Jessica Kutz

In a significant departure from the way the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been allocated in the past, states and municipalities will now be required to sign off on federal land transfers, which could make it difficult for agencies like the National Park Service or Bureau of Land Management to acquire land from private parties.

Last January, 50 years after President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act into law, the Trump administration announced its plans to issue new regulations to severely curtail the scope and breadth of the law.