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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EPA Emissions Tool, Nuclear Loans, 2nd Coal Ash Leak

February 19, 2014 by Tamar Wilner

The EPA has released the AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool (AVERT), designed to help state air quality planners estimate the emissions benefits of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. According to the EPA, AVERT “aims to address a key reason states have not implemented previous EE/RE State Implementation Plan guidance.” North ... Read more »

Water Markets ‘Could Reduce Drought Costs’

February 14, 2014February 19, 2014 by Tamar Wilner

The creation of water trading in California could help reduce the costs of drought, a group of professors and non-profit fellows have argued. The authors – including Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California – say that in the past, drought pressures have led ... Read more »

Funding for Farmers to Combat Drought Effects

February 6, 2014February 5, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The USDA has made $20 million available to California ranchers and farmers to fund agricultural water conservation to combat the effects of the statewide drought. Farmers and ranchers have until March 3 to apply. The funding is part of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to ... Read more »

Obama: End Fossil Fuel Tax Breaks, Invest in ‘Fuels of the Future’

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

President Barack Obama highlighted natural gas and other “fuels of the future” in his State of the Union address last night during which he pledged to set new efficiency standards for trucks and “cut red tape” to help businesses build factories that use natural gas. Businesses plan to invest about ... Read more »

From Farms to Ski Resorts, Calif. Businesses Hurting from Drought

January 23, 2014 by Leon Walker

The historic drought in California is hurting businesses from ski resorts to farms and utilities. Some public power agencies in California could be financially pressured this year by the ongoing drought’s impact on hydropower production, according to rating agency Fitch. While the financial impact for utilities is expected to be ... Read more »

Drought Brings Water Rationing

January 2, 2014January 17, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

With December 2013 ending without rainfall, California’s driest year on record is hurting crops and cattle and will likely cause more water rationing in 2014. Ranchers are being forced to spend on hay and molasses this dry winter; usually cattle graze on green pastures during the rainy months, the San ... Read more »

Fracking Uses Less Water Than Coal Plants, Study Says

December 27, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Transitioning from coal to natural gas in Texas for electricity generation is saving water and making the state less vulnerable to drought, according to a University of Texas at Austin study published this month in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Even though exploration for natural gas through hydraulic fracturing requires ... Read more »

WRI Ranks Countries’ Water Stress

December 13, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Thirty-seven countries face “extremely high” levels of water stress, using more than 80 percent of their available water supply every year, according to the World Resources Institute’s water stress rankings. This means that more than 80 percent of the water available to agricultural, domestic and industrial users is withdrawn annually, ... Read more »

How to Conserve Water Using Demand Management

December 3, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Despite a 500 percent population increase since 1957, Arizona’s water use has stayed the same with demand management — a water management strategy that involves policies that help control consumer demand without specifically asking consumers to use less water, says Klaus Reichardt, CEO and founder of Waterless Co., manufacturer of ... Read more »

Driest Year on Record Hurts California Agriculture

December 2, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

California’s $44.7 billion agriculture industry is hurting from the state’s driest year on record, which has prompted state water officials to tell San Joaquin Valley farmers that they will likely only receive 5 percent of the water they were expecting for next year, Reuters reports. The drought is made worse ... Read more »

Xanterra Cuts National Parks’ Water Use, Pledges 25% Reduction by 2015

November 19, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

National park concessioner Xanterra Parks & Resorts has implemented several water-conservation initiatives at its properties as part of its goal to reduce water use by 25 percent from 2003 levels by 2015. In Yellowstone National Park where the company operates nine lodges along with restaurants, stores and activities, Xanterra installed ... Read more »

IHS evolvoing water management practices

Unconventional E&P ‘$8 Billion of US Water Services Market’

November 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Limited available water resources, drought and increasing water-use demands from all segments of the economy is driving water management issues to the forefront of US exploration and production (E&P) operations’ considerations and accounts for $8 billion in spending for water services in US unconventional oil and gas plays, according to ... Read more »

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