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Interior Dept. agency changes website from family visiting park to a giant pile of coal

Mashable: Even the smallest of symbolic details can't escape the changes of life in Trump's America. The government agency responsible for overseeing a staggering 258 million acres of land, including ecologically vital conservation areas, has changed the image on its homepage from a scenic park vista to a massive, tall pile of coal.

The website change, which happened in the past 24 hours, is in keeping with the Trump administration's push to drill for oil, natural gas, and minerals on public lands.

The new picture at the top of the site appears to be from Peabody Energy, via Wikimedia Commons. This page identifies it as "an 80 foot coal seam at the North Antelope Rochelle open cut coal mine," and was taken in 2004.

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