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Saturday, April 05, 2025
Republican congressmen urge Newsom to reconsider water plan * Reclamation streamlines water transfers in time for dry year * Lack of water allocations will ‘exacerbate’ subsidence
President Donald Trump waded into the Western water wars Friday, giving a boost to embattled Republican congressmen with a presidential memorandum containing deadlines for federal regulators to finish evaluating the environmental impacts of major water projects in California and the Pacific Northwest.
The Forest Service plans to use new authority it received in the omnibus spending bill to get more timber out of the nation's forests and make them less vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire, the service's acting chief has told congressional lawmakers.