This Week in Water for January 13, 2019

A New Global Treaty to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Goes into Effect—Without the U.S. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. The U.S. refrigerant industry is in favor of a treaty to reduce emissions, as are Republicans, but the U.S. would not sign. Carbon dioxide releases in the U.S. rose in 2018 by almost 3.5 percent. The Trump administration is meeting significant opposition, some of it bipartisan, to its plans to open nearly all offshore areas to oil and gas development. Oceans are heating up 40 percent faster than what was estimated five years ago. NREL: Floating solar panels on reservoirs could generate 10 percent of the nation’s electricity needs. Forget about rakes—"Goat Fund Me."