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NEWS: US Senate passes Great American Outdoors Act Public Lands Bill

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 UKC/UKH News 19 Jun 2020

The US Senate has this week approved a major new bill concerning land conservation - The Great American Outdoors Act - which the New York Times has described as 'a rare bipartisan win propelled by the election-year interests of endangered Republicans.' In what was a long-awaited action by environmental campaigners, a 73 to 25 vote has guaranteed billions of dollars for National Park Service restoration and the protection of recreational land.



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 Mark Stevenson 19 Jun 2020
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Any chance we could convince the PM to do something similar and reverse a decade of under-funding of UK National Parks under the premise of post Covid-19 job creation and his supposed "levelling up" agenda? 

 Bubba Wayne 24 Jun 2020
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Do you mean, can Boris under fund the national park system for years and then throw a few pence at them to get himself a few kudos ?  All the while undoing environmental protections and opening up public lands to hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas ? We can only hope. 

 Offwidth 24 Jun 2020
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All well and good until Trump gets in a budget argument and forces the parks to close again.


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