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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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‘A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report

Circle of Blue

The number of critical treatment works listed in the last report – from 2013 – was 248. The average Green Drop score across all provinces in 2013 was 61%. The report notes, “The effluent quality must comply to 90% [in total] with the authorised limits for the respective categories.”. Photo © Steve Kretzmann / CCIJ.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

The public will be invited to ask questions. Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and For more information and to register, visit ansp.org. and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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

Circle of Blue

Within the four categories of ICS, there are limits on the ICS each water user can create, the amount they can take out in a year, and the total amount stored. This is a special category can be withdrawn through the year 2057, but only once Lake Mead rises above 1,110 feet. There have been far more ICS deposits than withdrawals.

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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

Located in a steep valley directly west of Interstate 15, the Project site is also located adjacent to parcels of land zoned “semi-rural residential” and in proximity to a number of residential communities, which resulted in strong public opposition to the Project ultimately leading to litigation. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th

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Action: 2019 Budget

Smith Enviorment

Under the agreement, the replacement water supply means connection to a public water system unless the well owner declines or DEQ finds it would be prohibitively expensive or unsafe. The project, restoration of Little Alamance Creek in Burlington, was completed in 2012-2013.

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Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court

The Energy Law Blog

The district court reasoned that the “public-nuisance claim raised issues relating to ‘interstate and intentional disputes implicating conflicting rights of States or. 251, 258 (2013) (citing Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. claim for relief.” Darue Engineering & Manufacturing, 545 U.S. 308, 314 (2005)). Regions Bank of La.,