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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

Those trends, in turn, also are prompting innovations in community design and installation of expensive infrastructure to use less fresh water and recycle more wastewater. Bernalillo County required the developer to install expensive wastewater treatment and recycling infrastructure to reduce water use and waste. Keith Schneider.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

The collapse of the bridge near Frick Park in Pittsburgh is only the latest and most vivid example of the ‘Rob Peter To Pay Paul To Fund Mary’ infrastructure funding policies implemented by the people who now run the General Assembly. billion in safety and infrastructure improvements alone-- it was $1 billion just two years ago.

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Some Michigan Water Systems Are Overbuilt, Underfunded. Are Mergers The Answer?

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Customers get cheaper, cleaner water when communities share the cost of infrastructure. Kelly House, Bridge Michigan – May 11, 2022. Like living alone in a mansion on a blue collar salary, some of those hulking pieces of infrastructure have become absurd to own and impossible to maintain at current levels of ratepayer support. .

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The Year in Water, 2021

Circle of Blue

The Year in Water, 2021. Water Crises Take Center Stage By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 9, 2021. Communities rich and poor bore witness to horrific devastation in 2021. Brett Walton 2021-06-24 11:27:27 2021-11-29 20:36:55 Drought, The Everything Disaster. Too little. Too polluted.

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Antitrust Agency Insights: Developments at the US Antitrust Enforcement Agencies—Fourth Quarter 2022

Arnold Porter

1, 2021), available here. ” However, the Depository Institutions Management Interlocks Act, 12 USC §§ 3201–08, prohibits one person from serving as a “management official” of two depository institutions or depository holding companies, subject to certain exceptions.]] ” Read the Press Release.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

This extensive drainage infrastructure carries nutrient-rich water from 3.8 In 2020, for instance, the 14 CAFOs in Lenawee and Hillsdale counties – 11 dairies and 3 hog operations – spread 221.4 In December 2021, in collaboration with the state Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, EGLE and Gov. Keith Schneider.