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Calif drought: Brown admin stick with strict conservation targets, despite court ruling
Posted by Mercury News: Paul Rogers and Howard Mintz on April 22nd, 2015
Mercury News: Gov. Jerry Brown is sticking to his statewide mandatory water conservation targets, his administration said Tuesday, even as a new appeals court ruling limits the ability of cities and water districts to hit people with punishing rates to encourage them to save water.
"The court's decision is bad," said Michael Lauffer, chief counsel at the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento of the Monday ruling by an Orange County appellate court. "It's going to frustrate some local agencies' abilities...
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Comments Off on Calif drought: Brown admin stick with strict conservation targets, despite court rulingObama visits Everglades to talk about climate change – goad Republicans to do likewise
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 22nd, 2015
Washington Post: President Obama will visit an ecologically sensitive national park on Wednesday in a politically sensitive state.
Obama’s Earth Day trip to the Florida Everglades will be accompanied by historical dedications -- the Miami home of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who famously called the Everglades a “river of grass” -- and much talk of the value of national parks -- a new National Parks Service report documents their value to the economy.
But the political context is unmistakable: Obama’s climate change-focused...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Obama visits Everglades to talk about climate change – goad Republicans to do likewiseAt Everglades, Obama to warn of damage from climate neglect
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 22nd, 2015
Washington Post: With swampy wetlands and alligators as his backdrop, President Barack Obama will use a visit to Florida’s Everglades to warn of the damage that climate change is already inflicting on the nation’s environmental treasures -- and to hammer political opponents he says are doing far too little about it.
Obama’s trip to the Everglades on Wednesday, timed to coincide with Earth Day, marks an attempt to connect the dots between theoretical arguments about carbon emissions and real-life implications....
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on At Everglades, Obama to warn of damage from climate neglectStudy finds low cost in reducing methane emissions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 22nd, 2015
New York Times: Reducing methane leaks from oil and gas operations around the world could provide a relatively inexpensive way to fight climate change, according to a new report commissioned by the Environmental Defense Fund.
The amount of methane that escaped worldwide in 2012 was roughly 3.6 billion cubic feet and would have been worth $30 billion on the market, said Kate Larsen, a director of the Rhodium Group, which produced the study. A country that produced that amount of gas would rank seventh in the world,...
Obama to use Everglades trip to press climate agenda
Posted by New York Times: Michael D. Shear and Coral Davenport on April 22nd, 2015
New York Times: President Obama on Wednesday will make his first visit while in office to the Florida Everglades, choosing the backyard of a former Republican governor of the state, Jeb Bush, and its Republican senator, Marco Rubio, to demand action on climate change in a critical battleground in the 2016 presidential election. Officially, Mr. Obama will be commemorating the 45th Earth Day with a series of announcements, including the designation of a national historic landmark at the home of the environmentalist...