Bobby Magill
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Water, Public Lands Reporter at Bloomberg Law based in the DC area. Got a tip? Message me on Signal: @bobbymagill.01
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Trump Seeks Steep Cuts to Monuments, Parks, Wildlife Protection
The Interior Department’s conservation, wildlife habitat programs, and historic preservation programs and hundreds of units of the National Park System are proposed to be eliminated under the White Ho...
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Trump is proposing to eliminate all (or most) of the National Park Units that don't have "national park" in their name, or roughly 370 NPS sites, if I'm doing my math right. He's also proposing to "undo" Biden's national monuments. And much more. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Trump will let the oil industry kill migratory birds without penalty as long as they say they don't mean to do it. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Trump Allows Migratory Bird Killings, Cancels Further Protection
The Trump administration will allow unintentional bird killings under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and will cancel a rulemaking that would have enhanced bird protections from oil and gas operations.
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Of the 17,500 acres of public land the federal government sold for housing in southern Nevada under a 1998 law, only 30 acres were sold directly for affordable housing. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Land Sale Plan's Model Led to Scant Affordable Housing in Nevada
The Interior Department’s plan to privatize federal lands for affordable housing is based on a model that has resulted in only a tiny fraction of low-cost housing, agency data shows.
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The Trump administration is proposing to log wilderness areas as part of its emergency declaration in national forests. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return are among those on this map: www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
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NEW: CDC FOIA page are being dismantled, including pages containing FOIA request logs and the portal to submit FOIA requests.
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: The entire CDC #FOIA office — nearly two dozen people — received RIF notices. FOIA personnel at FDA and NIH were also dismissed. The CDC has seen a massive uptick in FOIA requests this year. It’s the second busiest year since Covid. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Trump administration is studying selling 625 square miles of federal land within 10 miles of cities with a population of 5,000 or more. It's the new administration's answer to the the housing crisis. (Sorry... paywall) news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Trump Studies Selling 625 Square Miles of Federal Land for Homes
The Interior Department is considering selling an area of federal land larger than the city of Los Angeles as part of the agency’s plan to use public lands to help solve the housing crisis.
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The Trump administration is tranforming the EPA into an economic development engine, dismissing the science of climate change as a "religion," and facilitating Trump's "Drill, Baby, Drill" agenda. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Trump's EPA Pivots to Powering Business at Risk to Environment
President Richard Nixon set a clear mission for the EPA when he created the agency in 1970: Establish and enforce standards for air and water quality, monitor the condition of the environment, and hel...
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Interior Department workers essential drilling, baby, drilling are exempt from voluntary staff reductions. So are firefighters and HR staff. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Workers Focused on Energy Exempt from Interior Staff Reductions
Wildland firefighters, cybersecurity, and some energy-related permitting positions are exempt from the Interior Department’s voluntary early retirement and separation incentive offers it began giving ...
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Trump begins reconsidering protections for the imperiled monarch butterfly news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
Trump to Reconsider Protections for Imperiled Monarch Butterfly
The Trump administration on Tuesday took its first steps to avoid protecting the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act.
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BREAKING: The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University has reneged on their commitment to host the @sciencewriters.org annual conference and withdrew their entire financial support. The National Association of Science Writers is now looking for a new venue, sponsors, and partners.
Trump and DOGE lay off workers. Trump and DOGE begin to undermine their "drill, baby, drill" agenda. Here's what that looks like: news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
‘Drill Baby Drill’ Belied by Firing Federal Permit Approvers (1)
Among the probationary employees fired from the federal government were Bureau of Land Management workers poised to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order to speed up oil drilling permits ...
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