Interior Department kept energy discussion hidden in monument review: Report

The Trump Interior Department sought to keep its discussions about drilling, mining, and harvesting timber out of the public eye in building a case for rolling back national monument expansions under the previous administration, a mass of documents revealed on Monday.

The Washington Post obtained the documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, showing how top agency officials rejected proposals that favored keeping protections in place at national monuments, while redacting any mention of energy or natural resource development in official emails.