Environment mostly relates to environmental policy, or action human beings take (or do not take) to prevent or moderate our impact on nature.
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No-Buy-Friday imperfect? Stick with it and see. Obamacare barely took flight, & then got wings � Another failure in my ongoing attempts to please everyone. Last Thursday, some of us from “...
by mikeymikey
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on Thu Mar 27, 2025 at 08:01 AM PDT
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Wed Mar 26, 2025 at 05:30 AM PDT
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Prompt: Describe how enhancing existing ecological systems can quickly and affordably remove carbon (and methane and particulates) from the atmosphere Here’s how the AI https://claude.ai/new responded: Enhancing Ecological Systems for Atmospheric...
by gmoke
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on Sun Mar 23, 2025 at 08:54 PM PDT
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— — Spoiler alert: It’s the “exploitable resources” that they contain. Don’t need those pesky “land managers” getting in the way, now do they? This Executive Order spells it out: Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production — March 1, 2025...
by jamess
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on Sun Mar 23, 2025 at 02:12 PM PDT
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Environmental Protection Agency employees penned an open letter to the American public raising the alarm on President Donald Trump’s dismantling of their agency.�
“We cannot stand by and allow ...
by Alix Breeden
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on Fri Mar 21, 2025 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Guest: Climate Analyst Matt Sedlar Also: Splashdown in the 'Gulf of America' More Trump court losses And why giving up isn't an option... Earlier this month, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order calling for the "Immediate Expansion of American Timber...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Mar 19, 2025 at 06:46 PM PDT
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Fishing and Environmental Groups Slam $134 Million in Additional Federal Funding for Sites Reservoir The Sites Reservoir Project in California, a controversial water project promoted by Governor Gavin Newson and opposed by a coalition of environmental groups, fishing groups and Tribes because it will divert more water out of the Sacramento River,...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Mar 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM PDT
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Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland: “If Vladimir Putin had a plan to foul our air and water, wreck public health and drive America over the cliff of irreversible lethal climate change, it would look exactly like [EPA chief] Lee Zeldin’s plan. This is a plan...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Mar 21, 2025 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Chicken Little was right. The sky is falling, and it is going to get worse. She was hit on the head, but she knew by not what. It was an acorn, but how could she know? This is not a new story. “Chicken Little” (also known as “Henny Penny” or “The Sky...
by KirkLC
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on Tue Mar 18, 2025 at 07:27 AM PDT
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We continue today with the first of six truths from Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie of Our World in Data. Humans have never been sustainable, often overloading their environments and ...
by Mokurai
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on Tue Mar 18, 2025 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Virtually the entire state of Florida is sprayed in a misguided attempt to control mosquitoes. A list of the mosquito control districts in Florida....
by Arthur Oslund Candidate FL House District 82
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on Mon Mar 17, 2025 at 09:00 AM PDT
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A very intense warming in the stratosphere ,breaking up the upper half of the polar vortex, has spun momentum downwards into the polar jet stream that is diving into the western United States. At the same time strong surface Bermuda high pressure has...
by FishOutofWater
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on Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 08:14 AM PDT
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Note: I said a while ago that I was going to take a break from writing, but one thing has led to another and I am now writing and commenting at least as much as I did before. Part of this is that I’ve been reading more instead of listen to the news so...
by Desert Scientist
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on Sun Mar 16, 2025 at 03:55 PM PDT
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EPA chief Zeldin lies about U.S. energy dominance, 'EV mandate', vows to increase pollution, cancer, deadly toxins Also: Judge orders thousands of fired federal workers back to work 'immediately'... We've got a few explainers on today's BradCast. But I...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 06:55 PM PDT
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President Donald Trump boasted yet again that he “invaded” California in order to turn on its magic water faucet, solving its wildfire problems. “I invaded Los Angeles, and we opened up the ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 06:00 AM PDT
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I’m very very sad to note that Rep, Grijalva (D-AZ) has passed away at 77 from complications from his treatment for cancer (he was diagnosed last year). First elected to Congress in 2002. He served as the chairman of the House Natural Resources...
by JunglelandDan
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on Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 02:46 PM PDT
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Long ago I remember seeing a reprint of a political cartoon from the turn of the century, which used an image of an octopus as a visual metaphor for the many inroads, economically and socially, ...
by mikeymikey
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on Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 07:59 AM PDT
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During a conversation on campus, several of us graduate students at the University of Arizona (instigated by me, I’m afraid) decided to do a major hike over the Rincon Mountains northeast of Tucson. Pete agreed to have his wife transport him, Dick and...
by Desert Scientist
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on Sun Mar 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM PDT
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is celebrating his many rollbacks to the organization, bragging about shooting a “dagger through the heart of climate change religion” ...
by Alix Breeden
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on Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 06:00 AM PDT
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When Donald Trump recruited Pete Hegseth from Fox News to lead his Department of Defense, it was unarguably among the worst nominations in the history of the country. Hegseth had zero experience in military management, or in leading an enterprise on...
by News Corpse
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on Wed Mar 12, 2025 at 03:29 PM PDT
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