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May 1, 2025

DEADLINE: Waterston Desert Writing Prize

This award, a program of the High Desert Museum in Oregon, celebrates proposals for outstanding literary nonfiction dedicated to the literal and figurative exploration of desert landscapes. $3,000 prize and reading/reception in September 2025. Enter by May 1.

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Canadian Company Turns To Trump For Permission To Mine International Waters

"A Canadian company announced Tuesday that its U.S. subsidiary submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the seafloor, sparking outrage by bypassing a U.N. agency that regulates deep international waters."

Source: AP, 04/30/2025

Labor Dept. Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face Crminal Charges

"A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business."

Source: ProPublica, 04/30/2025

"The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance"

"“This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build. Here’s another distraction in his quest for attention. Another failure of his first 100 days,” said North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams, responding to efforts to physically remove the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit from the National Museum of African American History and Culture — affectionately known as the “Blacksonian.”"

Source: BlackPressUSA, 04/30/2025

"Illinois Delays a Project Meant to Keep Asian Carp Out of the Great Lakes"

"The governor wants assurances that the federal government will pay its share before moving forward." "Pritzker was reacting to the administration’s freezes and cancellation of funding around the country. But the move concerns Great Lakes advocates and freshwater biologists."

Source: Inside Climate News, 04/30/2025

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