Trump Order on Commercial Fishing in Pacific Challenged

Trump order on commercial fishing in Pacific challenged

A lawsuit against the Trump administration has challenged an order to open the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National...

Trump’s latest monument to stupidity

“Fixed fortifications,” General George S Patton once said, “are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, anything made by man can be overcome.” Consider as an object lesson of one man’s stupidity, Trump’s border wall. Trump claimed it was a success, of course. It was in fact a…

Environmentalists’ lawsuit challenges Trump’s order to allow commercial fishing in Pacific monument

HONOLULU (AP) — Environmentalists are challenging in court President Donald Trump’s executive order that they say strips core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and opens the area to harmful commercial fishing. On the same day of last month’s proclamation allowing commercial fishing in the monument, Trump issued an order to boost the U.S. commercial fishing industry by peeling back regulations and opening up h…