EXCLUSIVE: Trump reportedly to change or kill New England Marine Monument

MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS • June 5, 2020

President Trump will arrive in Bangor, Maine, today at around 1:50 p.m. He will go into a discussion at the airport with commercial fisheries stakeholders who the White House has refused to identify. However, inside sources tell Maine Environmental News that Trump is expected to undermine the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of New England on the edge of Georges Bank. He may even “torpedo” it. It was created by President Barack Obama in 2016 as the first U.S. national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean in response to citizens requesting the area be protected, due to its importance as a biodiversity hotspot, habitat for numerous rare and endangered species, and a valuable scientific and historical site. Two years ago, the Trump administration defended the monument asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from fishermen trying to eliminate it.