Mark Olalde

I returned to Cima Dome yesterday to pay my respects for the first time since I watched its famous Joshua tree forest burn in 2020. @NatlParkService estimates 1.3 million Joshua trees died in the 43,273-acre wildfire. Walking in the scorched forest, it felt like a graveyard.

🚨 zombie wells alert 🚨 “In sampling 2,573 wells in the Greater Wattenberg…the study found natural gas outside the protective barrier in 96% of the wells and benzene and other chemicals…The likely causes…are compromised steel casings or cement seals.” coloradosun.com/2023/03/22/col…

Salton Sea news: Samantha Arthur of Audubon California will be the state’s next Salton Sea czar👇🏼

"Building codes can either accelerate local carbon emission reductions or lock in fossil fuel infrastructure...When code changes nibble at utilities’ market share, however, the corporations bite back." @npbowlin/@highcountrynews chews on the meaning of @atmosenergy's opposition.

"The answers the company did give raise concerns that its YieldStar software may play a role in driving rent inflation in some of the country’s biggest markets." an update to incredibly important reporting on @RealPage by @hvogell/@propublica 👇 propublica.org/article/yields…

#BREAKING: President Joe Biden will set Castner Range in El Paso as national monument elpasotimes.com/story/news/202…

No lies detected.

Although, with Gorsuch's understanding of federal law in Indian Country, and with Coney Barrett trying to stick to the actual question at hand, perhaps the all-important Winters Doctrine will emerge unscathed, which would be a huge relief to Native American tribes.

"Justice Amy Coney Barrett could be the decisive vote in a US Supreme Court dispute about what steps, if any, the federal government must take to help the Navajo Nation deal with a southwest water crisis." Meanwhile, Kavanaugh is commenting on water issues not before the court.

Chatted #lithium and other renewables with @CAGovernor Newsom today, who's unfazed by bank collapses, rural blowback. "We're as dumb as we want to be." desertsun.com/story/news/env…

🧵1/ NEW with @smmills1960: The Art Institute of Chicago is slow to address concerns that religious artifacts from South & Southeast Asia -- given to the collection by influential museum donors -- may have been looted from their countries of origin chicagobusiness.com/arts-entertain…

The first full @IPCC_CH update since 2014 shows that the 1.5 degree Celsius goal established in the Paris agreement is still achievable, but will require a "quantum leap in climate action." insideclimatenews.org/news/20032023/…

Breaking News: Earth is likely to cross a critical global warming threshold within the next decade unless drastic changes are made, a major UN report said. nyti.ms/3JROaoG

@kimondegreef Maaaybe

NEW: In Navajo Nation, many don't have access to piped water, just one difficulty facing the tribe in a quest for water access that's now before the Supreme Court. Exclusive reporting from Navajo Nation/photos by @schischillyy nbcnews.com/politics/supre… via @nbcnews

Now THAT is one way to spend taxpayer dollars…

@kimondegreef Is your phone background a gold tailings pile…?

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 120 of The Continent

Utility @SRPconnect is proposing a pumped storage reservoir near Apache Lake to work like a giant electric battery on the power grid azcentral.com/story/money/bu…