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According to the EPA and the U-S Government Accountability Office, two Bloomington Superfund sites, Bennett Stone Quarry and Neal’s Landfill, are vulnerable to flooding from climate change.
—Linda Greene
On a two-hundred-acre tract of farmland in northeast Saint Joseph County, Fort Wayne-based Indiana Michigan Power is installing a solar farm, which it says will be capable of producing 20,000 kilowatts of clean energy.
—Norm Holy
BBC News has reported that thousands of migratory birds have recently been found dead in New Mexico, causing alarm among biologists. New Mexico State University professor Martha Desmond explained that the mass die-off is a mystery but could be related to smoke from wildfires or the recent cold weather.
—Norm Holy
America’s largest national forest, Tongass National Forest in Alaska, will be opened up to logging and road construction after the Trump administration finalizes its plans to open up the forest, according to The New York Times.
—Norm Holy
White Oak Conservation in Florida has broken ground on a new four-square-mile elephant habitat. The habitat will be the new home of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus retired elephants. Since 2016, they’ve been living at Ringling’s Center for Elephant Conservation in Florida.
—Norm Holy
TC Energy has invested in a new project, the Coastal GasLink pipeline. It would pump fracked gas over 420 miles from northern Canada to its coast for export to Asia. The pipeline would cross the territory of the Wet’suwet’en Nation without the consent of its hereditary chiefs. The pipeline threatens Wet’suwet’en land, water, air and people.
—Linda Greene
The nation’s most comprehensive ban on plastic items and paper bags is close to becoming law in New Jersey. In an effort to rein in the plastic pollution that has clogged the state’s beaches, riverfronts and water supplies, the state legislature recently passed a bill that will establish several limits on common products. The governor has to approve the bill and is expected to do so.
—Linda Greene
Sir David Attenborough was 28 years old when he convinced his bosses at the BBC to let him travel the world and document his explorations. He has been on the road ever since. Until recently, Attenborough’s films shied away from making sweeping declarations about the planet’s changing climate. That stance has changed.
—Norm Holy
Reuters reports that General Electric plans to stop building coal-fired power plants as the U.S. industrial conglomerate focuses more on renewable sources of power generation.
—Norm Holy
