Category Archives: Environment

Beavers, the Landscape, Carbon, Methane, and Climate Change

Beavers engineer the landscape to create carbon sinks and methane sources. What to do?

Growing Cotton: One Small Sustainable Solution to the World Plastics Problem

The Khamir NGO demonstrates that kala cotton can be grown without copious use of water, pesticides, and chemical fesrtilizers.

Bees and Bluebells: Celebrating World Bee Day By Encouraging Pollinators in My Garden

Aorld Bee Day provided the chance to think about what plants to add to my garden to encorage bees to visit.

Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?

Report by Ausralia-based Minderoo Foundation details who the plastic pushers are and who is funding their activities.

Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives

The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.

Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports

Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?

9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability

The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.

New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation

Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.

Another Dangerous Fire Season is Looming in the Western U.S., and the Drought-Stricken Region is Headed for a Water Crisis

As drought persists throughout the Western United States, federal agencies predict a tough, long fire year lies ahead.

Why Biden’s Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicle Plans Won’t Avert Climate Crisis

Unfortunately, central Biden Administration climate change policies, like carbon taxes/pricing, fall well short of the level of action needed

Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters

Climate messaging has changed, but the willingness to take adequate measures has not.

New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide

For nearly a decade, pipeline companies have relied on the contested Nationwide Permit 12 when their projects cross waterbodies in the U.S.