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

Circle of Blue

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. ICS is not conservation in the household sense of simply using less. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue.

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What is Wave Energy?

Ocean Conservancy

Here at Ocean Conservancy, we know the ocean provides powerful solutions to the climate crisis. Waves are complex and operate in turbulent environments and multiple categories of WECs along with even more specific prototype and experimental designs that exist to generate electricity. Since 2015, the U.S. Now, let’s dive in.

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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

in 2015 to 13.3% Previously, the environmental sector was focused on air and water pollution, and wildlife conservation. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. But analysis based on wider datasets is more conservative. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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Pollution: not “an unavoidable consequence” of development

Science Blogs

For example, the committee's analysis indicates: An estimated 9 million deaths in 2015 can be attributed to air, water, and soil pollution. An economy that] conserves and increases resources, rather than taking and depleting them.". Categories. The headlines whet my appetite for more of the numbers and the report delivers.

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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

The GPU designation of the 140-acre Project site (18 acres of which would be used by the recycling facility and 44 acres of which would be preserved as habitat by a conservation easement) is “High Impact Industrial” with a zoning classification of “General Impact Industrial,” which allows recycling facilities such as the NCER Project.

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Constitutional Amendments

Smith Enviorment

In 2015, former Governor Pat McCrory sued the General Assembly over laws giving the legislature power to appoint a majority of three environmental commissions — the Coal Ash Management Commission, Mining Commission and Oil and Gas Commission. Public hunting and fishing shall be a preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.

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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. Denver Colorado (2015).