Tag: smoke pollution
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Trump’s Executive Order To Speed Logging
In March, President Trump declared a national emergency by Executive Order to speed up the logging of our national forests. The order affects more than 112 million acres, larger than the entire state of California. It would remove or nullify most environmental safeguards on our national forests. Trump’s order exempts objections to timber sales by…
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Mustang fire breaches the U.S. Highway 93 containment line!!
Will firefighters be able to prevent a new run even farther to the east? Update 9/17. Eastward spread of fire most likely contained. The Mustang Fire has burned at least a hundred miles now, west and east along the main fork the Salmon River in Idaho. The River contained the Fire’s southward spread, and firefighters…