A post on its blog claims that the boundaries of Bears Ears were deliberately redrawn to extract significant coal, oil and uranium resources, despite numerous assurances from politicians that there were no significant natural resources in the area that was excluded from protection by the Trump Administration’s changes. The post said that Freedom of Information Act requests revealed that there are 11.4 billion tons of coal in the Kaiparowits plateau, one of the biggest coal fields in the U.S., some 90,000 acres that have attracted interest from the petroleum industry and an estimated 500,000 tons of uranium that are now ... Log in to view full article.