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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. It’s now being raised as a political issue.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Now Mobilizing Against Gun Violence: Scientists and Public Health Professionals

Union of Concerned Scientists

The editors of Scientific American called for “a lasting stop to the political obstruction” against federally funded gun violence research, adding, “We need to become the kind of country that says the lives of children are more valuable than the right to weapons that have killed them.”. Back then, scientists were crushed by craven politics.

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House Republicans Now Want To Take Away All DEP’s Application Fee Revenue To Further De-Fund Environmental Protection Programs

PA Environment Daily

Those accounts were set up in each law because the industries and local governments who pay the fees did not want their money going into the “black hole” of the General Fund to balance the state budget. General Fund support to fund DEP has been cut by 40 percent since 2003 which resulted in a nearly 30 percent reduction in DEP staff.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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Unsafe Yield

Circle of Blue

Unsafe Yield Severe drought, dead wells, political division push Arizona steadily closer to water supply peril. Nobody who knows Peggy Judd would mistake her for a political progressive. I’m told it’s not the government’s business. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – March 21, 2022. Read the first report here.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. When proposing a new regulation or investment project, they often have to present a regulatory impact analysis showing that its environmental benefits outweigh the financial costs.