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Latest top headlines • 18 September 2026
A new executive order from Trump will open up several NMons to hunting. https://buff.ly/X0lpT8P
Despite intense opposition, contractors have begun building Trump's border wall in Texas' Big Bend region — albeit for the moment outside the boundaries of Big Bend NP and Big Bend Ranch SP. https://buff.ly/yqloZMT
Houses are falling into the ocean at Cape Hatteras NS (and elsewhere) because of rising sea levels. There is plenty of warning, but homeowners are incentivized to let them collapse with all their belongings inside because of the way federal flood insurance works. https://buff.ly/CC03iKD
The Trump political appointees who currently control USNPS are forcing the agency to disregard its own analysis and fast-track approval of his arch project. https://buff.ly/VEiA2J2
Trump is proposing to allow people to kill endangered species as long as they claim they didn't intend to. Environmental law experts are outraged. https://buff.ly/0JQ8Va4
The Guardian has a feature on the public's overwhelmingly negative reaction to Trump's censorship campaign in NPs. https://buff.ly/AC7GabF
The state of Montana has dropped its lawsuit against USNPS and Yellowstone NP over the park's bison management plan. https://buff.ly/NjiT1hh
Mining can go ahead on a private inholding within Lake Clark NP&Pres, a judge ruled. https://buff.ly/fA4kMIX
West Texas landowners are joining a conservation group to sue Trump over plans to build border security in Big Bend NP. https://buff.ly/XD6v0hJ
DOI has canceled $25M in partnership grants with organizations working with USNPS, saying that the organizations were working against the Trump administration's priorities. https://buff.ly/zwJtIjO
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