This is a Wall Street Journal article about President Fucktard Trump. "In Utah, Fossils Versus Fossil Fuels. Paleontologists sue to stop Trump’s reduction of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument."

A nearly complete Teratophoneus skeleton was airlifted out of the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah last year. Paleontologists fear that opening up such areas to drilling threatens fossils that date to the extinction of dinosaurs. Teratophoneus is a tyrannosaur, an older cousin of the famous T. rex.

Trump is not interested in scientific progress. He just gets in the way. Most Republicans are OK with this stupidity. For example these comments:

"As to solving the mystery of why the dinosaurs became extinct.......who cares?" I asked the retard "Don't you have any curiosity at all?"

Another anti-science comment: "Now we are going to have protection for fossils of already dead and extinct animals? Nuts!" My reply: "Fossils help paleontologists understand the history of life. Scientific progress is a good thing."

Another Republican fucktard comment: "The parks and monuments are supposed to be left intact, why should scientists be allowed to dig ugly holes in our monuments?" My reply: "The idea is scientists can learn more about the history of life from fossils. Scientific progress is a good thing."

Another idiot wrote about fossils: "no room to display them". I wrote "Fossils are not just for display. They help paleontologists better understand the history of life. Scientific progress is a good thing."

There were numerous other anti-science comments even more ridiculous than these examples. I'm never going to vote for Republicans again because their stupidity is overwhelming.

This is the entire article which was well done:

In Utah, Fossils Versus Fossil Fuels. Paleontologists sue to stop Trump’s reduction of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

By Jim Carlton Feb. 16, 2018 1:50 p.m. ET 44 COMMENTS

Beneath a remote Utah plateau are fossils that scientists say could help unlock the mystery of dinosaur extinction. Buried in the same place are minerals, oil and gas that state and federal officials say could help boost the local economy.

Paleontologists worried that the search for fossil fuels could disturb the fossils have joined a broad coalition in filing a lawsuit against the federal government seeking to reinstate national monument designation—protections on the land repealed by the Trump administration.

The White House last year reduced the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by about half. This month President Trump reopened the area to drilling for oil, gas and minerals.

Scientists worry the roads, pipelines and earth disturbances that come from extraction of coal or other minerals could disrupt paleontological sites containing one of the world’s great collection of dinosaur and early mammal remains.

The suit argues that the president doesn’t have the authority to reduce national monuments, only to create them under the Antiquities Act of 1906. A federal judge has yet to rule on a motion for summary judgment by the plaintiffs, which is a request for a ruling outright in favor of their case without a trial.

The administration argues presidents do have that authority, and have used it in the past.

Federal officials said any mineral development would be done responsibly without harming the dinosaur sites.

“Most of the areas that are known to have the highest concentration of paleontological resources are still contained within the monument boundaries,” Interior Department spokeswoman Heather Swift said.

Scientists say some sites are now outside the boundaries, including one area that records the extinction event and contains fossils of reptiles and extinct shellfish.

State and federal officials who pushed for the monument’s reduction said dinosaur fossils will remain protected under statutes including the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act, which authorizes civil and criminal penalties for harm or theft of prehistoric resources such as dinosaur bones.

Michael Noel, a Utah state representative and former employee of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, said dinosaur digs won’t be damaged by mining because of “layers of protections” including requirements for an environmental impact analysis before work can be done in the area.

But Joe Sertich, curator of dinosaurs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who studies the fossils at the site said “mining would limit access” to some dig sites “and roads and pipelines would open up the area to vandalism and theft of resources.”

Backers of Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument in the 1950s successfully fought to kill dams proposed to be built in the middle of the sanctuary, and paleontologists have opposed expansion of oil and gas fields in areas of Montana rich with dinosaur remains.

So far, no companies have applied for leases to drill in the former monument area in Utah, said Leland Pollock, chairman of the local Garfield County Commission. There is already abundant coal mining in the state, he said, and many companies are reluctant to go through a process that could take years and eventually be overturned by a Democratic administration.

The Grand Staircase area is considered especially important because it contains some of the world’s most extensive artifacts from a period right before the dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago.

President Bill Clinton declared the area a national monument in 1996, partly in response to proposed coal-mining activity in an area that might have threatened dinosaur deposits.

The monument designation opened new funding for research, and it also put under a protective net one of the more unique natural features in the world: layers of sediment and rock that show a continuous geologic record of an ancient inland sea draining off the continent and the animals that lived there then, researchers say.

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of flowering plants, birds, snakes, lizards and mammals all living with dinosaurs, even though they were thought to have evolved later, said P. David Polly, president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Write to Jim Carlton at jim.carlton@wsj.com