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In Alberta, heavyweight lobbying by Australia’s coal baron

Billionaire Gina Rinehart hired a firm with federal Conservative ties to press for Grassy Mountain mining.
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What’s next for the Chesapeake Bay?

As the Chesapeake Bay Program turns 40 this year, with a history that includes both significant achievements and outright failures, it faces one of its biggest challenges ever.

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Scarce water: on the frontlines of BC’s drought

New rules that were supposed to manage water use aren’t working, say advocates.
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Maryland shifts Chesapeake Bay cleanup strategy

New research shows a need to focus mostly on many diffuse sources of pollution rather than single large sources such as wastewater treatment plants.

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A Florida city famous for its water worries that it might run out

As Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) likes to note, Florida is the fastest-growing U.S. state. But the population boom strains vital services such as water distribution.
Smalltown Ontario seeks cross-border Great Lakes help
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Smalltown Ontario seeks cross-border Great Lakes help

A tiny Georgian Bay township hopes 200 Great Lakes leaders will jointly urge Ontario to consider how development threatens watersheds.

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Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems in Japan
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Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Reliant on its fisheries, Japan has long known the importance of maintaining healthy forest watersheds so as to protect coastal fisheries. It’s a lesson other nations could benefit from as the global environmental crisis worsens.
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