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American Rivers announces Tom Kiernan as CEO
Leader with decades of state and federal conservation experience to take the helm of nation’s premier river conservation organization.
February 11, 2021
Tom Kiernan
American Rivers has named Tom Kiernan, former CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and former President of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), as its next President and CEO. Throughout his career, Kiernan has been dedicated to protecting the nation’s lands and waters, diversifying the conservation movement and advancing innovative solutions to benefit people and nature.
His decades of leadership, proven management expertise and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion will build on American Rivers’ strong track record of success and propel the organization toward achieving its vision of clean water and healthy rivers everywhere, for everyone.
Paul Durham Tucson City Councilman Paul Durham threw an unexpected twist into this year s City Council races when he announced he would be calling it quits in the final year of his first term. Representing the constituents of Ward 3 has been a profound privilege, Durham wrote in his letter of resignation last week. However, in order to attend to personal matters, I am now compelled to resign from my position as the Ward 3 councilmember prior to the expiration of my term. Durham s last day in office will be March 1. Durham had previously taken a leave of absence from the council job in September 2020 to focus on caring for his husband, who has been suffering from cancer. He had returned to attend some meetings in December.
Enough habitat exists to support return of Mexican wolves in Southwest, study says Researchers fitted this Mexican gray wolf with a radio collar in 2018. Tracking the animals in the wild is part of a decades-long effort to reintroduce the subspecies, which was nearly extinct in the 1970s. (Source: Cronkite News) By Kevin Pirehpour | February 10, 2021 at 11:45 AM MST - Updated February 10 at 11:46 AM
PHOENIX – A U.S.-Mexico partnership could aid the long-term recovery of the endangered Mexican wolf, a subspecies of the North American gray wolf, and its eventual removal from the U.S. endangered species list, according to a new study.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 29th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 192 billion cubic feet to 2,689 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 41 billion cubic feet, or 1.5% higher than the 2,648 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 29th of last year, and 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.9% above the five-year average of 2,491 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 29th of January in recent years..the 192 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was a bit less than the average forecast of a 195 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but more than the 155 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and also more than the average withdrawal of 146 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have