Greens sue Trump for national monument documents

A coalition of environmental groups is suing the Trump administration to try to obtain Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendations for which national monuments to shrink. The greens, led by Earthjustice, accuse the Interior Department, its Bureau of Land Management and the White House Council on Environmental Quality of breaking the law by missing a key deadline to respond to their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the recommendations. Zinke sent Trump the recommendations in August. But thus far, the administration has declined to release Zinke’s document or otherwise say what is in it, leading to the groups' FOIA requests. The environmental groups oppose any efforts to eliminate or shrink national monuments...more