HARRISBURG, Pa. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is abandoning its plan to use two rural Pennsylvania warehouses to house thousands of people. The plan had been slowed by the state’s denial of drinking water and wastewater permits, and an ICE attorney filed paperwork Wednesday withdrawing his agency’s appeal of the denial. The state had
The summers of 2021 and 2022 were difficult seasons for Colorado’s Blue Mesa Reservoir. A severe drought hit much of the western U.S., prompting emergency water releases that brought the reservoir to its lowest level since 1984. Marinas and boat ramps closed, the remains of a ghost town emerged from the mud, and parts of