Rotten Eggs: USDA Reverses Organic Animal Welfare Policy
Trump USDA reverses predecessor’s last-minute policy requiring more humane living conditions for hens that produce organic eggs.
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The EPA Tries to Turn a Blind Eye to Carbon Emissions. The Courts Can Stop It.
Senator Whitehouse explains why the courts can challenge some of the breaks the EPA has given to global warming perps.
Read more...Three Surprises on Climate Change from Economist Michael Grubb
A tiny bit of good, or perhaps more accurately, less bad news on the climate change front.
Read more...Stop Talking Affordable Water and Start Talking Poverty
By David Zetland, who worked on water policy for 10+ years and is an assistant professor of economics at Leiden University College in the Netherlands. Originally published at Aquanomics Circle of Blue published this long, aggravating article of the efforts of activists, water managers and (far too many consultants) to “find a compromise” on the […]
Read more...Fast-Fashion’s Environmentally Destructive Habits
Fast fashion is cheap for bad reasons.
Read more...More Climate Change Refugees Means More Walls
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that since the early 2000s, Defense Department analyses have been anticipating climate-change-induced mass migrations. As this post describes, they are happening at at an accelerating pace. By Todd Miller, who has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and the NACLA Report on […]
Read more...Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future
The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Carmegeddon for Tesla
The monthly moment of truth for automakers and for Tesla, the results ain’t pretty. This is where hype goes to die.
Read more...Q & A: What Price Do We Put on Our Oceans?
Interview with Erik Solheim, on agenda for UN Environment Assembly, starting tomorrow, that will discuss measures to clean up the oceans.
Read more...Science Suggests We’re Making Fish Homicidal Through Antidepressants We Flush Into the Water
First a lobster with a Pepsi tattoo, now fish made mad by meds in the water.
Read more...Life After Coal
In Germany’s Appalachia, the last coal mine is closing.
Read more...Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why Burning of Fast Fashion Clothes to Fuel Power Plants is Troubling
Debunks recent news accounts touting fueling power plants with defective fast fashion rather than fossil fuels. Much more is required.
Read more...Bitcoin -> Energy Use -> Pollution
Bitcoin uses a computation system to prevent fraud, but computation takes energy, which damages the environment, all at an increasing rate.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Building Is Burning and All the World’s Babies Are In It — Using Force to Fight Climate Change
It’s going to take force to fight climate change and there’s little time to waste. Asking and negotiating won’t do the job.
Read more...Tesla’s “Semi” Truck: Perspectives from the Cab and the Truck Stop and the Dock
Looking at the Tesla Semi from the driver’s perspective.
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