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HotSpots H2O: Report Spotlights Funding Gap in Canada’s First Nations Water Crisis

Circle of Blue

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — December 13, 2021. The report, published last week, found that the government has allocated more than enough funding to build the necessary water infrastructure. The findings come in the aftermath of a critical missed deadline by the federal government. A 2004 U.N.

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Lit Alerts—March 2021

Arnold Porter

20-616, 2021 WL 922749 (2d Cir. 11, 2021), the Second Circuit recently ruled that broad immunity under Section 230 protects internet providers who block third-party content they deem objectionable from liability. 20-10856, 2021 WL 805534 (11th Cir. 2020-1909, 2021 WL 865359 (Fed. § 230(c)(2). In Domen v.

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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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How Forest Management Can Build Healthy Wildfire Cycles in Western North America

Union of Concerned Scientists

More continuous and densely arranged trees in such forests can easily carry and spread fire, and increase the risk of insect outbreaks like mountain pine beetle, which impacted nearly 40 million acres of forest in British Columbia during an outbreak that peaked in 2004. Image from Government of British Columbia.

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3,190 New Stories In 2022 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership

PA Environment Daily

Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support!

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First District Upholds Use of Government Code Section 65457 CEQA Exemption For Downtown Livermore Affordable Housing Project, Roundly Rejects Meritless Arguments of NIMBY Opposition

CEQA Developments

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. 2021) 74 Cal.App.5th City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S. China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5