The Interior Department is accused in a new lawsuit of unlawfully ignoring climate change projections in its management decisions for the Colorado River’s Glen Canyon Dam.
Drought conditions are expected to increase in severity in the coming years, affecting the Colorado River’s water levels and likely creating a supply and demand problem for the millions of people who depend on it, according to the complaint filed Oct. 1 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
Yet none the alternatives put forward in the Interior’s final environmental impact statement and its 2016 record of decision would change the ...
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