Mark Olalde
@MarkOlalde
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I report: @ProPublica. I teach: @Cronkite_ASU.
Joined January 2011
I returned to Cima Dome yesterday to pay my respects for the first time since I watched its famous Joshua tree forest burn in 2020. @NatlParkService estimates 1.3 million Joshua trees died in the 43,273-acre wildfire. Walking in the scorched forest, it felt like a graveyard.
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🚨 zombie wells alert 🚨. “In sampling 2,573 wells in the Greater Wattenberg…the study found natural gas outside the protective barrier in 96% of the wells and benzene and other chemicals…The likely causes…are compromised steel casings or cement seals.”.
coloradosun.com
Colorado regulators say the subset of oil and gas wells tested were known to be troubled, and many have already been plugged and abandoned.
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Salton Sea news: Samantha Arthur of Audubon California will be the state’s next Salton Sea czar👇🏼.
On #WorldWaterDay2023, great news🗞️ as @CAgovernor appoints Samantha Arthur to lead our efforts to stabilize the #SaltonSea. She has delivered complex env restoration projects across California & has served our Water Commission. A seasoned leader for this critical priority! 1/2
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"Building codes can either accelerate local carbon emission reductions or lock in fossil fuel infrastructure. When code changes nibble at utilities’ market share, however, the corporations bite back.". @npbowlin/@highcountrynews chews on the meaning of @atmosenergy's opposition.
My town in Colorado tried to electrify its building codes. A large natural gas utility thought otherwise, fighting the proposal in public and behind the scenes at city hall. Other towns in the West have run into similar opposition. For @highcountrynews .
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"The answers the company did give raise concerns that its YieldStar software may play a role in driving rent inflation in some of the country’s biggest markets.". an update to incredibly important reporting on @RealPage by @hvogell/@propublica 👇.
propublica.org
After a ProPublica investigation, RealPage answered questions from lawmakers about its product. In response, the senators sent a letter to the Justice Department.
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RT @elpasotimes: #BREAKING: President Joe Biden will set Castner Range in El Paso as national monument
elpasotimes.com
Castner Range, located on Fort Bliss and within the Chihuahuan desert along the Rio Grande, is the ancestral homeland of Comanche and Apache people.
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No lies detected.
*this kicker tho* “I think a lot the allure of this type of program is it’s easier to talk about how do we get more than to talk about who has to use less."
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Although, with Gorsuch's understanding of federal law in Indian Country, and with Coney Barrett trying to stick to the actual question at hand, perhaps the all-important Winters Doctrine will emerge unscathed, which would be a huge relief to Native American tribes.
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"Justice Amy Coney Barrett could be the decisive vote in a US Supreme Court dispute about what steps, if any, the federal government must take to help the Navajo Nation deal with a southwest water crisis.". Meanwhile, Kavanaugh is commenting on water issues not before the court.
Individuals on the Navajo reservation use seven gallons of water a day compared to an average individual use of 88 to 100 gallons nationwide, the tribe’s lawyer told the justices.
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RT @janetwilson66: Chatted #lithium and other renewables with @CAGovernor Newsom today, who's unfazed by bank collapses, rural blowback. "W….
desertsun.com
"We're as dumb as we want to be," he said of rural communities' opposition to major solar, wind projects slicing through their backyards.
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RT @ElyssaCherney: 🧵1/ NEW with @smmills1960: The Art Institute of Chicago is slow to address concerns that religious artifacts from South….
chicagobusiness.com
Evidence suggests several pieces in a key Art Institute collection may have been looted from Nepal, including a necklace offered to a Hindu goddess in the 17th century.
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RT @insideclimate: The first full @IPCC_CH update since 2014 shows that the 1.5 degree Celsius goal established in the Paris agreement is s….
insideclimatenews.org
National governments haven’t done nearly enough to stop global warming in the seven years since they signed the Paris Climate Agreement, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in a...
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RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Earth is likely to cross a critical global warming threshold within the next decade unless drastic changes are….
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RT @lawrencehurley: NEW: In Navajo Nation, many don't have access to piped water, just one difficulty facing the tribe in a quest for water….
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Now THAT is one way to spend taxpayer dollars….
Some AZ-specific findings:.- AZ spent >$1M fighting covering transition-related care for state employees .- AZ’s internal analysis found the cost of covering the care was “relatively low”.- AZ’s state health plan covers THE SAME surgeries for cis people.
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RT @utilityreporter: Utility @SRPconnect is proposing a pumped storage reservoir near Apache Lake to work like a giant electric battery on….
azcentral.com
Salt River Project wants the reservoir to function like an electric battery, releasing water through a hydropower dam when customers need power.
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In parts of many African nations, the lack of access to an electrical grid leads people to cut down trees for charcoal. The results of that are catastrophic, including for public health. Important work by @A_L/@irenatfh/@CarolineYLChen, for @propublica 👇.
projects.propublica.org
The forests around the epicenter of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak are getting patchier. The next pandemic could emerge from the edges around these patches, where wildlife and humans mix.
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"Primary responsibility for the debacle lies, of course, with SVB’s management. But regulators are supposed to grasp that they exist because bankers are always tempted to take risks.". Check out @eisingerj's take on the SVB debacle, for @propublica 👇 .
propublica.org
It’s an all-too-familiar cycle: First comes the boom, then the breathtakingly speedy bust, and then the bailout. Now we’re in the moment where everyone wonders where the financial regulators were.
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RT @gaufre: Hedge funds are trying to wipe out local news. But the FCC took a stand. Thank Chair Rosenworcel for standing with us. https://….
newsweek.com
Further enriching greedy investors is not more important than protecting America's local news.
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