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Oroville Emergency a Warning for U.S. Dam Safety

The near-failure on Sunday evening of the auxiliary spillway at Oroville Dam and the ongoing emergency operations to contain flood waters in California’s second-largest reservoir and shore up its eroding outlet are a tale of caution for the nation’s aging dam fleet.

Finding Our Frontlines in Indigenous North Dakota: The Climate Justice Movement is Standing Up – A Special Issue of Earth News: More than News of the World

There is no doubt in my mind that this front in the epic struggle for global climate justice – and so much more – will be recognized in the future as a crucial epicenter, a ground zero, of our movement…

Big Banks Finance Water-Damaging, Climate-Warming Energy Projects

Some 338 gigawatts of new coal-fired electrical generation are under construction around the world, principally in Asia, according to a March study by CoalSwarm, a global network of researchers.

Popularity of Big Hydropower Projects Diminishes Around the World

Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.

Water-Related Risks Strand $Billions in Energy, Mining, Power Projects

More than a decade later economists and financial analysts are again identifying powerful signals of economic distress, this time in the energy, mining, power-producing, and farm industries.

Slowly, With Earth Pushing Hard, A Confederacy Of Concern Develops

Underlying so much of the economic and ecological turmoil unfolding before us is a slow collision between the operating practices of the resource-wasting, vertically-managed 20th century and the much more crowded, polluted, and dangerous ecological and economic conditions of the 21st century.

One Way to Ease California Drought: Recycle Wastewater For Irrigation

The signs of California’s mounting drought-related distress are moving west from the Sierras.

Water world – headlines

•How Power Generation Threatens Water Supplies, And Climate Change Threatens Both •Dry Fields, Dirty Water •The Thirsty West: What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas •World’s 18 Most Water-Stressed Rivers •Sandra Postel: Are Americans Facing Reality About Water?

An influential global voice warns of runaway emissions

Few international figures have been as consistent in warning about the threat posed by global warming as economist Fatih Birol, of the International Energy Agency. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Birol explains why the situation is worsening and what needs to be done to significantly slow emissions.

ODAC Newsletter – Oct 15

The US administration ended its moratorium on deepwater drilling this week seven weeks ahead of schedule. The lifting of the ban – put in place in the wake of the BP Macondo oil well explosion – was greeted with muted enthusiasm from the oil industry…

United States – May 23

Regional climate pact’s lesson: avoid big giveaways to industry
Raising The CAFE standard will increase driving
Green camo: seeing through the military’s new environmentalism
Looking at ‘spoiled’ Americans through an energy lens