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Western Energy Markets Could Soon Be Governed Differently. Here’s Why That Matters.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier today, the Launch Committee of the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative voted to approve its proposal for independent governance of western energy markets. Now, if you’re wondering what the Pathways Initiative is, what the governance proposal is all about, and why any of this even matters, then you’re in the right place.

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The “Silver Bullet” Required to Improve California’s Water Rights System: More & Better Data

Legal Planet

One post focused on the federal government’s successful criminal prosecution of a San Joaquin Valley water district manager who illegally diverted millions of gallons of water from the government’s Central Valley Project for more than two decades.

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Alberta’s New Committee on Tar Sands Tailings is Too Little, Too Late 

Enviromental Defense

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Any credible solution to the toxic tailings problem starts with replacing the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) with an effective and fair regulator that works in the public interest, not for the industry it is intended to regulate. times the size of the city of Vancouver. Less than 0.1

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EPA Strengthens Emissions Controls for Facilities Emitting Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized updated regulations for certain facilities that emit ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless, cancer-causing gas. For the first time, the government will regulate fugitive or “unintended” emissions and require permanent total enclosure of sterilization operations.

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NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater, Other Waste

PA Environment Daily

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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As a Hot, Dry Summer Begins in California, More Water Wells Are Failing

Circle of Blue

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. Counties, not the state, regulate new wells. It is trying to reach people who might be leery of government intervention.

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What is being built in the WUI?

Legal Planet

In this blog post, we summarize our research on how some local governments in California are regulating development in high fire areas. But a majority of the housing units that San Diego County approved in 2014-17 were in those areas. The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here.

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