“Last June, as part of a concerted campaign to dismantle the environmental policies of the Obama administration, Donald Trump met with fishermen in Maine and signed a proclamation that allowed commercial fishing in nearly 5,000 square miles of federally protected waters southeast of Cape Cod. But elections have consequences, and on Wednesday President Joe Biden signed an executive order that could overturn Trump’s decision and restore the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean to its former status, part of a flurry of executive actions Biden took on his first day in office to reverse many of the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks.
“Through his recent executive orders, President Biden has sent a powerful message that the EPA will be doing what it is supposed to be doing — protecting public health and the environment,” said Kyla Bennett, science policy director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Washington-based advocacy group.”
