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

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“While Colorado River water users have invested billions of dollars to reduce consumption and increase resiliency, the situation we face today is real and urgent,” John Entsminger, the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing on May 25. million acres.

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The Stream, August 12, 2021: Major Rivers in India Are Rising To Dangerous Levels

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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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The Stream, September 3, 2021: When Climate Disasters Strike, Rural America Suffers The Most

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Rural, low-income towns across America suffer the most from climate disasters. In the American West, funds approved in 2014 for water storage projects in California have not been used and a town in Utah completely runs out of water. After drought hit the state of California in 2014, voters approved a $7.5 YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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EPA Finalizes Rule To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Infrastructure; DEP’s Oil & Gas Methane Regulations 1 Year Old

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Future generations will look back on this as a game-changing moment in the fight for a safe climate,’ stated climate scientist and President/CEO of EEN, Rev. It also represents wise stewardship of our precious natural resources and good fiscal management. Dr. Jessica Moerman. “As

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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For instance, the court found that the Natural Resources Defense Council—which contended that one of its members suffered harm due to delay of “rules to curb climate change”—had not identified a particular rule or regulatory action that would address the member’s concerns. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District v. Court Said Climate Scientist Provided Sufficient Evidence of Actual Malice for Blog Authors but Not for Publisher.

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