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“We Can’t Have Land Back Without Water Back”

Circle of Blue

Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. This nexus motivates Bernal to emphasize water rights in her activism.

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The Winding Path of Australian Climate Policy

Legal Planet

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. So the change in government was more than welcome. As in the U.S.,

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

CNRL is a member of the Pathways Alliance – a tar sands lobby group that is trying to rebrand this polluting industry as a clean one while pushing back against government climate action behind closed doors. He spent years giving encouragement for the federal government to approve and build the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project.

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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% The cooperation was extended in December 2016. U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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What Makes the College-Educated More Likely to Vote?

Union of Concerned Scientists

For a healthy democracy made up of educated and active voters, it would help to better understand the connection between educational attainment and political engagement, and ways to overcome this contradiction. Other on-campus factors beyond one-time events also contribute to increased student voter turnout.

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Environmental Law Again Front-and-Center at California Supreme Court

Legal Planet

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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New England Climate Leadership: Signs of Holes and Hope

Union of Concerned Scientists

Source: UCS, Toward Climate Resilience, 2016. State and local governments must at the same time implement policies that reduce heat trapping emissions, thereby helping to slow the pace of climate change, and implement policies– to which we are already committed –that prepare us for the impacts of a changing climate.