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Water Rights
April 29, 2024
Liza Featherstone
We Don’t Charge People for Air. We Shouldn’t Charge for Water, Either.
A new bill from Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seeks to ban the trade of water futures. Let's go one step further.
May 25, 2023
Matt Ford
Samuel Alito’s Colleagues Catch Him in a Judicial Contradiction
A case involving the EPA’s protection of wetlands somehow became a forum for some fiery justice-on-justice warfare over textualism.
March 20, 2023
Matt Ford
Amy Coney Barrett Could Be the Deciding Vote That Affirms the Navajo Nation’s Water Rights
In oral arguments Monday, the conservative justice seemed like she might actually side with the liberals.
March 9, 2023
Matt Ford
Navajo Nation Is Taking on Three States and the Federal Government for the Right to Colorado River Water
The Supreme Court will have to sort through more than 150 years of byzantine rules and regulations to determine the fate—and the future—of a drying West.
February 24, 2021
Nick Martin
How Does a State Use 40 Percent Less Water?
A recent study found that if the Colorado River drought continues, Arizona, California, and Nevada may have to cut their water usage by nearly half. Acceptance is the first step.
February 8, 2021
Nick Martin
The Colorado River Crisis Is a National Crisis
Colorado River drought and water supply issues could soon affect 12 percent of Americans.
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