If Trump wins the election, US parks and wildlife will face a new age of mining

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Oil and gas production under Biden has reached record highs and his administration approved the huge Willow project in Alaska, but Trump is seen as a figure who would impose few if any limits on the industry.
53% : He was also recently appointed to the state air pollution control board in Virginia, and one of the sources speculated that he could be tapped for a top position at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the White House Council on Environmental Quality in a future Trump administration.
53% : At another fundraiser organized by the oil company Continental Resources' Harold Hamm and other industry executives, Trump said he would open more federal land to drilling on and offshore, and referred to the Arctic national wildlife refuge - a 19m-acre (7.7m-hectare) preserve on Alaska's north slope - as the "biggest oil farm".
52% : "We will drill, baby, drill," Trump said in July as he officially accepted the Republican nomination at the party's national convention in Milwaukee.
51% : "Trump has already made clear his desire to court the oil and gas industry.
49% : Indeed, early plans suggest that Trump aims to radically remake the Department of the Interior, which oversees more than 500m acres (200m hectares) of public lands, manages the country's national parks and wildlife refuges, and is responsible for protecting endangered species.
47% : Whereas Joe Biden made safeguarding public lands and the transition to green energy a centerpiece of his time in office, Trump and his allies would reverse many of Biden's policies, remake the civil service and implement a new agenda focused on slashing regulations, weakening environmental protections, and expanding oil and gas development across the American west.
45% : Central to this project is the creation of a new category of federal employment, known as Schedule F, that would allow Trump to fire thousands of civil servants involved in policymaking and replace them with allies - a scheme Trump implemented during the final months of his first term but which the Biden administration quickly repealed.
42% : But if Trump is granted the power to fire thousands of civil servants, he would have little trouble pushing through his agenda in a second term.
41% : Though Trump has recently tried to distance his campaign from the Heritage Foundation's work, many of the Project 2025 proposals align with his own positions, especially when it comes to resource extraction.
41% : The nearly 120-year-old law may not survive another four years of Trump.
40% : Though major industry players had expressed little interest in drilling in this corner of Alaska, Trump and his allies prioritized opening it up to exploration and development.
33% : The document includes a chapter on the interior department written by William Perry Pendley, who served as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management under Trump and was a protege of James Watt, the controversial interior secretary during the early years of the Reagan administration.
31% : Trump's embrace of fossil fuels has also been coupled with - and in many ways depends on - a rejection of climate science.
28% : What exactly do Jorjani and other Trump supporters hope to do if Trump retakes the White House?
21% : In April, according to the Washington Post, Trump met with oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago resort and promised to reverse many of Biden's environmental policies in exchange for $1bn in campaign donations.
20% : Jorjani did not respond to requests for comment, including questions about his relationship with the Trump campaign and his potential roles if Trump retakes the White House.

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