Tag: Nevada
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Landmark Ruling Rejects Disastrous Water Diversion Project in Nevada and Utah
In a landmark decision released yesterday, Senior Judge Robert Estes of the Seventh Judicial District Court of Nevada rejected the Nevada state engineer’s 2011 allocation of approximately 84,000 acre-feet of ancient groundwater a year to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for export to Las Vegas. The decision is a huge blow to the Water Authority’s…
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The Next Chapter in Colorado’s Water Supply Crisis
“This water developer plan openly and publicly defies Governor Hickenlooper’s directive to ‘start every discussion about water with conservation’ and would basically ignite the next water war in the Southwest U.S.”
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Historic Water Shortages Prompt Government Restrictions in Colorado River Basin
Water users in the parched Southwest U.S. were just hit with a devastating warning.
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills Advance Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda in 2013
ALEC bills in recent years have pulled states out of regional climate initiatives, opposed carbon dioxide emission standards, created hurdles for state agencies attempting to regulate pollution and tried to stop …
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Top 12 States Leading the U.S. in Solar Power
The report emphasizes that it is not availability of sunlight that makes states solar leaders, but the degree to which state and local governments have created effective public policy for the development of the solar industry …