World of Change: Water Level in Lake Powell

The 21st century has not been kind to the water levels in Lake Powell.

This series of images, taken by NASA’s Landsat satellites from 1999 to 2015, document the change.

LINK (via: Gizmodo)

Meanwhile further downstream.

Lake Mead is just six inces from the level that triggers cutbacks in deliveries for the three lower basin states – Arizona, Nevada and California.

LINK (via:High Country News)

Exxon must pay $1 million for 2011 spill into Montana's Yellowstone river

US officials have rejected Exxon Mobil’s request to reconsider a one million dollar penalty imposed against the oil company over a 63,000-gallon crude spill into Montana’s Yellowstone river.

LINK (via: The Guardian)

Exxon Mobil's 2015 first quarter profits were 4.9 billion which works out to just shy of 41 million dollars a day or roughly 1.7 million dollars an hour.

The Mangrove Action Project

Mangroves are vital for healthy coastal ecosystems in many regions of the world and research and studies are revealing the unique importance of these habitats to the planet.

The Mangrove Action Project is dedicated to reversing the degradation and loss of mangrove forest wetlands and their associated coastal ecosystems worldwide. Its main goal is to promote the rights of traditional and indigenous coastal peoples, including fishers and farmers, to sustainably manage their coastal environs.

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The petition is 3,404 pages long and weighs 40 lbs

On May 27, 2015 the Premier of BC received a petition signed by 108,000 people asking her not to expand the industry.

This petition is still growing.

Will the Premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark, grant the salmon farming industry the new licences of occupation to allow the industry to expand, or she is in a lonely place when she stands in support of salmon farms?

British Columbians, BC businesses, societies and even municipalities are not standing with her.

LINK (via: Alexandra Morton)

Breaking News From Planet Bullshit

House Republicans unveil latest attempt to block Obama's climate and clean water rules.

Along with prohibiting the EPA from implementing those regulations, the bill would reduce the EPA’s funding by $718 million, a 9 percent reduction from fiscal year 2015 levels. According to the Hill, the EPA has already had its funding decreased by 20 percent since Republicans took the House in 2011.

In addition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would be cut by $8 million, and the Department of Interior would be forced to stop giving federal protection to endangered gray wolves in Midwestern states.

LINK (via: Think Progress)

This is Our Watershed

Help Kate and the Rockaway Beach Citizens for Watershed Protection get stricter regulations for aerial chemical spraying near homes, schools and watersheds in Oregon.

TAKE ACTION: Sign the petition

LINK (via: The Cleanest Line)