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Project To Raise California’s Shasta Dam Could Move Forward Under Trump [1]

"Enlarging the dam would deliver more Sacramento River water to Central Valley farmers but a tribe could lose sacred sites and endangered salmon could lose habitat in wet years."

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Source: CalMatters [12], 05/14/2025
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Calif. Senator Calls On NOAA To Restore 'Billion-Dollar' Disaster Database [13]

"Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting secretary to restore a database that tracked billion-dollar U.S. disasters."

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Source: Reuters [19], 05/14/2025
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"Trump Administration to Fast-Track Permits for Utah Uranium Mine" [20]

"The Interior Department said it would fast-track the permitting process for a uranium mine in Utah as part of President Trump’s plan to shorten environmental reviews and speed the construction of certain types of energy projects." "An environmental review of the project, known as Velvet-Wood, would normally take roughly a year. The government says it will complete the process in two weeks."

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Nuclear Power & Radiation [25]
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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
Source: NYTimes [27], 05/14/2025
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"Facing Lawsuit, USDA Says It Will Restore Climate Change-Related Webpages" [28]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over the deletions in February. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group, argued that the deletions violated rules around citizens’ access to government information."

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People & Population [30]
Science [31]
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Source: AP [32], 05/14/2025
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"3M to Pay New Jersey Up to $450 Million for Drinking-Water Contamination" [33]

"3M is set to pay New Jersey up to $450 million over the next quarter-century to settle claims it contaminated the state with harmful “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, affecting drinking water."

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Source: NYTimes [37], 05/14/2025
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Great Lakes May Get A Reprieve From The Great Carp Invasion After All [38]

"A stalemate between President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker that threatened a $1.2 billion plan to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes appears to have been settled after the Trump administration offered assurances it will cover its share of the costs."

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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: AP [41], 05/13/2025
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"Trump Reinstating Commercial Fishing In Northeast Marine Monument" [42]

"President Trump is reinstating commercial fishing in a national marine monument after the practice was blocked by his Democratic predecessors."

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Source: The Hill [43], 05/13/2025
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"Humans Still Haven't Seen 99.999% Of The Deep Seafloor" [44]

"Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have seen less than 0.001% of the globe's deep seafloor, according to a new study."

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Source: NPR [46], 05/12/2025
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"First US Trial Over PFAS Injuries to Focus on Kidney Cancer" [47]

"The first bellwether personal injury trial in a nationwide proceeding over damages from PFAS in specialized firefighting foam will focus on kidney cancer, the court managing the multidistrict case litigation ordered Friday."

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Source: Bloomberg Environment [48], 05/12/2025
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Environmentalists Will Be Seeing Trump Forces in Court — Often [49]

The judiciary is looking to become a major environmental battleground for journalists to watch in the coming months and years, as activists confront the Trump administration over its deregulatory campaign. The new Issue Backgrounder maps out the action, explaining how key laws foster citizen suits, while numerous nonprofits are staffed up to sue. Plus, some ways to track the action.

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