Lake Powell Pipeline approved for environmental analysis

Federal regulators have announced that the Lake Powell Pipeline is ready for a full environmental analysis. In agreeing to move ahead with the environmental analysis, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission launches a 60-day period for public comment on the project, which has been controversial in communities along the Colorado, a river system that supplies water to some 40 million people across seven states but is in danger of shrinking supplies because of climate change and overuse. The Spectrum