration’s effort to get rid of materials that “disparage” Americans.
The judges determined that the Trump administration “made a strong showing that the harms that the district court relied on” to order the restoration of the materials did not meet the standards for an injunction.
Judges David Barron, Gustavo Gelpí and Julie Rikelman also found that the groups suing the government “cannot show that a stay of the district court’s order … would cause them substantial injury.”
Barron was appointed by former President Obama, while Gelpí and Rikelman are appointees of former President Biden.
The Trump administration last year directed NPS units to review all public-facing content for messaging that disparages Americans or that “emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance, or grandeur” of natural features.
The administration and its supporters have described the effort as a matter of national pride. Critics call it an effort to whitewash history and undermine science on topics such as climate change that the administration finds unfavorable.
Read more at TheHill.com.
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