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The Drying Planet

Circle of Blue

Note: Data is for February 2003 to December 2013 and January 2014 to April 2024. Water is being used as a strategic and political tool. Individuals can reduce water waste by changing simple routines: shortening showers or removing lawns. Graphics by Lucas Waldron/ProPublica. Graphics by Lucas Waldron/ProPublica.

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways. Will you join the call? The province and taxpayers of B.C.

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What’s Really Inside the Final Budget Reconciliation Bill: A Breakdown of Food and Agriculture Provisions

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

The budget reconciliation process, an optional budget procedure that can alter spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit, was first established in the late 1970s and has been used dozens of times by both political parties since 1980. Therefore, it is expected that almost all states will be faced with new annual costs.

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Creating Bird Flu Vaccines for Humans at a Biosecure Laboratory

Scientific American

They are used because flu viruses grow very well in the allantoic cavity, which is full of a liquid that contains waste from the embryo as well as various proteins. You know, people were saying this would become a pandemic in 1997, in 2003 and since then very often, right? Luis and his team showed me how they make H5N1 vaccine seeds.

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables. In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations.

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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards

PA Environment Daily

The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. This industry has been protected by politicians that continue to allow it to literally dump their waste and responsibilities on taxpayers to clean up. Shale Gas + 20 The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. trillion American food and fiber production sector that counts powerful allies in marketing, equipment, chemical, energy industries, and politics. . Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S. are the frontline of an immense $1.1 The productivity of U.S.