Trump signed multiple executive orders today targeting environmental protections. One order removes safeguards for a vast marine sanctuary in the south-central Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument had banned commercial fishing to protect endangered sea life like whales, dolphins, and sea turtles. Trump’s new directive reopens the sanctuary to commercial fishing within 50 to 200 nautical miles of its boundaries—putting some of the ocean’s most vulnerable ecosystems at risk.
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