The Department of Justice is renaming its environment division.
In a Sunday op-ed, the interim leader of the division announced that DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division will now be known as the Energy and Natural Resources Division, reflecting his team’s commitment to defending President Donald Trump’s mission to unleash American fossil fuel production.
“Energy security is national security,” wrote Adam Gustafson, principal deputy assistant attorney general of the division, in the Wall Street Journal. “Iran’s recent stranglehold on the global oil market shows that domestic energy production is critical to preserving our way of life and securing our prosperity. Thanks to President Trump, the U.S. is producing more of its own energy than ever.”
It’s not the first time the division’s name has changed. The division was established in 1909 as the Public Lands Division and changed to the Lands Division in 1933, Land and Natural Resources Division in 1965 and Environment and Natural Resources Division in 1990.
