Dec 23, 2024 | The Landscape Podcast, Westwise Blog
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSSKate and Aaron talk to Chris Clarke, host of the 90 Miles from Needles podcast, about the Cadiz pipeline project, a water mining project that poses a huge threat to the...
Apr 25, 2024 | Look West Newsletter
The Biden administration is advancing a rule to ensure cleaner water for Tribes and protect their rights to aquatic resources like fish and plants. The new EPA rule, first proposed in 2022, requires federal and state governments to account for Tribal reserved...
Jan 31, 2024 | Look West Newsletter
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, used a machine learning model to predict which surface waters and wetlands were federally regulated in order to help answer a long-standing question: What does the Clean Water Act actually protect? The original...
Sep 11, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
As the Bureau of Reclamation works toward a 2026 plan for managing the Colorado River, a scenario that has long been favored by environmental advocates but dismissed as impossible is now being discussed across the West: draining Lake Powell and returning Glen Canyon...
Aug 30, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army have proposed a new definition of “waters of the United States” in order to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. EPA. In the May 2023 ruling, the Supreme...