I realize that most LGM readers don't spend a lot of time thinking about western natural resource politics. But these issues are central to understanding the politics of the West,.
In the spirit of cap and trade, the government has decided its misfounded belief that the free market can be used to solve environmental problems should be applied to water.
Who are the biggest water hogs in California? Well, in the Bay Area, the worst is a Chevron exec. Second is some venture capitalist. You'd expect these two types to.
Laura Bliss has been writing an excellent series on the struggles of unincorporated communities in the San Joaquin Valley. The latest is on the inability of many of these communities.
This is kind of disturbing. A decade after Hurricane Katrina, three separate engineering teams have concluded that the only way to save New Orleans from future hurricane damage by building.
That collecting rainwater on your own property in barrels remains illegal in Colorado is a great entry point into the complex and extraordinarily contentious water politics of the West, where.
Karen Piper has written a powerful book about how water privatization threatens people around the world. Connecting the subject to the world's colonial past, she demonstrates how a handful of.
Nothing motivates the LGM readership like the relationship between agriculture and riparian ecosystems so let's start this Saturday morning with me recommending you read this report from the Chesapeake Bay.
