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

Legal Planet

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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PublicSource.org: July 9 Learn The Story Behind The Story - EQT's Gas Play In Pennsylvania, West Virginia

PA Environment Daily

Pittsburgh gas giant EQT pledges to tackle climate change and flexes political muscle. Communities in its frack path, though, face stark realities.

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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 1992, after five years of research, China decided to cooperate with Russia on the construction of an experimental fast reactor (CEFR), with the ultimate goal of pursuing a closed nuclear fuel cycle —a process in which spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed and recycled to extract usable materials for further energy production. billion in 2023.

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

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. Soaring water prices.

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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

Environmental Progress

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. 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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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.1.23

PA Environment Daily

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What’s Up With Water — June 21, 2022

Circle of Blue

That means reducing global phosphorus pollution by 50 percent and increasing phosphorus recycling by 50 percent – both by the year 2050. Reuters reports that Anglo American intends to shift to desalinated water and recycled water for mining operations at Los Bronces by 2030.

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