President Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality has said they won’t create a marine national monument in the Cashes Ledge portion of the Gulf of Maine. The announcement revives a months-old debate ...

A stretch of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod more than four times the size of Rhode Island has become the first U.S. marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean. President Barack Obama formally ...

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We, Alaskan Indigenous peoples who have lived along the Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska since time immemorial, respectfully ask President Joseph Biden to designate a U.S. Arctic Ocean marine national ...

Nearly 5,000 square miles of ocean off Cape Cod will be designated a marine national monument on Thursday, making it the first of its kind in the Atlantic. President Barack Obama will be making the ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge tossed a lawsuit Friday from a group of fishing associations that challenged the creation of an underwater monument in the Atlantic Ocean. The fishing groups ...

The Trump administration is working to open some of America’s protected natural treasures to industrial fishing and oil ...

PORTLAND, MainePORTLAND, Maine — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that it will not consider a fishing group’s attempt to challenge the creation of a large federally protected area in the Atlantic ...