Yale E360

MARCH 25, 2021

A mine tailings dam planned for a seismically unstable area of Sumatra’s rainforest would be at high risk of failure, experts warn. The dam’s collapse would be a disaster, they say, releasing a wall of slurry that would engulf and bury Indigenous villages and their inhabitants. Read more on E360 ?.

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Montrose

MARCH 25, 2021

March 24, 2021 – WASHINGTON – Today, the American Biogas Council (ABC) Board of Directors announced the re-election of its officers, including incumbent Chair Bernard Sheff, PE from Montrose Environmental Group , who was elected to a fourth term. In addition to Sheff, Bryan Sievers of Sievers Family Farms/ AgriReNew and Randy Beck of Waste Management were re-elected as co-Vice Chairs; Melissa VanOrnum of DVO was re-elected to Treasurer; Dr.

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Environment, Law, and History

MARCH 25, 2021

Last year's The Americas published an article by Christopher Woolley, "'The Forests Cannot be Commons': Spanish Law, Environmental Change, and New Spain's Council on Forests". The abstract: This article examines the sylvan political ecology of late colonial New Spain and the colonial government's attempt to address deforestation through the Council on Forests, the first body in the kingdom's history dedicated to the conservation of natural resources.

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