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How Do Californians Perceive Climate Risks to Their Household Water Supplies?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. New supply projects and conservation or demand management programs are examples of the type of adaptation projects that could strain water systems and state budgets. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth.

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PA Parks & Forests Foundation Blog: What Is The Economic Value Of Protected Open Space In Pennsylvania?

PA Environment Daily

By Jason Lenker, Intern, PA Parks & Forests Foundation In 2011, the Audubon Society paired with the Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Landscape to aid counties along the Kittatinny Ridge (Berks, Carbon, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lebanon, Lehigh Valley, and Perry) in completing Return on Environment (ROE) reports.

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Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects

PA Environment Daily

Natural gas companies must also sign submerged land lease agreements with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for using stream and river beds between the high water marks of those bodies of water for pipeline crossings and water withdrawal points because the submerged land is owned by the Commonwealth. Read more here.

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Siting Renewables in New York: Updates from ORES Executive Director Houtan Moaveni and Suggestions from Panelists on How to Further Improve the New Siting Process

Law Columbia

From 2011 to April 2020, when the Legislature finally created the new process described below, only six renewable energy projects had made it through the Article 10 process, and only one project had actually begun construction. Law §§ 66-p(2)(a), (b). The CLCPA also requires that emissions be reduced 85% from 1990 levels by 2050.

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CEQA Remedies Go Both Ways:  Fourth District Reverses Judgment Upholding San Diego County Board’s Decision Granting Project Opponents’ Administrative Appeal, Holds Board Erred In Finding CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 Statutory Exemption Inapplicable And Ordering EIR Prepared for Exempt Industrial Project

CEQA Developments

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR).

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

As part of an apprenticeship I participated in with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, I was asked to explore tools that enable estimates of the return on investment to the public from ecosystem services provided by different land-uses, with an emphasis on private working lands such as farms and ranches. Blei, A. & & Potere, D.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Conservation Groups Asked to Intervene in Oil and Gas Trade Association’s Suit to Compel Quarterly Federal Mineral Lease Sales.

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