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

Circle of Blue

Mead’s declining water levels, projected to reach record lows in the next two years, will challenge water managers in the basin. Arizona officials, meanwhile, plan to use 69,100 acre-feet of ICS credits to reduce mandatory cutbacks that will be required in 2022 if Mead declines as projected. Photo © J. million acres.

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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.

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

Environmental Progress

The land in Ireland is infinitely more peopled than in England,” Malthus famously wrote, “and to give full effect to the natural resources of the country, a great part of the population should be swept from the soil.” felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. Bangladesh is today a more clear-cut example.”

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

Environmental Progress

Energy Information Administration ("EIA") estimates renewables will be a larger source of electricity than natural gas in the United States by 2050. In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] 30] By contrast, today’s energy system requires just 0.5

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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. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . When the years of planning and execution are completed, such projects are typically very successful. .