such as the Delta smelt. The order comes just weeks after Trump accused Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., of caring more about protecting an endangered fish species than the state's residents amid the ...

Trump has long been vocal about his skepticism about wind (he thinks the turbines are ugly); low-flow toilets (he thinks they’re too hard to flush) and the delta smelt (he questioned this week ...

But there’s one much lesser-known party that he has also targeted: a tiny fish called the delta smelt. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt,” Trump wrote on ...

Pity the poor delta smelt. The tiny fish, which seldom grows to more than four inches or lives longer than a year, was once abundant in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It was an important link ...

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At issue is the longfin smelt, whose better-known relative, the delta smelt, has long been at the heart of high-profile habitat battles. The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed designating 91,630 ...

Amid the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles County, Donald Trump has criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom for trying to protect smelt fish at the cost of a water crisis in the state.

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.

In the midst of the raging wildfires in Los Angeles that have killed five people and destroyed thousands of homes, a strange 'culprit' has emerged - the delta smelt. Donald Trump has seized on the ...

In the same social media post, Trump continued that Newsom refused to sign the supposed declaration because the governor “wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt ...