Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7 and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.” Find all the work here.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. Utilities in Florida and Oklahoma have urged customers to conserve water so that treatment plant operators do not run out of oxygen. In India, a government program is bringing running water to more homes in areas of high-poverty.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2024

will receive the WeConservePA 2024 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award at the Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference at the Thursday night dinner on April 4. He has engaged in countless behind-the scenes, ad hoc task groups and conversations addressing the threats and opportunities for conservation. Schiffman, Esq.,

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

“The rights of nature, like all the rights established in the Constitution Ecuadorian law, have full normative force. The decision will force Ecuador’s government to revoke mining permits to state mining company Enami and its Canadian partner, Cornerstone Capital Resources.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Despite unprecedented and ongoing decline of freshwater resources, research and conservation related to freshwater ecosystems receive far less attention than those of terrestrial and marine realms. All in all, the NRAR investigated and finalized nearly 1,000 reports of breaches to the water laws. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. ON THE RADAR.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Central American nation has won praise for its conservation efforts, including in reforestation, and continues to attract international finance to support its initiatives. The Central American nation has secured more than US$135 million in finance for nature in recent years, another leaf in its conservation success story.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) preempts a local ordinance in Berkeley, California that prohibits most natural gas hook-ups to newly-constructed buildings. . The California Restaurant Association, an industry group, challenged Berkeley’s ordinance, arguing that it was preempted by both state and federal law.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – This week, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. Provincial and federal governments share the legal authority to protect the environment and conserve nature.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People — With Canada’s 2021 federal election just five weeks away, a coalition of 34 Canada’s leading environmental organizations are calling on everyone in Canada to vote on September 20 — and when they do, vote for a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2023

Remarkably, however, and despite the fact that the federal government negotiated two important 19th century treaties with the Navajo Nation, the U.S. government has never seen fit to expressly provide federal water rights to the Nation to make its expansive reservation fully habitable. Navajo Nation and U.S. Navajo Nation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Here are 48 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

I first wrote a version of this post way back in July 2021, when Ezra Klein dropped a couple of lines knocking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) into one of the op-eds The New York Times loves to perennially run about how California is actually the worst (I’m sorry it can’t be 80 degrees in March everywhere, guys).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 41 new articles by local news media and in the PA Environment Digest last week about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership!

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2022

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2022 Women In Conservation Awards Program to recognize excellence in conservation and to forge a stronger network of women who are deeply committed to working to protect Pennsylvania’s environment. This woman can be active in communities, business, government and science fields.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions? and Australia.

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Environmental Law Centre

JANUARY 27, 2022

Smith Solar Farm: Case Comment on Edmonton River Valley Conservation Coalition Society v Council of the City of Edmonton In August 2021, we released. Smith Solar Farm: Case Comment on Edmonton River Valley Conservation Coalition Society v Council of the City of Edmonton appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition?

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

State water managers and the federal government say they will include tribes in upcoming Colorado River policymaking negotiations for the first time. Like any government in the southwest, tribal nations see water as a cornerstone of growing their communities and local economies while supporting the livelihoods and well-being of their members.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 23, 2024

It seems like a no-brainer that the quarry proposal should be rejected under Ontario’s ESA, especially since the recovery plan for Blanding’s turtles requires the government “to maintain the presence of known Blanding’s turtle local populations where they occur”. Let’s hold our government accountable.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. So, to start to see some bright spots like Brazil is incredibly heartening. Gray: Yes, for sure. Gray: That’s right.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 8, 2021

Ontario government revokes MZO following pressure from local, environmental and Indigenous Groups. The area at Duffins Creek now returns to zoning laws applied by the City of Pickering and its status as an “urban reserve” with environmentally protective zoning is restored. ECOJUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ONTARIO NATURE.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Perhaps less obvious is the importance of state and local governments in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Source: CCST 2020.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — December 7, 2021. And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I If climate change forecasts prove accurate, the summer of 2021 was a dress rehearsal for the future. World of scarcity’.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Here are 35 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The permit was initially approved by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority under duress based on a Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO). . In March 2021, these environmental groups, supported by the Williams Treaties First Nations, filed an urgent stay motion on the immediate destruction of the wetland complex.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Here are 47 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Gov.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

First, it seeks to structure more flexible implementation support for subnational governments and communities for policy implementation and actions. The World Resources Institute (WRI) found that we lost 10% more tropical forest in 2022 than in 2021. Why the GCF Task Force?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Unfortunately, this conservation-oriented pairing is not the norm across the United States. To address the shortcoming, two efforts are under way to encourage farm owners and tenant farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region to place more conservation practices on leased farmland, an understudied and critical demographic in “save the Bay” efforts.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

These are people with real money at stake, unlike conservative politicians and talking heads. The Norwegian Government Pension Fund dropped the company from its portfolio because of environmental destruction from mining in Indonesia. In 2021, it release plans to spend $7.5

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. In 2021 the Arizona Department of Water Resources halted new residential home construction in Pinal County, south of Phoenix, because groundwater pumping exceeded the supply. .

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 13, 2021. Circumscribed in a body of law and policy known as the Law of the River, the math is complex and arcane, setting water deliveries across seven states and Mexico. And that is a conservative estimate, they warn. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It called for compensation from the government, and for Australia to take more aggressive measures to prevent climate change at the national and international levels. What’s next for climate and cultural rights?

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 10, 2022

Conservancy forester Kyle Smith takes measurements in the old-growth forest at TNC’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve in southwest Washington. Washington’s Conservation Futures program has allowed counties to permanently protect open space, farmland and forests, and to build and maintain parks and trails. But there’s still a lot happening!

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Since 2021, more than 26 informal recycling cooperatives have been supported with training on health, safety, labor laws and management, as well as enhanced income opportunities through this partnership.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Here are 41 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. PaEN] Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

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Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

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