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Nevada sues Interior over cuts to 'already meager' Colorado River water allocation

The lawsuit challenges the record of decision released Friday, which governs how Colorado River water is divided among the seven basin states. Under the decision, Nevada's 300,000-acre-foot allocation could be cut by up to 213,556 acre-feet.

The Trump admin upended how we fight fire. Then came West's worst fire season in years.

Fast-moving fires have burned millions of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in the West, including hundreds of thousands of acres in Nevada. The Indy partnered with five other nonprofit newsrooms in the West to show how on-the-ground changes made by the Trump administration have affected the ability to fight fires amid increasingly destructive conditions. 

Full fire suppression by 10 a.m. Outdated rule returns — sort of

After a series of catastrophic blazes in the early 1900s, the U.S. Forest Service mandated the "10 a.m. rule," declaring that wildland fires should be put out by 10 a.m. the day after they were reported. The plan backfired, leaving forests with debris that fueled more dangerous fires.

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