Lawsuit Seeks Public Records on Trump Administration’s Approval of California Water-mining Project

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Lawsuit Seeks Public Records on Trump Administration’s Approval of California Water-mining Project

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Department of the Interior today for failing to provide public records on Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt’s communications and schedules. These records could shed light on the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to allow an enormous California groundwater-mining scheme, Cadiz, Inc., to move forward without environmental review. Today’s lawsuit also seeks […]

Native Americans No Closer to Learning Fates of Boarding School Ancestors

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Native Americans No Closer to Learning Fates of Boarding School Ancestors

WASHINGTON — A Native American advocacy group says the U.S. government has failed in its responsibility to account for the fate of hundreds, perhaps thousands of children who died or disappeared into a historic boarding school system designed to “civilize” and Christianize generations of Native American children. Now, the group is hoping to take its case […]