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Obamas national monument designations total 550 million acres
2017-02-08 10:55:18| Beef
Urge Congress to pass the Improved National Monument Designation Process Act to curtail abuse of the Antiquities Act.
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Obama quadruples size of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument off coast of Hawaii
2016-09-02 04:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Biz Journals: The White House says President Barack Obama on Friday quadrupled the size of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating a marine-protected area thats twice the size of Texas but going against the wishes of at least part of Hawaiis fishing and restaurant industries. The Obama administration also announced that the president will travel to Hawaii next week. On Wednesday evening, he will speak at the Pacific Island Conference of Leaders and the IUCN World Conservation...
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Obama links Hawaii marine monument expansion to climate change efforts
2016-09-01 20:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pacific Business News: President Barack Obama announced the expansion of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Honolulu Wednesday evening using an old Hawaiian proverb that loosely translates to unite to move forward, linking the effort to quadruple the amount of protected waters in Hawaii to climate change. It seems simple enough, but the natives used it as a reminder that if you want to row a canoe, every oar has to be moving in unison, otherwise, youll go in circles, he said. The pace slows, you drift,...
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Poliquin seeks White House meeting over federal monument
2016-02-26 05:43:44| Waste Management - Topix.net
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin seeks to meet with White House officials to offset efforts by the family of entrepreneur Roxanne Quimby to turn land east of Baxter State Park into a federal monument, he said Thursday. "I am requesting this meeting because I fear that the voices of the local residents - my constituents - are not being heard at the White House," Poliquin states in a two-page letter dated Thursday to Christy Goldfuss, managing director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality .
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One Man's Fight to Reclaim a Racist South Carolina Monument
2015-11-04 18:16:43| Real Estate - Topix.net
In the center of North Augusta, in front of a fountain on the lawn of the town's oldest house, there's an obelisk memorial to a white supremacist who died massacring a black town. The monument is in no way ambiguous about its purpose.
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