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The Interior Department wrote nearly two billion dollars in checks to three developers to walk away from leases — and all three pledged the money to LNG, oil, and gas instead.
The South Georgia fire is now 38% contained at roughly 32,500 acres; the Forestry Commission expects full control by late May, and the 40,000-acre threshold the paper has been watching holds.
Three days after Reclamation's first-ever Section 6E invocation cut Lake Powell's annual release to 6.0 maf, no upper-basin or lower-basin filing has surfaced — the precedent stands.
DFO confirmed the gear that killed Eg #5217 came from Snow Crab Fishing Area 12 in 2020; the same week Canada renewed the voluntary shallow-water whalesafe pilot for three years.
Down timber from Helene 2024 has stopped being a footnote; fire models now name it as the Pineland Road blaze's signature fuel.
Seattle's smoke-forecast lab is on the 57-lab Forest Service closure list as Georgia's Pineland Road haze drifts north — geographic mismatch is the artifact.