Article 34RKR Trump’s pro-coal agenda is a blow for clean air efforts at Texas' Big Bend park

Trump’s pro-coal agenda is a blow for clean air efforts at Texas' Big Bend park

by
Tom Dart
from Environment | The Guardian on (#34RKR)

For decades the national park's stunning vistas have been compromised by poor air quality, and prospects of improvement were derailed by Trump Tuesday

Big Bend national park is Texas at its most cinematic, with soaring, jagged forest peaks looming over vast desert lowlands, at once haughty and humble, prickly and pretty. It is also among the most remote places in the state.

Even from Alpine, the town of 6,000 that is the main gateway to the park, it is more than an hour's drive to one of the entrances.

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