TR's Library vs. Today's Energy Policy | Salt Lake City News

Salt Lake City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 6, 2026 · 1m

Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation legacy gets a high-tech, eco-friendly upgrade with his new presidential library in North Dakota — a $450 million, zero-energy, zero-waste marvel built to honor his environmental vision. But here’s the twist: the very administration promoting it, led by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, is simultaneously rolling back conservation protections and pushing for more drilling and mining on public lands. Burgum argues that resource development and conservation can coexist — citing Roosevelt’s own “multiple use” philosophy — while the library’s cutting-edge green…