Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. Weeks before the November 8 election, national political debate centers on control of Congress. Wilce is the treasurer of Arizona Water Defenders, the political action committee that brought the question to the ballot. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 23, 2022

Unsafe Yield – Severe drought, dead well, and political division push Arizona steadily closer to water supply peril. What’s Up With Water – March 22, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers a major settlement for Canada’s Indigenous communities and persisting drought in the Horn of Africa. In Recent Water News.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“There is no end in sight to the Vaal sewage pollution crisis, just a long trail of broken promises, lack of political will and lack of funding for the repairs to the Emfuleni wastewater treatment system.” – Save the Vaal Environment (SAVE) chair Maureen Stewart.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — May 23, 2022. Residents of Pir Koh staged several protests last week, demanding that the government declare a national emergency and fix the town’s ailing infrastructure. “We Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

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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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Water governance institutions of the past are not well-equipped to respond to the rapidly changing effects of climate change,” said Heikkila, the co-director of the Center for Policy and Democracy at the University of Colorado Denver. The time for more collective action at all scales of governance is here,” she said.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. By Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , Johan Rockström , and Tharman Shanmugaratnam — September 27, 2022. Photo © J.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. Governments, including COP28 host the United Arab Emirates, acknowledge this fact. What’s lacking is political will. Fossil fuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

September 20, 2022 . And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. The question has less to do with the environment, and more to do with political power, and its bearing on the age-old question of who pays the cost of pollution. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J. Keith Schneider.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

And “visceral political distrust,” particularly between leaders of majority-black cities and majority-white suburbs, further complicates consolidation, Teodoro said. Some water advocates have called for more financial help from state and federal governments. That’s declined to about $3 billion a year. That’s great for big systems.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

Photo © UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Mulugeta Ayene. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – April 20, 2022. Continued high food prices could produce a “tsunami effect” of famine, political destabilization, and mass migration. The Kenyan government estimates about 1.5 A global food price index reached a record high in March.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. What’s Up With Water—January 24, 2022 – This week’s episode covers a strategically important dam in Syria that was the target of a U.S.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 6, 2022

In Canada , the federal government will fund a multi-million-dollar water reservoir in a rural community plagued by water contamination. Water infrastructure investment decisions are far too important, with far too many consequences, to be used for brazenly political purposes in the lead up to an election.”. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 19, 2022

Action on climate change of all kinds needs to be right at the heart of government policy and programs.” – Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace UK. Announcing the report, the government told the Guardian that it is investing £5 billion in new flood defenses, and more than £750m on peat restoration, and woodland creation and management.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 8, 2022

May 18, 2022, 9 am CDT (In-person in Washington DC and online)Register here. The transition to a sustainable future continues to gain momentum, after decades of delay on climate action, and has risen to the top of the agenda across government, politics and business.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Groundwater use will total about 400 million to 500 million gallons annually, and local governments and citizen groups have objected. . Soaring water prices. Scorched desert towns. . Keith Schneider.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2022

Dry: A Weekly Western Drought Digest — August 2, 2022 — As of July 26, over 43 percent of the U.S. A government report last year found that the current strategy of replacing pipes on an “ad hoc” basis will not be sufficient to meet public health goals. The post The Stream, August 3, 2022: Millions At Risk Of Lead Exposure in the U.K.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2022

What’s Up With Water–August 23, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers a potential catastrophic winter storm in California and new research that revealed what may be causing high case numbers of pediatric cancer in Pennsylvania. An Arizona agricultural coalition proposes the federal government pay farmers to conserve water.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

April 27, 2022. Many rural water districts rely on distribution systems that have not been updated for decades due to lack of funds or political will. . Although residents are banding together to voice their concerns to government officials, trust in government response is low. water systems are aging.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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APRIL 19, 2022

This move leads to approximately 6,000 to 13,000 fewer premature deaths, more than 140,000 fewer cases of asthma exacerbation, and 700,000 fewer workdays lost to illness from 2022 to 2040 compared to current policies and plans. What we need now is political will to make this transition happen and ensure that its benefits reach us all.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – March 1, 2022. Vulnerability is higher in high-poverty areas, in countries with poor government, and in farming and fishing communities that are more exposed to climate change. A woman reaches for a hose from a water tanker in Rajasthan, India. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is noteworthy not because it contains anything new (it doesn’t), but because despite clearly violating the established standards of good scientific practice, it was published by a government agency. But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. The end of the 2021-2022 Legislative Session saw notable legislation on climate, heat, clean energy, water, and land use become law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improving the communication networks between science, government, and the public needs creative and effective strategies at multiple levels, and engagement from all participants. We have done this at the state level for the 2022 NY state elections , and at the local level for current NY City Hall elections.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — April 14, 2022. A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We grew up here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 26, 2022

And as much as I enjoy working with the commissioner, I think it’s better for everyone if the federal government doesn’t make these tough decisions.” — Sen. A water conveyance through or around the delta has been a point of conflict in state water politics since the 1970s. government water policy. By the Numbers. $23

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 4, 2022. As many as 925,000 acre-feet could be part of the current deal, about half or a quarter of the total cuts the federal government is seeking. The states, tribes, and federal government will have to not only rebalance water supply and demand, but also address the shrinking Salton Sea.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

September 2022 will mark five years since the destruction and misery caused by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, and the National Weather Service is forecasting a very active and dangerous hurricane season for 2022. They have built their support network—the one that the government does not provide—and they have built it themselves.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Source: ERM 2022 ). Source: ERM 2022 ). At least four separate studies took a look at whether or not there was an observable pre-buy.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2022

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — January 31, 2022. The root of these diverse challenges is, at least in part, political and institutional. Pollution and poor sanitation are linked to the country’s staggering child stunting rates, which affect 35 percent of children under age 5. Jakarta’s descent is literal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2014, CAISO launched the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM), a real-time energy market for the West that as of 2022 included 19 participants. This is especially useful when dealing with transmission across state lines that can often face political and financial obstacles. Governance would expand beyond state borders.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts. The simple fact that the government refers to FERC’s permitting authority as a “ backstop ” means that we shouldn’t look to FERC to meet our expectations for transmission investments to enable a clean energy future.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. It called for compensation from the government, and for Australia to take more aggressive measures to prevent climate change at the national and international levels.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What’s more, new relationships between government and local agencies had to be formed. Kristina Surfus is the managing director of government affairs for the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, a trade group for wastewater utilities.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. SEC Armadillo, Glasgow. By Finlay McWalter at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency.

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