The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
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Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
Selling the right-wing news network might cool the family tensions, and it would capitalise on the network’s market value.
The media mogul has failed to have his “irrevocable” family trust changed in favour of his eldest son, Lachlan. But the family drama still has a long way to play out.
Union voters are particularly significant in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada, three swing states where the share of voters who belong to unions is above average.
From one perspective, Nevada’s political history is balanced. From another, it’s s pendulum swinging back and forth as people split their votes across party lines.
The star of the 1920s silver screen who appears on Taylor Swift’s new album abruptly left Hollywood at the height of her success – a middle finger to the men whom she had made rich and powerful.
An estimated 95% of US cities provide economic development tax incentives to woo corporate investors, taking billions away from schools.
Should Canadian hockey fans be frustrated with the success of non-traditional hockey markets at the expense of Canadian teams?
Southwest states have bought time with an agreement between California, Arizona and Nevada to cut Colorado River water use by about 14%. Now comes the hard part.
Reservoirs and streams are in good shape in California and the Great Basin, but groundwater and ecosystems are another story. And then there’s the Colorado River Basin.
The Colorado River provides water and electricity to 40 million people in the western US, but falling water levels threaten both of those resources.
Agreements negotiated a century ago to share water on Western rivers among states are showing their age in a time of water scarcity.
A long-expected federal drought declaration underlines how serious the Colorado River water shortage has become for Western states.
The Supreme Court recently dealt defeat to Florida in its 20-year legal battle with Georgia over river water. Other interstate water contests loom, but there are no sure winners in these lawsuits.
What did this year’s election maps rightly or wrongly tell us?
An ugly spat involving some supporters of Bernie Sanders harkens back to old tropes about the labor movement. But the Culinary is showing itself to be a model for unions in the ‘right-to-work’ era.
States are folding the social and economic costs of burning fossil fuels into their electricity policies, giving utilities a financial incentive to reduce greenhouse emissions.
If recent history repeats itself, the proposed repository for extremely dangerous nuclear waste will stay dead.
With leagues lobbying for their share, a thriving illegal market that needs to be stifled, and bettors chomping at the bit, the headaches are just beginning.
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature, Queen's University Belfast
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Western Regional Director, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University
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Freelance Reporter and Editor, The Conversation
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Archivist, Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University
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Professor of Law, Director of UNLV Workplace Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Associate Research Professor in Climatology, Desert Research Institute
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Guelph
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Professor of Education Policy & Law; Director of the National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Boulder