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In the Pacific, Biden will direct the Commerce Department to consider initiating a new national marine sanctuary designation within 30 days to protect all U.S. waters around the Pacific Remote Islands. If completed, the new sanctuary would help ensure the U.S. reaches Biden’s goal to conserve at least 30% of ocean waters under U.S. jurisdiction by 2030, the White House said.
Biden has made fighting global warming a central part of his agenda, and White House officials have defended efforts to put the United States on track to meet Biden’s goal to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The Willow Project has garnered global attention in recent weeks as a #stopwillow campaign went viral across social media platforms, most notably gaining more than 600 million views on TikTok and amassing more than 4 million signatures on a change.org petition, making it one of the most popular petitions in the website’s history.
“Our creation story places us directly in the center of this area,” said Shan Lewis, vice chairman of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe. “Our efforts are to protect these places of significance and sacredness while maintaining their integrity as a place of home and worship.”
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Biden to create two new national monuments in Nevada and TexasU.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will create two new national monuments, in Nevada and Texas, and launch an effort to consider expanding protections for all waters around remote Pacific islands southwest of Hawaii.
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Biden to protect a half-million acres in Texas and NevadaPresident Biden on Tuesday will designate two new national monuments, putting nearly 514,000 acres off-limits to development as part of his pledge to protect a third of America’s lands and waters by 2030.
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Biden to establish new national monuments in Nevada and TexasThe monuments will protect around 514,000 acres of public lands.
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Biden to create two new national monuments in Nevada and TexasThe moves, which will be announced at a White House summit on conservation, are aimed at delivering on Biden's goal to conserve at least 30% of federal lands and waters by 2030. The two new national monuments will conserve 514,000 acres (208,008 hectares) of public land. The site is sacred to tribes including the Paiute and Chemehuevi, and provides habitat for species such as desert bighorn sheep, desert tortoise and a Joshua tree forest.
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Biden to create national monuments in Nevada, Texas at conservation summitPresident Joe Biden plans on Tuesday to announce the establishment of two new national monuments, protecting land totalling more than half a million acres, a White House official said.
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Biden is creating new national monuments to protect land in Nevada and TexasPresident 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.
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