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As Planet Warms, Water Risks Abound

Circle of Blue

Ahead of a high-profile UN conference, political forecasters issue water warnings. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – January 11, 2023. The World Economic Forum acknowledged once again that ecological shocks such as these reverberate mightily in politics and society. The Nile, cutting here through Cairo, is the heart of Egypt.

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California Enacts Major Water Law Reform Legislation–But More Changes Are Needed

Legal Planet

For a state that prides itself on innovative leadership when it comes to so many other areas of environmental and natural resource policy, California’s water rights law is sorely in need of modernization. However, the 2023 legislative session ended before either bill could be fully considered by the State Senate.

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California Adopts Nation-Leading Legislation to Cut Plastic Pollution

Legal Planet

The bill took key amendments in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Assemblymember Luz Rivas, including important details about the mitigation fee and its disbursement. And environmental groups held fast through the negotiations, refusing to compromise on a law that wouldn’t meet their core objectives.

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The USDA Has a Plan to Fix Our Nutrition Crisis—But Will It Work?

Union of Concerned Scientists

On the contrary, it relies on the routine exploitation of food and farm workers , heavy use of fossil fuels and chemicals that pollute the environment , and the degradation of soil and other natural resources that are critical to future production of healthy food. We need healthy and sustainable food systems.

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Energy transition and social sciences – How can environmental sociology help us expand the understanding of energy transitions?

HumanNature

Guest Post by Emilia Ravetta , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University The 2023 was the warmest year on record of history (World Meteorological Organization 2023). 2023 “Raw Materials and Society in Latin America”. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt.

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A Montana Victory for the Youth Climate Movement

Legal Planet

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. The current barriers to implementing renewable energy systems are not technical or economic, but social and political,” the decision says.  Is it a ‘game-changer’? that justified the harm. “The

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Tax Incentives Find New Purpose for Conserving Water in American West

Circle of Blue

Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user Michael Rael By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – March 9, 2023 The San Luis Valley, a high desert farming region in southern Colorado, is a land of daunting natural constraints, especially its scarce water reserves. Conservation easements protect the region’s depleted groundwater.