Midwest landowners fighting the construction of a 2,000-mile web of carbon-capture pipelines are upset to learn that the company seeking easements on their lands is funded by foreign investors, including at least one with a troubling history. Summit Carbon Solutions aims to build a pipeline through hundreds of farms and other private properties in Iowa,…
EXCLUSIVE: Foreign Company With Troubled Past Buys Into Massive Midwest Carbon Capture Project
July 27, 2022
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Electric Vehicles: Trading One Form of Hazardous Mining for Another
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) reached a record 3 million in 2020, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) . That’s an increase of 40 percent from 2019 and is in contrast to overall car sales, which saw a 16 percent decrease. The report further estimated that EV sales could reach 23…
Extreme Policies for Organic Farming Ignore Soil Science: Former USDA Soil Scientist
July 26, 2022
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Under pressure from environmentalists, some governments have implemented extreme nitrogen fertilizer restrictions that ignore the time needed to restore a depleted soil microbiology, resulting in protests from some scientists and farmers who are seeing the concerning impacts of such restrictions. According to organic farming proponent and former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scientist Kelly…
World’s Tiger Population Is 40 Percent Higher Than Previously Estimated: Conservation Group
There are far more tigers in the world than previously thought, according to a new population assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The wild tiger population sits somewhere between 3,700 and 5,600, up 40 percent from the last tiger assessment in 2015, the IUCN said in a July 21 report. Improvements in monitoring led…
8 Cheetahs to Fly From Namibia to India For Attempt to Reintroduce Species Back Into Wilderness
India and Namibia have signed an agreement to relocate eight African cheetahs to India in the hopes of seeing wild cats establish themselves in the Asian nation, where Asiatic cheetahs have been declared extinct since 1952 due to over-hunting and habitat loss. The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on July 20 to promote…
Kakadu National Park Rangers Shoot 6,000 Pigs After 3-year Hiatus
Kakadu National Park’s rangers have shot 6,000 pigs as aerial shooting operations resume for the first time in three years. The most effective method of controlling feral pig numbers in Australia’s top end has not been used since 2019 due to a culling accident that seriously injured two park rangers. Specialist staff developed and established…
US Postal Service Set to Make 40 Percent of New Mail Trucks Electric
July 24, 2022
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced plans to make at least 40 percent of its new delivery fleet electric. Back in February, the USPS had already said that it would procure 165,000 New Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) trucks from Oshkosh Defense, of which 10 percent would be electric. But in a July 20…
Americans Likely to Be Tracked for CO2 Emissions Under SEC’s New Climate Rule: Consumers’ Research
July 24, 2022
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Will your CO2 emissions data be collected and reported to the government in the near future? A consumer rights group said that a new rule proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would lay the groundwork for doing so. On March 21, the SEC proposed a rule titled “The Enhancement and Standardization of…
Turn Out the Lights, Enjoy the Stars, and Save Our Natural World
Most people love fairy lights. The dainty luminescence with which we festoon our gardens and verandas delivers an air of Santa’s grotto enchantment. The thought of a fancy evening soirée with a glass of fizz—sans garden illumination? The horror of it! Like fireworks, the bright colors delight our senses and take us back to childhood…
Dutch Dairy Farmer Faces Having to Cull 95 Percent of his Cows
July 13, 2022
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In the Netherlands, dairy farmer Martin Neppelenbroek is near the end of the line. New environmental regulations will require him to slash his livestock numbers by 95 percent. He thinks he will have to sell his family farm. “I can’t run a farm on 5 percent. For me, it’s over and done with,” he said…
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