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Supreme Court denies motion to resolve Rio Grande dispute without federal input |
New Mexico and Texas cannot move forward with a deal aimed at resolving a decadelong dispute over Rio Grande management, due to their failure to include the federal government in the process. |
The court's three liberals, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, joined Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the 5-4 majority. The court denied a motion Friday made by the two states, along with neighboring Colorado, to enter a consent decree on the subject and instead sustained an exception made by the United States. The consent decree had outlined how New Mexico and Texas would resolve past discrepancies as to how the former delivers water to the latter. But the U.S. maintained that their proposed agreement was both incompatible with a historic compact and would require the federal government to adhere to protocols that it hadn't approved. "We agreed with the United States," Jackson wrote in the opinion issued Friday morning. "Although interstate compacts are (as the name suggests) agreements between States, 'we have sometimes permitted the federal government to participate in compact suits to defend "distinctively federal interests," Jackson wrote, citing a 1981 Maryland v. Louisiana case as precedent. The current case has roots in the 1938 Rio Grande Compact — an agreement that served to oversee river use in three U.S. states through a debit-credit system that accounts for shifting hydrological conditions. Historically, New Mexico has obtained 57 percent of the domestic Rio Grande flow, while 43 percent has been sent to Texas. Read more in a full report from our colleague Sharon Udasin at TheHill.com. |
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The Biden administration announced Friday the availability of $850 million in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) grants aimed at reducing methane emissions. |
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| More frequent and destructive fires are combining with booming oil production to put towns across the American West at risk, a new study has found. |
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The state of Hawaii reached a settlement with young people who sued the state over climate change, and it agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its transportation sector. |
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Reinvigorating the dwindling Great Salt Lake could bring benefits to regional ecology and help bridge the environmental justice gaps that impact area residents, a new study has found. |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
Wednesday - Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk is slated to appear before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee for a budget hearing.
Thursday - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is slated to vote on approval for the Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) gas export terminal
- The House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on four oceans and fisheries bills.
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News we've flagged from other outlets touching on energy issues, the environment and other topics: |
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New texts show FirstEnergy allegedly working with Ohio governor to pass House Bill 6 (Ohio Capital Journal)
Federal Judge Rebuffs a Central Argument of Congestion Pricing Lawsuits (The New York Times) What happens next in the EU investigation into Chinese EVs? (Reuters)
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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A Nevada judge dismissed a case Friday against six so-called fake electors who falsely claimed former President Trump won the state in the 2020 presidential election. Read more |
| Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the Supreme Court's leading conservatives, found himself standing alone when the court handed down a major gun decision Friday. Read more |
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