Environmental advocates sued the Interior Department on Wednesday, alleging the Trump administration broke federal law by putting President Donald Trump’s portrait alongside former President George Washington’s on the redesigned 2026 America the Beautiful national park pass.
The Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to prevent Trump’s face from appearing on the upcoming park pass, asserting that the new design violates the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of 2004 and statutory requirements for image selection.
Under federal law, the pass, which provides entrance and standard amenity access at more than 2,000 national parks and federal recreation sites, is to feature an image selected through an annual public photography contest managed by the National Park Foundation.
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