News Briefs: President Trump Signs Colorado Drought Contingency Plan Into Law

President Donald Trump recently signed off on a piece of bipartisan legislation that aims to help manage ongoing drought conditions and climate change impacts throughout the Southwest. The signing of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan into law will cut back on water use in the Colorado River, which serves 40 million Americans as a water source, in an effort to keep reservoirs Lake Powell and Lake Mead from falling too low. Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) had previously hailed the Senate’s passage of the bill. “This bill is a bipartisan, multistate solution to a multistate problem, and nothing should