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At least a half-dozen utilities have released plans to get to net-zero emissions, or close to it, by twenty fifty. Now a Michigan company has said that it will get to net-zero emissions by twenty forty, the fastest timetable of any major utility in the country.
The Trump administration has formally revised a proposal that would significantly restrict the type of research that can be used to draft environmental and public health regulations, a measure that experts say amounts to one of the government’s most far-reaching restrictions on science.
Here is a followup report on a peaceful protest highlighting the urgency of the global climate emergency in which twenty-two Greenpeace activists climbed the Fred Hartman Bridge in Bayton, Texas, and suspended themselves to dramatically challenge the fossil fuel industry.
A jury has awarded two hundred fifty million dollars in punitive damages to Bill Bader, a Campbell, Missouri, peach farmer who argued that the weedkiller dicamba, made by Bayer/Monsanto and BASF, drifted from other farms and severely damaged his trees.
On March fourth, World Wildlife Day, Sea Shepherd crews came upon a group of skiffs fishing illegally inside the Vaquita Refuge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. Four more skiffs arrived, and the group launched an organized attack, surrounding the M/V Sharpie, the Sea Shepherd’s M/V Farley Mowat and military ships.
Butterflies and bees, ants and beetles, cockroaches and other insects help humans. Just sample the ways these animals enable life as we know it: they pollinate crops, break down waste and support entire ecosystems. Yet many insects around the world are in decline.
Toxic pollution levels fell significantly in China between January and February, and scientists think the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, is a large part of the reason why.
People around the world are celebrating some recent major wins over the fossil fuel industry.
In Canada, rail blockades, sabotage and demonstrations are taking place as people are organizing to support the Wet’suwet’en First Nation as its members defend their un-ceded land against multiple oil and gas companies trying to build pipelines through it.
