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Can we govern large-scale green infrastructure for multiple water benefits?

Legal Planet

In a recently published paper , we explore the emerging possibilities of green infrastructure through a governance lens, focusing on large scale implementation. Our findings suggest that LSGI projects face intertwined governance challenges that flow from their core strength: LSGI’s multi-benefit nature. Cano Pecharroman et al.

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PA Sea Grant/DEP: Pennsylvania Lake Erie Environmental Forum Webinar Set For Nov. 19

PA Environment Daily

This webinar is for anyone interested in environmental science, sustainability, policy, groundwater, climate change, and the Lake Erie watershed.

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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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CLEE’s New Executive Director

Legal Planet

She is an MIT grad who went to Berkeley for graduate school, where earned a master’s degree in environmental engineering and a PhD from ERG. ERG — more formally the Energy and Resources Group — is Berkeley’s unique, interdisciplinary program spanning economics and social science, environmental science, and engineering.

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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Penn State Extension Center For Agricultural Assistance Training Recognizes Sen. Martin, Sen. Yaw For Ag Conservation Leadership

PA Environment Daily

Best management practices implemented by farmers and local governments are showing results, according to the legislators. The establishment of the Fund coincided with creation of the Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program (ACAP) , which has become one of the most successful initiatives of its kind.

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HotSpots H2O: Unusually Powerful ‘Atmospheric River’ Pummels British Columbia and Pacific Northwest

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Krystal Babcock, a resident of Merritt, British Columbia, was unable to leave her home when t he government ordered residents to evacuate on Monday, staying back to care for her elderly parents who could not leave. It might be the most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history. The sheer intensity of the flood left her in shock.