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The decision voided the EPA guidance to terminate the $2.8 billion grant program. But it stopped short of requiring the agency to resume administering it.

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that the Trump administration’s termination of environmental justice grants was “illegal.” The decision dealt a setback to efforts to dismantle a Biden-era program that funded projects addressing environmental and public health challenges in underserved communities across the country.

Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants, Judge Rules

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Utah National Monument Survives Attempt to Rescind its Management Plan

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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has been targeted for downsizing and protection rollbacks for years. But the latest attempt to overturn its management plan in Congress has stalled.

GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT, Utah—When Autumn Gillard first visited this national monument in southern Utah’s red rock country, she hiked to the top of a plateau. Her heart was broken there.

Utah National Monument Survives Attempt to Rescind its Management Plan

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‘Sponge Cities’ Are Catching On. But Can They Handle Supercharged Storms?

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Pairing engineered stormwater infrastructure with green spaces can reduce flooding in cities. But wetter storms are pushing these systems to the brink, experts say.

In 2011, a short but catastrophic cloudburst hammered Copenhagen, flooding parts of the Danish city with more than 5 inches of rain in a single day.

‘Sponge Cities’ Are Catching On. But Can They Handle Supercharged Storms?

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Emergency Drawdown at Flaming Gorge Hits Its Recreation Economy

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The drought-induced draw to save downstream Lake Powell is wreaking havoc on Wyoming-Utah’s beloved recreation area.

As campers with boats flocked to Buckboard Marina at the start of Memorial Day weekend, Tony Valdez was busy issuing refunds and repairing broken boat ramps. One older Green River man, who walked with two canes, left with his money refunded for the season after discovering he could not safely make it down to the boat slip. Due to dropping water levels at Flaming Gorge Reservoir, the ramp is now buckled, angling up and down like a pitched roof.

Emergency Drawdown at Flaming Gorge Hits Its Recreation Economy

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