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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

Circle of Blue

In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. They irrigate 570,000 acres, or roughly 100,000 acres more than in 2009, according to state figures. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009.

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The Overshoot Commission Addresses Geoengineering

Legal Planet

Like the experienced political leaders they are, the Commission simply took the fact of the controversy over field experiments as given, without going into the arguments over whether it makes any sense. So, what happens now?

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AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To 15 Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County

PA Environment Daily

This contamination led to multiple Dimock residents suffering from impacts to their own personal water supplies, including the explosion of Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well in January 2009. In order to supply their homes with this necessity, residents had to travel miles to pick up drinking water. Williams, Esq.,

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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

A Greener Life

Hence many soil scientists had for years been calling for a third survey, particularly those who are representatives to China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), or its top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPCCC). Forty years of change. Photo credit: Li Ga / Alamy.

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. In addition, the same political parties brought a similar case questioning how the government paralyzed the Amazon Fund ( PSB et al. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline.

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency surveyed more than 49,000 lakes across the country and found that 30 percent contained toxins produced by the blooms. Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. .

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 2.27.25

PA Environment Daily

TODAY 10:00: House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. TODAY 9:30: Senate Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 9:30 - Department of Agriculture. Click Here to watch live. House Floor. Click Here to watch online.