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The New NEPA: A User’s Guide

Legal Planet

debt, the Builder Act (Title III of Division C of the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act) amended and dramatically expanded the provisions in NEPA dealing with environmental impact statements. Notably, the Builder Act creates deadlines for completion of environmental documents and limits their length.

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Arizona’s Future Water Shock

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It is also marketing water that it stores in aquifers to willing suburbs and subdivision builders interested in long-term leases. . In 1995, the law set in place a consumer protection measure to require subdivision builders to assure buyers that their homes within an AMA had a 100-year supply of water.

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Reuse it!

Academy of Natural Sciences

The Resource Exchange operates a shop, gallery and workshop space and redirects donated items to artists, builders, educators and the general public. The Academy offers suggestions below on where to start your reuse journey. Fast fashion is quickly becoming a major source of landfill waste. Credit: Hannah Morgan/Unsplash.

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Does anyone remember consensus?

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To the environmental community, improved agency funding for water quality and land conservation programs added to the strength of environmental agency programs to protect vital resources. It created a board of directors half of whom were from the business community and the other half from leading not-for-profit environmental groups.

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Unsafe Yield

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A 2018 study by the Arizona Department of Water Resources found that groundwater levels dropped 300 feet since 1950 in one basin. It also established a new state agency, the Arizona Department of Water Resources, to administer the law. . It’s a resource all of us need.”. In other places it is declining 10 feet annually.

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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

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courtesy of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources. Another neighbor told ProPublica she had asked a builder to assess the cost of constructing a nearly identical home and got an estimate $60,000 higher than what Homestake offered. This April, Homestake staff indicated they had 123 properties left to buy.

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