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The Year in Water, 2022

Circle of Blue

The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. The strength of the shark’s teeth and the breadth of the bite were on full display in 2022. Though vivid, the shark metaphor is an inadequate frame for some of 2022’s defining water stories. Brett Walton.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2022 AB 1279. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2015 SB350. 2016 SB 32.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.

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The Stream, April 27, 2022: How a Rural Nebraskan Town Is Moving Forward a Year After Toxic Ethanol Plant Closes

Circle of Blue

Residents in a major neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria lack access to clean drinking water and say their government has abandoned them. What’s Up With Water—April 26, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers paying for groundwater in California and a controversial canal project in Nebraska. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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Celebrating the 6TH Annual #WeAreLakeErie Day: Let’s Show Our Government How Much We Love This Global Treasure!

Enviromental Defense

The latest State of the Great Lakes 2022 report shows that Lake Erie faces some persistent problems and is in poor condition. Lake Erie algal blooms, August 2011, along the southeast Lake Erie shore of Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada, 5 miles north of the international line. The provincial and federal governments must do better on this.

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

PA Environment Daily

Click Here for the 2022 week-by-week list of articles! Conservation Leadership - 2004 to 2022: -- 1,198 New Articles In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA -- 233 Stories: These Conservation Leaders Gave Us Cleaner Water, Land & Air In 2020! Posted: December 28, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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HotSpots H2O: Trouble Areas Emerge as Summer Looms

Circle of Blue

Water governance institutions of the past are not well-equipped to respond to the rapidly changing effects of climate change,” said Heikkila, the co-director of the Center for Policy and Democracy at the University of Colorado Denver. The time for more collective action at all scales of governance is here,” she said.