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The Stream, May 31, 2023: Iran and Taliban Exchange Gunfire, Heightening Water Tension

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Typhoon Mawar, the largest storm to hit Guam since 2002, has left many residents without water or electricity. In Senegal , water-saving farming methods are producing higher rice yields while improving soil health. territory since 2002, Al Jazeera reports. The attempt succeeded. from polluters and development.

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

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Harmful algal blooms now rank with climate change as a systemic ecological threat and a severe public policy challenge. Just how much of a threat was illustrated eight years ago when a toxic bloom shut down Toledo’s drinking water supply for 500,000 people over three days. Powerful resistance to oversight from the $1.1

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.8.22

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Oz At Odds Over Natural Gas, Environmental Concerns -- DEP Awards $3 Million To Restore Watersheds Statewide By Reducing Water Pollution [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Section-American Society Of Civil Engineers: Federal Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary Celebration Oct. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

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Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C.

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After Decades of Neglect, Bill Coming Due for Michigan’s Water Infrastructure

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billion infrastructure package that allocated federal funds that Congress had appropriated in the last two years in the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Communities are drafting affordable water programs and lobbying for state and federal assistance to supplement them. . In March, Gov.

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99 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

2 Hazelwood Green Pittsburgh -- Sustainable Pittsburgh: Insights For A Successful Regional Decarbonization Strategy -- StateImpactPA: PA Climate Forum Brings Informed Public Into Problem-Solving Effort -- AP: Low-Income Communities Learn To Tackle Climate-Fueled Heat [Philadelphia Included] -- PA Sea Grant, DEP Host Oct.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 103. and non-U.S.

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