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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

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In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. The Idaho capital wants to begin recycling wastewater for industrial use and divert a portion of the recycled water to replenish its aquifer.

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What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021

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They are vital for recycling moisture from land to air and back again. Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

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AB 2101 expands carbon sequestration projects to include whole orchard recycling (onsite grinding or chipping of whole trees during orchard removal for use in topsoil). SB 1205 protects water access by requiring the state to develop regulations considering climate change effects on water availability for water rights permits.

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California Adopts Nation-Leading Legislation to Cut Plastic Pollution

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Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

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At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

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Those trends, in turn, also are prompting innovations in community design and installation of expensive infrastructure to use less fresh water and recycle more wastewater. Bernalillo County required the developer to install expensive wastewater treatment and recycling infrastructure to reduce water use and waste.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.30.21

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Begins Detaining Solar Panel Imports Over Concerns About Forced Labor In China PA Politics -- Inquirer: Mask & Vaccine Mandates Have Broad Support, Polls Show, But Some PA Republicans Are Campaigning Against Them -- PG: Breakthrough COVID Cases Rising, Experts In PA, U.S.