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Flooding soon in a basement near you: the impacts of weakening wetland protection in Ontario

Enviromental Defense

In the weeks since late October, when the province tabled its various proposals, conservation authorities and regional and municipal governments have published reports and statements containing their preliminary evaluation of the effects they are expecting within their jurisdictions. Image courtesy of Conservation Ontario.

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Gov. Wolf Unveils State Forest Action Plan To Address Next 10 Years Of Strategic Initiatives In PA Forests; Shale Gas Development Promotes Forest Fragmentation

PA Environment Daily

Of the 18 indicators of forest sustainability, 13 indicators are either in the unsustainable category or on the border between unsustainable and sustainable. The Forest Action Plan builds on the sustainability meters developed in the 2010 plan and notes changes in the past 10 years.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

As part of an apprenticeship I participated in with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, I was asked to explore tools that enable estimates of the return on investment to the public from ecosystem services provided by different land-uses, with an emphasis on private working lands such as farms and ranches. Colorado’s water plan.

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Fourth District Rejects CEQA And Municipal Code Challenges To City Of Santa Cruz’s Project Approvals And EIR For Small Multifamily Housing Project

CEQA Developments

The project at issue is a multifamily development on a vacant parcel of land in the City of Santa Cruz, a portion of which has slopes in the 15+ and 30+ percent categories. However, the City had plans to augment water supply through conservation, recharging aquifers, and treated recycled water.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

In its papers supporting the order to show cause, the attorney general said that PwC had served as Exxon’s independent auditor since before 2010 (the time period covered by the subpoena), a role in which PwC examined whether Exxon’s financial statement disclosures were supported by evidence. motion for leave to amend Oct. A148865 (Cal.

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Deserts as Ecosystems and Why They Need Protecting

Environmental Science

However, others argue that the other topographical features - of low precipitation (1-2” or 2-4cm annually) and high evapotranspiration leave them firmly in the desert category. A Brief History of the Use, Study, and Conservation, of Deserts. One of the earliest remits of the United Nations was conservation. In Antiquity.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. To get a better sense of where the court may be heading, I spoke with Sean Donahue , an environmental lawyer who argued one of the cases and was there for the other two oral arguments.