Mere hours afer being sworn in on January 20th, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order dealing with a host of public health and environmental issues. You may have heard about one of them: revocation of the permit for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, designed to bring heavy crude oil from Canada to the United States.
But tucked within his executive order was another significant directive that has received less attention: The president took the first steps toward restoring national monuments that had been drastically reduced in size by the Trump administration...