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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. ICS is not conservation in the household sense of simply using less. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue.

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DCNR Accepting Permit Applications For 2023 Regional ATV Connector Pilot Program In Northcentral PA, Riding Season Dates Set

PA Environment Daily

On April 4, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced permits for the ATV Regional Trail Connector Pilot Program in the northcentral region of the state are now available for purchase. DCNR recently revised its ATV trail policy, which lifted the moratorium on new trails that had been in place since 2003.

2023 98
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Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement

Vermont Law

Tutman’s entry into the Waterkeeper realm happened almost by chance: while at an environmental meeting in 2003 , he met a riverkeeper called Fred Kelly. In 2004, Tutman founded the Patuxent Riverkeeper , a non-profit organization that aims to “conserve, protect and replenish Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway.”

2003 52
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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

In reality I debunk the unscientific claim that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction,” and make the case that our conservation concern should be focused on protecting and expanding habitat and the number of wild animals. felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. Bangladesh is today a more clear-cut example.”

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Not far away, Tim Stutzman, another conservation-minded farmer, feeds cattle and farms 2,800 acres in Morenci. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. .

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

It describes how EPA has identified candidate PFAS in 24 categories for which the Agency will require companies to perform testing under TSCA Section 4. The Strategy also describes a tiered-testing approach for each candidate PFAS that will inform whether additional testing within a category is necessary. 47102 (Aug. 23, 2021).]]

2021 52
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Research briefing: why are reports of hate crime surging during the Israel-Hamas conflict?

Environmental Progress

‘According to the ADL Center on Extremism, which gathers reports and tracks antisemitic incident data, these 3,291 antisemitic incidents from 10 October 2023 to 7 January 2024 break down into the following categories:’ ‘56 incidents of physical assault.’ ‘554 554 incidents of vandalism.’ 1,347 incidents of verbal or written harassment.’