Natural Resources

Suit Challenges Trump Order To Allow Commercial Fishing In Pacific Monument

"Environmentalists are challenging in court President Trump’s executive order that they say strips core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and opens the area to harmful commercial fishing."

Source: LA Times, 05/27/2025

"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region"

"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/22/2025

"EPA Defunds Research Into PFAS Contamination on Farms"

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has canceled grant funding to university research teams studying how “forever chemicals” contaminate soil and groundwater, including at least $3 million for two projects specifically looking at contamination on farms."

Source: Civil Eats, 05/22/2025

"On ‘World Bee Day,’ The Bees Did Not Seem Bothered. They Should Be"

"Bees and other pollinators have been on the decline for years, and experts blame a combination of factors: insecticides, parasites, disease, climate change and lack of a diverse food supply. A significant part of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by bees — not just honeybees, but hundreds of species of lesser-known wild bees, many of which are endangered."

Source: AP, 05/21/2025

"WOTUS: A Narrowing EPA Definition Is Reshaping The Clean Water Act"

"Debra Shankland was a kid when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire in 1969. ... Shankland was one of many speakers at the latest listening session led by the EPA as the agency crafts a new definition for the long controversial language “waters of the United States” contained in the Clean Water Act. The interpretation of that phrase, commonly shorthanded as WOTUS, can have massive implications for the health of small streams, remote wetlands, creeks and other waters."

Source: The New Lede, 05/20/2025

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