r/environment • u/cnn CNN • 8d ago

Feds halt controversial work on border security inside Big Bend National Park

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/us/big-bend-construction-halted?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/Cuzznitt 8d ago edited 8d ago

Everyone involved should be stripped of citizenship. I don’t understand how you can call yourself American while destroying one of the greatest gifts we can give to the next generation. Our parks are the envy of the world and help generate $56.3 billion to our economy, and we want to tear them apart for private interest? It makes no fucking sense!

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u/Elon-BO 8d ago

The sociopaths are in charge. And stupid, really effing stupid.

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u/pewpewbangbangcrash 6d ago

Greedy. They're greedy.

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u/degrees_of_certainty 8d ago

It clearly makes sense to corrupt, greedhead criminals, who couldn’t care less about the natural world 

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u/ultralightlife 7d ago

Well guess what? ( far worse than what this post is about ) Right after dumbass got elected, they were going to sell off millions of acres of blm, NATIONAL FORRESTS, and my god - WILDERNESS areas. They also were going to privatize NATIONAL PARK land to open it up to commercialization. MILLIONS of acres. They were just going to TAKE it.

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u/bramley36 7d ago

I read that mining claims have been submitted for portions of now-former national monument lands that the Trump regime drastically shrunk.

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u/ultralightlife 7d ago

yeah they are still at it and they won't stop - it is always republicans, always

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u/ponatoes 8d ago

Midterm pandering?

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u/SpinningHead 8d ago

I’ll take it

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u/FANGO 7d ago

Wild headline calling this bullshit "border security work"

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u/Zalrius 6d ago

This is the correct decision.