06/08/2026
It's Beginning on the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump has issued more than a dozen executive orders and proclamations rolling back landmark environmental regulations that have protected people, wildlife and natural resources for decades. These reversals could have devastating effects for federal Marine Protected Areas.
“It makes us fight harder for what we love or what we want to protect,” says Jonee Peters, executive director of the 75-year-old , a National Wildlife Federation affiliate. That’s true today, she says, even if “it’s a harder battle.”
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