News Times: Environmental conservationists aren't giving up on trying to persuade the White House to designate an area in the Gulf of Maine as a national monument. In the final months of President Barack Obama's term, they're hoping he'll protect an underwater mountain and offshore ecosystem in the Gulf of Maine known as Cashes Ledge. They also want him to protect a chain of undersea formations about 150 miles off the coast of Massachusetts known as the New England Coral Canyons and Seamounts. The White House...