Equilibrium & Sustainability
The consequences of a “snow drought” are still affecting some areas of the West, following a period of warm and dry weather last month that caused the snow to melt faster, according to federal meteorologists. Although California’s Sierra Nevada has gotten enough snow this season to avoid being labeled as such, the same cannot be said for regions in the northern Rocky…
A group of thirty-six law professors from different parts of the country are urging a Utah district court to hold the state accountable for the decreasing water levels in the Great Salt Lake. They submitted an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by conservation groups.
Rising US demand for electricity is being met almost entirely by renewables, a new federal report has found. The new numbers from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggest that the U.S. isn’t moving fast enough to reach the Biden administration’s climate targets. It also cast doubt on a key rationale for a proposed national buildout in…
The adoption of electric cars in the Bay Area has resulted in a small but consistent decrease in carbon dioxide emissions, the study found. The researchers documented a 2.6 percent annual decline in vehicle emissions using an air quality monitoring network that was established in the area more than ten years ago.
Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces 1.03 megatons — more than 1.03 billion kilograms, or 2.3 billion pounds — of carbon dioxide emissions each year, a new study has found. Almost 90 percent of these emissions can be linked to transportation to and from the destination, according to the study, published on Wednesday in PLOS Climate.…
A judge in a federal district court has given the last go-ahead to a multi-billion-dollar settlement between public water providers impacted by persistent chemicals and the company 3M, as announced by the parties on Monday. Under the conditions of the deal, the chemical maker based in Minnesota will give these water suppliers from $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion, based on how much contamination there is and…
Nearly half of American prisons are located downstream from water sources that are likely contaminated with cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” a new study has found. Due to insufficient water quality testing in and around such sites, officials have only found that 5 percent of U.S. carceral institutions are situated in watersheds that definitively contain these toxic…
Texas and New Mexico had a court showdown with the US government on Wednesday in the ongoing ten-year disagreement about how to divide the water from the decreasing Rio Grande river. The Supreme Court listened to arguments about whether an agreement made by the two states, along with Colorado,…
Texas’s public schools are withdrawing billions of dollars that had been invested with asset manager BlackRock — a firm the state accused of boycotting fossil fuels. On Tuesday, Aaron Kinsey (R), head of the state board of education, announced that his agency was withdrawing $8.5 billion from management by BlackRock. The company’s “dominant…
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