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

Circle of Blue

“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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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

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

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District v. Mayorkas , No. July 19, 2021).

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Policy News: July 18, 2022

ESA

The bill includes provisions creating a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency fellowship program for early career scientists and protecting public lands in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. House Natural Resources Committee: The full committee voted to advance a bill ( H.R. Executive Branch. International.

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Policy News: October 8, 2021

ESA

Jared Huffman (D-CA), who a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee, is a co-sponsor of this bill. Senate Natural Resources Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the America’s Revegetation and Carbon Sequestration Act ( S. The bill authorizes the U.S.

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