Biden is creating new national monuments to protect land in Nevada and Texas

Biden is creating new national monuments to protect land in Nevada and Texas President Biden on Tuesday will proclaim two vast swaths of land – one in Nevada, the other in West Texas – as national monuments, a designation that effectively preserves a total of nearly 514,000 acres of land from new development. Biden also will start the process to designate 777,000 square miles around the Pacific islands southwest of Hawaii as a National Marine Sanctuary. Part of this area includes an existing marine national monument. Biden had pledged to...