Tracy Mumford
speaker
9,176 appearances
127 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And one last update on the Trump administration.
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The State Department has announced plans to revoke the visas of people who came to the US temporarily for tourism or business and are now trying to stay by applying for asylum.
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The department has already started reviewing those cases, and the cancellations are expected in waves.
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It could affect as many as 200,000 people.
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A department spokesman said in a statement that quote, these types of visas are issued with the clear understanding that they are for those who intend to return home.
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Meanwhile, the administration has halted the processing and adjudication of asylum applications, even though a federal judge has said it must review them.
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In Utah, out in a remote desert spot at the foot of a mountain range, there's a 25-foot-tall metal structure, kind of looks like tricked-out wired-up metal goalposts.
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And the company behind it is pitching it as one solution to the state's brutal drought.
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It says the device sends strong electrical pulses into the sky to help squeeze more water out of clouds.
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The practice is known as cloud seeding, which has been around for decades in several different forms.
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The most well known involves using airplanes to spray particles of silver iodide into the atmosphere to help rain form and fall.
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And now, as drought in the West gets more and more common, a lot of new experimental technology is being rolled out.
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For example, the company behind that tower in Utah claims that last winter it brought 15% more snow to the nearby mountains.
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It's a bold claim, but local water officials are thinking about chipping in tens of thousands of dollars for more of the devices.
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And they're not alone.
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States across the West are now spending millions each year on various cloud seeding efforts.
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When it comes to the tower, one of the Utah officials the Times talked with said that even without definitive evidence that the new technology is effective, it may be a gamble they can't afford to pass up.
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Saying the water situation is so dire that quote, perhaps we need to take some risk.
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And finally, it has been a summer of gastrointestinal distress.
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Put that on a tote bag.
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