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Giant SunZia Power Project Suit Set for March 7 Tucson Court Hearing

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$11B wind-transmission megaproject faces pushback from Arizona Tribes, environmental groups over claimed danger to historic and cultural sites from construction in San Pedro River Valley.

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Government Ownership of Rain is Antithetical to Increased Potable Water

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Supreme Court having before it an interstate water dispute, where Florida seeks an equitable apportionment of the waters of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers over the claims of upstream Georgia, the issue of “who owns the rain” is of national importance. Tucson may have gone too far in mandating rain collection for landscaping.

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Government Ownership of Rain is Antithetical to Increased Potable Water

Green Building Law Update

Supreme Court having before it an interstate water dispute, where Florida seeks an equitable apportionment of the waters of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers over the claims of upstream Georgia, the issue of “who owns the rain” is of national importance. Tucson may have gone too far in mandating rain collection for landscaping.

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State Focus – Utah: Consistently Excellent

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States for Business: Utah claimed the top spot for 2015—again. A recent study found that Salt Lake pays secondary-school teachers more than the national average and more than nine of 12 other Western metropolitan statistical areas—including $17,000 more on average than Tucson and $8,000 more than Austin, TX. 1 in the Forbes survey.

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Amazonia, USA

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In fact, so many locations issued public statements claiming they’d be the perfect site for HQ2, a wag posted on Twitter what he claimed was a “U.S. census” graphic of these statements. Suffice it to say, it looks like a map of the U.S. suffering from the worst case of chicken pox in recorded history (image below).

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