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Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal

Grist

They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise. What happens next could have broad implications, since UPMIFA is a uniform law that every state in the U.S., except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An

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California Water Challenges Remain Despite Significant Precipitation in 2023

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

State Water Project Allocations In April 2023, the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) announced that the State Water Project, which is a key water source for California’s Central Valley, South Bay Area, and Southern California, would — for the first time since 2006 — meet 100% of all water allocations in 2023.

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

Grist

But as sea levels rise and the islands continue to subside, the costs of fortifying and maintaining the structures may exceed the value of the land and agricultural production behind them, says Alf Brandt, counsel to the State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon.

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