Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump

President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial...

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Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump

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FILE - In this June 22, 2016, record photo, the "House connected Fire" ruins are shown successful Mule Canyon, adjacent Blanding, Utah. President Joe Biden volition grow 2 sprawling nationalist monuments successful Utah, the politician said Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. President Donald Trump's medication successful 2017 importantly downsized Bears Ears National Monuments and Grand Staircase-Escalante successful confederate Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Posted at 8:52 PM, Oct 07, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-07 21:52:49-04

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden volition reconstruct 2 sprawling nationalist monuments successful Utah that person been astatine the halfway of a long-running nationalist lands dispute, and a abstracted marine conservation country successful New England that precocious has been utilized for commercialized fishing.

Environmental protections astatine each 3 monuments had been stripped by erstwhile President Donald Trump.

The White House announced the changes Thursday nighttime up of a ceremonial expected Friday.

It says Biden was “fulfilling a cardinal promise” by restoring Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments to their afloat size.

His program besides restores protections successful the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument successful the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Cape Cod.

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