E&E News (2/26, subs. req’d) reports, “Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) will introduce legislation next week barring the president from creating or expanding any national monuments in Alaska without first obtaining congressional approval. ... "Sixty percent of land in Alaska -- some 220 million acres -- is already under federal control, large swaths of which are protected as monuments, parks and wilderness," said Murkowski spokesman Robert Dillon. "That makes it exceedingly difficult for the state to realize its full economic potential." ADN by Lisa Demer.   Twenty-one Alaska lawmakers, including half the state [...]