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Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Climate Change Means Shortfalls in Colorado River Water Deliveries
EMBARGOED BY PNAS: FOR RELEASE ON Monday, April 20, 2009 02:00 PM PDT: Climate Change Means Shortfalls in Colorado River Water Deliveries: Scripps researchers find that currently scheduled water deliveries from the Colorado River are unlikely to be met if human-caused climate change reduces run1off in the region. The Colorado River system supplies water to tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland, and has never experienced a delivery shortage. But if human-caused climate change continues to make the region drier, scheduled deliveries will be missed 60-90 percent of the time by the middle of this century, according to a pair of climate researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.... Read More
4/3/2012 Blog posting by Wenona Benally Baldenegro: Senators Seek to Extinguish Navajo & Hopi Water Rights
Senators Seek to Extinguish Navajo & Hopi Water Rights by Wenona Benally Baldenegro, April 3, 2012 at 9:53pm. S.2109 and the “Settlement Agreement” require Navajo and Hopi to give Peabody Coal Mining Company and the Salt River Project and other owners of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) tens of thousands of acre-feet of Navajo and Hopi water annually – without any compensation – and to force the extension of Peabody and NGS leases without Navajo and Hopi community input, or regard for past and continuing harmful impacts to public health, water supplies and water quality – as necessary pre-conditions to Navajo and Hopi receiving Congressional appropriations for minimal domestic water development. This is coercive and wrong... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, coal mining, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Generating Station, Peabody Coal Company, Water
Tagged coal mining, Hopi Tribe, injury to water, Navajo Generating Station, Navajo Nation, Peabody Coal Company, water rights, Wenonna Benally
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11/8/2011 FP congratulates Robert Sabie, WWU – EPA Announces Winners of Apps for the Environment Challenge
Forgotten People congratulates Robert Sabie, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University. 11/8/2011 EPA Announces Winners of Apps for the Environment Challenge WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the winners of its Apps for the Environment challenge, which encouraged new and innovative uses of EPA’s data to create apps that address environmental and public health issues. Developers from across the country created apps with information about everything from energy efficient light bulbs to local air quality. A few even developed games to help people learn environmental facts.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, coal mining, Colorado River, drought, environmental justice, government accountability, Grand Canyon, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo Generating Station, Nuclear power, Peabody Coal Company, radioactive waste, skyline mine, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water, Water and Sanitation
Tagged coal mining, contaminated water, EPA, EPA Apps for the Environment Challenge, GIS mapping, Huxley College of the Environment, Mapping, Professor Troy Abel, Robert Sabie, uranium contamination, uranium mining, US EPA, Western Washington University
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