“The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.” ― Kelly Corrigan
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| JUDICIAL MATTERS |
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| INDIGENOUS AMERICANS |
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| IMMIGRATION |
COMMENT
PERIOD FOR 'STARTUP VISA' RESCISSION: The
public will be able to comment until June 28 on the Trump administration's
decision to rescind the Obama-era international entrepreneur rule, according to
an announcement in
the Federal Register on Tuesday. The program, which would allow certain startup
founders to remain in the U.S. for up to five years on "parole,"
never really got off the ground. USCIS Director Francis Cissna said in an April letter that the administration had yet to approve a parole request.
The administration announced Friday
it would roll back the regulation. [POLITICO's Morning Shift, May 30, 2018]
STATES SUE EPA OVER ITS PESTICIDE SAFETY RULE
DELAY: New York, California and Maryland on
Wednesday sued the EPA for delaying a regulation that
would require employers to provide enhanced pesticide training in order to
protect farm workers from excessive exposure to the chemicals. In 2015, for the
first time in nearly 25 years, the agency updated the Worker Protection
Standard by setting a minimum age requirement of 18 for pesticide handlers, as
well as application exclusion zones. But near the end of 2017, EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt said the agency would reconsider parts of the
Obama-era rule. [POLITICO's Morning Agriculture, May 31, 2018]
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| WHIMSEY |
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| U.S. AGRICULTURE |
HOUSE, SENATE DIFFER ON HOW TO OVERSEE GE SALMON: The
Agriculture spending bills being developed in the House and Senate have
divergent paths for the regulation of genetically engineered salmon.
The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced on Thursday a bill
that includes a provision that would continue a ban on the sale of genetically
modified salmon until the FDA finalizes labeling guidelines.
But Rep. David Young attached to the House Agriculture
spending bill a provision that would tie disclosure requirements related to
genetically engineered salmon and finfish to a USDA rule on the National
Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. At some point, the two chambers will
have to sort out the dueling provisions. [POLITICO's
Morning Agriculture, May 29, 2018]
— California wine group backs Trump's case on
Canada: California wine producers praised the Trump
administration for revving up a WTO case against Canadian wine barriers, Pro
Trade's Doug Palmer reports. The action
takes on regulations that Canada's British Columbia province adopted in 2015
that requires its wines be sold in the province's grocery stores. [POLITICO's Morning Agriculture, May 29, 2018]
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| TECHNOLOGY |
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| READ |
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| RACE |
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| PUBLIC LANDS |
When it comes to Carrizo Plain National Monument, we're working
to protect more than wildflowers. This special place --
site of 2017's unusual wildflower "super bloom" -- is important to
endangered San Joaquin kit foxes, California condors and nature lovers from
around the world.
Last month, the Trump administration approved California-based
E&B Natural Resources Management Corporation's proposal for a new oil well
and pipeline on Carrizo Plain National Monument. It
is the first to be approved since 2001 -- and it could spell trouble for the
monument and its wildlife.1
Carrizo is perhaps best known for its 2017 wildflower
"super bloom," which attracted thousands of nature lovers.2 But
there is so much more at stake here.
The noise and disruption of the new rig would threaten important
habitat for the incredibly rare San Joaquin kit fox. Reflections from
drilling structures could attract rare California condors, risking the loss of
birds to toxic waste pits and collisions with drilling structures.3
Thank you for everything you do,
The Environmental Action team
May 30, 2018
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| POLITICS |
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| FROM THE PORCH |
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| ENVIRONMENT |
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