In the USA, President Trump announces that he is terminating 3 million acres of national monuments in southern Utah, opening them up to drilling, mining, and industrial development. These are the largest cuts to public lands in US history. It is not known whether in this case money changed hands and if so, how much. Grand Staircase-Escalante (created under the Antiquities Act by President Bill Clinton in 1996) and Bears Ears (created under the Antiquities Act by President Barack Obama in 2016) are home to significant dinosaur fossils and sacred Native American sites. Trump had taken similar actions during his first term, but those were reversed by President Joe Biden.
In general, Trump administration officials and congressional Republicans have sought to expand drilling, mining and logging on public lands, while removing protections for imperiled species and rolling back rules for conservation.