Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 14, 2024
By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 11, 2023
Ahead of a high-profile UN conference, political forecasters issue water warnings. The World Economic Forum acknowledged once again that ecological shocks such as these reverberate mightily in politics and society. Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, recently published its risk watch-list for 2023. Water still matters.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 21, 2024
F]ull implementation will likely result in ten-fold increase in political hires. Political loyalists would take their place. Schedule F will reach well into agency middle management and impact many experienced and knowledgeable career civil servants with management, science, technical and other specialized expertise. [F]ull
Legal Planet
JUNE 23, 2022
Penalver and Spitz conclude that, at best, rights of nature might help in the rhetorical context. And indeed, many of the claims that might be raised on behalf of natural entities already can be raised by humans directly, based on evidence that the human uses and enjoys the relevant natural resource.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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. Compared to most other states, California has a fragmented and inefficient water rights system.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy. This research is suggestive, but my impression is that there is a lot we still don’t know about political psychology. The combination of authoritarianism, extreme conservative ideology, and anti-environmentalism is common globally, not just in U.S.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 20, 2024
“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Contact: Lucas Hershey, luchershey@pa.gov.
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