Obama won’t name Cashes Ledge an undersea monument

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — White House officials said Friday that President Barack Obama is not considering an underwater mountain in the Gulf of Maine for designation as a national monument, a message welcomed by commercial fisherman but frustrating to environmentalists. Environmental groups want Obama to permanently protect Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain and offshore ecosystem. They tried, over months of campaigning, to make the case that Cashes Ledge deserves to be the first monument of it

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — White House officials said Friday that President Barack Obama is not considering an underwater mountain in the Gulf of Maine for designation as a national monument, a message welcomed by commercial fisherman but frustrating to environmentalists. Environmental groups want Obama to permanently protect Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain and offshore ecosystem. They tried, over months of campaigning, to make the case that Cashes Ledge deserves to be the first monument of it…