"Invalidate the criminalization of protected First Amendment activity and to also strip Maui County of any ability to criminally charge anyone who exercises their First Amendment rights."
New Mexico's Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health emergency in response to multiple recent shooting deaths in the state.
South Dakota saw a victory after the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted unanimously to reject a carbon-capture pipeline proposal that would have cost farmers thousands of acres.
Louisiana officials announced that the state's wildfire was deliberately set, although authorities have not released details of the Tiger Island Fire's origin.
In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that MosquitoMate, Inc. had submitted plans to infect live male mosquitoes with a bacteria called "Wolbachia pipientis," which enhances WNV infection.
Previously, the media blamed the wildfires, which have forced numerous evacuations across the nation, on so-called "climate change," which has replaced the "global cooling" narrative prevalent just a few decades ago.
