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The Stream, June 14, 2023: Momentum Builds in Manitoba For Environmental Protections

Circle of Blue

This is why those living in Winnipeg’s Point Douglas neighborhood continue to advocate for government action and protection against the industrial corridors which have turned their homes and wild ecosystems into “a toxic soup.” Severe seasonal storms have hit the country’s southwestern, southern, and eastern regions.

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How Can We Build Transmission Infrastructure Responsibly?

Legal Planet

The most convenient routes for that line would require a large amount of new construction in New Hampshire or Maine (Vermont was considered but rejected as too expensive). But two appellate-court decisions strictly limited this authority: A 2009 Fourth Circuit decision, Piedmont Environmental Council v.

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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

The main implication of this reality has been left unsaid: efforts to expand transmission for the purpose of increasing the use of variable renewable energy cannot be justified as a means of preventing power outages like the ones that occurred in Texas and California. We need to respect our grid authorities.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

Diamond considers five main reasons why societies fall: Natural climate change such as the medieval warm period (MWP) or the little ice age (LIA) changing the climate of an area meaning that crops no longer grow with the same abundance or at all. Douglas Hawthorn. When damage occurs, it is sometimes not possible to repair them.

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ESA Policy News: December 5, 2022

ESA

Senate passes bill authorizing research in saline lake ecosystems in the Great Basin. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), authorizes U.S. The bill authorizes $5 million for this study each year through Fiscal Year 2027. Forest Service – Inyo National Forest; California; Mammoth Mountain Ski Area Main Lodge Redevelopment.

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Research briefing: why are reports of hate crime surging during the Israel-Hamas conflict?

Environmental Progress

These have resulted in Supreme Court rulings in 1915 and the Comics Code Authority. Wertham’s activism led to congressional hearings and eventually the comic book industry creating the Comics Code Authority.’ And indispensable in that toolkit against foreign adversaries are the FBI’s FISA 702 authorities.’ ‘And