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Purdue University engineers have created white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their surroundings but without consuming energy. According to the researchers, the paint would reduce the need for air conditioning by absorbing nearly no solar energy.
The critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale has been spared, at least for now, from exposure to seismic surveys. In search of gas and oil under the ocean, fossil fuel companies blast seismic air guns in habitat that is critical for the world’s most endangered whale species.
President Trump’s highly controversial pick for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, answered questions in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of her nomination hearings for the top legal job. Her answers did not give encouragement to environmentalists.
As Ohio’s Lordstown Motors gears up to start making electric pick-up trucks, the state wants to make sure those vehicles can be charged.
Many Long-finned Pilot Whales were found stranded on beaches in Tasmania, Australia. About 500 whales have become stranded, including at least 380 that have died, the AP reported. It is the largest mass stranding in Australia’s recorded history.
Under President Trump, the Department of Defense wants to turn one point two million acres of Nevada’s Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the largest wildlife refuge in the lower forty-eight states, into an Air Force bombing range.
Democracy Now! reports the Environmental Protection Agency has granted the state government environmental regulatory control of nearly all tribal lands in Oklahoma, rolling back sovereign rights for dozens of tribes.
