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Circle of Blue is informing the world’s most important decisions about water, food, and energy in a changing climate. To subscribe to our newsletters, visit: https://www.circleofblue.org/
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 4h
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to review a lower court’s determination that Georgia-Pacific, a paper company, is primarily responsible for the costs of cleaning up the Kalamazoo River Superfund site.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 5h
After the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars of EPA and USDA grants, two new Senate bills in Ohio seek to create food security and farmer training programs.

Fresh unpacks international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 5h
Wisconsin state legislators are deliberating a $42 million appropriation to a paper mill to restore a wooden, 100-year-old dam on the Wisconsin River.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 5h
The Ohio House approved a bill that would establish a statewide process for permitting and regulating carbon sequestration, an industry that has been shown to threaten drinking water resources.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 6h
Jane Goodall didn’t just study chimpanzees — she transformed conservation.
Her model protected forests, safeguarded clean water, and empowered communities across Africa.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 7h
As the Colorado River’s flow declines, hydropower from Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams is faltering — down by half since 2000. Across the Southwest, utilities are adapting by turning to solar, ensuring the lights stay on even as the water runs low.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 11h
Solar Growth Cushions Colorado River Hydropower Declines

In late May, as the outside temperature approached 100 degrees, Arizona’s top water policy officials gathered in an air-conditioned Phoenix conference room. Their purpose that day was to decide whether the state should extend a longstanding…
Solar Growth Cushions Colorado River Hydropower Declines
In late May, as the outside temperature approached 100 degrees, Arizona’s top water policy officials gathered in an air-conditioned Phoenix conference room. Their purpose that day was to decide whether the state should extend a longstanding drought emergency declaration. The standard indicators – minimal precipitation, low reservoirs, the second-hottest 12-month period on record – were not encouraging. Halfway through the 90-minute meeting, gallows humor lightened the mood.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
State Route 37: By 2100, the majority of the California highway is projected to sink beneath the rising San Pablo Bay between Novato and Vallejo, two towns just north of San Francisco.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
In Pakistan, ranked as one of the 10 most vulnerable nations to climate change, warmer seasons threaten an increased incidence of glacial lake outburst floods, or GLOFs. These happen when glacial lakes burst their rock or ice dams and inundate downstream areas.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
390,000 hectares of forest that have burned across Spain so far this year, while 280,000 hectares have been consumed in Portugal, according to data from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
47 people killed in torrential rains and subsequent flooding and landslides that ravaged multiple Mexican states near the Gulf Coast this week, multiple outlets report.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
In northern Pakistan, Indigenous knowledge is more trusted than the government’s warning systems in advance of glacial lake outburst floods.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
One-in-500 year forest fires on the Iberian Peninsula are now expected to occur every 13 years, adding significant strain to farmland and water resources.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
Deadly storms, landslides, and river surges killed dozens of people along Mexico’s Gulf Coast this weekend.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
Summer tourism in Argentina’s Patagonian villages is straining local treatment plants beyond capacity, resulting in raw sewage spilling into glacier-fed rivers.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 1d
Jane Goodall changed how the world thinks about conservation. Her community-led model protected forests, safeguarded clean water, and empowered people across Africa and beyond. Discover how her vision…

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 2d
An EPA report on the toxicity of PFNA – one of the thousands of PFAS in circulation – was ready to be published in mid-April, ProPublica reports. But the agency has not yet released it.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 2d
River Mile 53.1: Approximate location of the front of the saltwater “wedge” that is pushing up the Mississippi River, in southern Louisiana, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 2d
“Do not make American families pay the price for Trump’s war on affordable American energy.” – Sen. Martin Heinrich speaking on the Senate floor to rally votes to end President Trump’s national energy emergency.
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 2d
EPA sits on a “forever chemical” toxicity assessment, ProPublica finds.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 2d
Senate passes a defense spending authorization bill with water-related provisions.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 2d
A cold-water flow experiment at Glen Canyon Dam to disrupt non-native fish downstream will end within a week.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 2d
Army Corps, for fourth consecutive year, authorizes an underwater dam to keep salt water from moving up the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 6d
80% of residents living in villages along the Amazon River in Peru have hair samples showing mercury levels above safe limits defined by the World Health Organization, the Associated Press reports.

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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 6d
85% of South Sudan is reliant on subsistence agriculture for food.

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