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

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 ...

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 ...

Community advocates and elected officials will soon decide on a design for the new monument honoring Brooklyn legend Shirley Chisholm. The monument honoring the politician, educator and author will ...

The Trump administration announced on Friday that the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which encompasses over 5,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean 130 miles off the coast ...

A rendering of Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous’s monument to Shirley Chisholm in Prospect Park. Rendering by Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous It’s official: The first She Built NYC ...

PORTLAND, 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 Ocean. The group ...