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The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. A study published in the journal Nature found that in fifteen years the Amazon could turn from a carbon absorber into a carbon emitter, due to wildfires, deforestation and the excess greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere.
At a time when we need to be phasing out fossil fuel production and transitioning to renewable energy, the Maritime Administration and Army Corps of Engineers are considering approving a massive crude oil export terminal with a storage facility and offshore pipeline.
Representative Chellie Pengree, Democrat of Maine, has introduced the Agriculture Resilience Act, comprehensive legislation that would enable reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in US agriculture by the year 2040.
A federal judge in Alaska ruled last Wednesday against a Trump administration plan to open nearly two million acres of America’s largest national forest to logging.
A new federal bill, introduced by Senator Tom Udall and Representative Alan Lowenthal, would force the plastic industry and food and beverage companies to take responsibility for the plastic pollution they create.
The North Dakota Public Service Commission, or PSC, has approved expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL, in a three-to-zero vote.
Recent research shows that worldwide, nuclear power harms and kills animals, both domestic and wild. The intake system of a reactor currently under construction in England could suck in at least 250,000 fish a day. Sea turtles continue to be captured and killed at a nuclear power plant in Florida; that occurrence has gone on for decades because the owner refuses to install an excluder device.
The Center for Biological Diversity and allied conservation organizations recently finalized an agreement setting strict limits on how and where federal agents can kill wolves in Idaho and banning the use of cyanide bombs throughout the state. The agreement also bans the use of snares to kill wolves on public lands.
Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley announced what he calls the largest municipal solar array in the country at a press event recently. Once complete, according to a release from the city, the 100 megawatt solar farm will provide renewable energy to all city facilities and serve city residents through the Cincinnati Electric Aggregation Program, reducing the region’s annual carbon emissions by over 150,000 tons.
