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一 |     RENO, Nev. -- In an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine, environmentalists are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing U.S. wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species status for a tiny snail that lives nearby. The Western Watersheds Project said in its formal notice of intent to sue that the government's failure to list the Kings River pyrg as a threatened or endangered species could push it to the brink of extinction.It says the only place the snail is known to exist is in 13 shallow springs near where Lithium Americas is building its Thacker Pass Mine near the Oregon line.President Joe Biden has made ramped-up domestic production of lithium a key part of his blueprint for a greener future. Worldwide demand for the critical element in the manufacture of electric vehicle batteries is projected to increase six-fold by 2030 compared with 2020.Past lawsuits filed by conservationists and tribes have taken aim — largely unsuccessfully — at the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, which they accused of cutting regulatory corners to expedite approval of the mine itself in 2021.The new approach targets the department's Fish and Wildlife Service, charged with ensuring protection of fish and wildlife habitat surrounding the mine site 200 miles (321 kilometers) northeast of Reno.Western Watersheds Project says groundwater pumping associated with the mine’s 370-foot-deep (113-meter) open pit will reduce or eliminate flows to the springs that support the snails.In the formal 90-day notice of intent to sue sent to Interior Secretary Deborah Haaland last month, they say her agency's failure to make a 12-month finding on the listing petition filed in September 2022 is a violation of the Endangered Species Act.“The Fish and Wildlife Service isn’t supposed to sit on its hands while species are in imminent danger of extinction, but the fact that it hasn’t met the deadlines on the pyrg raises questions about why they might be delaying,” Adam Bronstein, the project's Nevada director, said in a statement.“It would be absolutely unacceptable if the Biden Administration is waiting until it’s too late to save the species so as not to interrupt the construction of a lithium mine," he said.Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said in an email Thursday the department had no comment on the group's intent to sue.Western Watersheds Project said time is of the essence because the snails were imperiled even before any new mining was contemplated due to livestock grazing, round-building and, increasingly, the anticipated impacts of climate change.“The species has no regulatory protection whatsoever ... because it is not an endangered species, or even a Bureau of Land Management-listed Sensitive species, and has no state law protections," the notice said.Conservationists and tribal lawyers claimed a partial victory last year when U.S. District Judge Miranda Du concluded the bureau failed to fully comply with new interpretations of the 1872 Mining Law. But she stopped short of blocking the project, allowing construction to begin as the bureau shored up plans for disposal of waste rock.The opponents appealed, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Du's ruling in July.The tiny snail’s shell is less than 2 millimeters (0.08 inches) tall. By comparison, a U.S. nickel coin is 1.95 millimeters thick. They've managed to survive in isolated springs, which are remnants of extensive waterways that have covered what is now dry land only to recede many times over the last 2 million years, the listing petition said.The project says three of the springs are within a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) buffer zone, the bureau established in its review of potential impacts of a 10-foot (3-meter) drawdown of the groundwater table, and the rest are less than 4 miles (4.8 kilometers) away."As drought frequency increases with climate change, the Kings River pyrg will be at high risk of extinction,” the letter to Haaland said. It notes that the Nevada Department of Wildlife considers the pyrg “extremely vulnerable to climate change.”Lithium Americas had no comment on the notice of intent to sue the Fish and Wildlife Service, spokesman Tim Crowley said. The company said when the listing petition was filed last year that it's done extensive work to design a project that avoids impacts to the springs.The Bureau of Land Management said earlier its environmental review of the project that it didn't detect any of the snails "within the direct footprint of the project or any area likely to be adversely affected by the project.”。    　　讯 8月14日，青海省政府新闻办举行青海省“开局起步‘十五五’”主题系列新闻发布会海南州专场。发布会上，海南州委副书记、州人民政府代州长当周就《海南州“十五五”规划纲要》（以下简称《纲要》）进行介绍。　　《纲要》全面贯彻落实党中央决策部署、省委省政府工作要求，紧扣省委赋予海南“全力推动泛共和盆地绿色崛起，加快形成全省发展重要的新增长极”重要定位，确立“生态立州、能源强州、农牧稳州、文旅活州”发展战略，系统谋划了未来五年发展蓝图。

二 | 《纲要》编制过程中，统筹兼顾“十四五”收官成果、“十五五”总体布局与2035年远景目标，既总结过去五年取得的重大成就和宝贵经验，又精准承接国家、省级重大战略部署，科学谋划前瞻务实的目标任务，到2035年与全国全省同步基本实现社会主义现代化筑牢发展根基。　　锚定“生态立州”战略，厚植全域绿色发展底色。海南州将全力创建生态文明建设示范区、全域无垃圾示范州、无废城市，协同推进青海湖国家公园创建，全域建设美丽海南，系统打造幸福河湖；扎实实施三北防护林、黄河流域综合治理等重点生态工程，系统科学推进国土绿化行动，计划累计完成生态保护治理面积1400万亩；建成共和塔拉滩、贵德温泉生活垃圾焚烧发电项目，实现城乡污水、生活垃圾集中、无害化处理全覆盖。

三 | 到“十五五”末，实现空气优良天数占比稳定保持96%以上，黄河出境断面水质保持Ⅱ类及以上，让山川绿、天空蓝、河湖清成为常态，以全域优良生态风貌持续涵养各族群众的幸福感。　　聚力“能源强州”战略，锻造全域经济增长核心引擎。

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