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The recently released Wind Powers America Annual Report says wind-supported jobs in the Hoosier state more than doubled last year. Indiana ranks in the top five for wind energy employment throughout the country.
MidAmerican Energy crews have completed work on a direct current ultra-fast electric vehicle charging station.
Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, is outdoing itself. It has petitioned the US Department of Agriculture to approve a new corn seed genetically engineered to survive applications of five herbicides used together: dicamba, glufosinate, quizalofop, 2,4-D and glyphosate. As we reported previously, glyphosate has been deemed a human carcinogen in numerous lawsuits.
No sooner did the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth District ban the herbicide dicamba than the EPA issued a so-called cancellation order that would allow farmers until July thirty-first to use up their stockpiles of the herbicide.
Environmentalists are urging the US Department of the Interior to place a moratorium on new offshore drilling lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.
If we carry on with business as usual, we’re going to destroy ourselves. That’s the conclusion of Dr. Jane Goodall, the world-renowned conservationist, who desperately wants the world to pay attention to what she sees as the greatest threat to humanity’s existence.
Thanks to a new court order, trophy hunters will no longer be welcome in Yellowstone National Park to kill grizzly bears. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2018 decision by the Montana District Court reinstating Endangered Species Act protections for the bears.
U.S. House Democrats unveiled a sweeping climate change plan that includes requiring utilities to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 and automakers to produce only electric vehicles by 2035.
As reported by CNN, more than three hundred sixty elephants have died under mysterious circumstances in Botswana in the past three months, according to local conservationists.
