The real environmental emergency isn’t the modest warming that has helped humans thrive. It’s land degradation, poisoned water and other forms of pollution that are burying the Global South alive.…
Category: Environment
New Lawsuit Claims Ziploc Plastic Bags Dose Food with Microplastics
The case is interesting because of how ubiquitous plastic bags for food storage and preparation are. I suspect the debate over microplastics and consumer safety will continue, despite existing evidence…
Save Okefenokee Swamp from UNESCO Control
In Episode 21 of Conservation Country, host @GabriellaHoffman investigates a Biden-era policy to designate Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage…
Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning
Land-based wind turbines kill golden eagles, so every turbine requires an Eagle Protection Act permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to kill them.
UN Plastics Treaty Collapses
This is great news for the global economy, as radical proposals sought to place taxes and controls on every phase of plastic production and use.
NOAA petitioned to stop offshore wind killing whales
Three environmental groups have formally petitioned NOAA to revoke its prior marine mammal harassment authorizations citing new science that harassment can be deadly. The specific target of the petition is…
Reclaiming ‘Environmentalism’ From the Climate Extremists
One of the major environmentalist movements of the 1960s was fronted by then-First Lady “Lady Bird” Johnson, who initiated a campaign to “Keep America Beautiful.” Johnson explained that her passion…
UN’s ‘plastics treaty’ sports a junk science wrapper
Ultimately, the marketplace of ideas—not the offices of policy NGOs—will deliver the solutions we need. It’s time to break the wave of junk science—not ride it.
Burning Trash for Energy, People and Planet
Metro areas and states should apply pragmatism, reality and these benefits when reconsidering climate and “renewable” energy ideologies that have dominated public policies for far too long.
CFACT report: Feds fail to “offset” wind turbine eagle kills
At a minimum, FWS should issue no new wind power eagle-kill permits until the glaring issues uncovered in this study are resolved. Accurate electrocution death rates must be determined. Given…
Augusta Chronicle’s Climate Myth: Invasive Species in Georgia Not Driven by Warming
So, since neither temperature, precipitation, drought, nor hurricane trends have changed much in Georgia, contrary to the Augusta Chronicle’s slant a “changing climate” can’t be behind any perceived or observed increase…
An Earth Day Addendum: Environmental Justice and the Poor
Accordingly, the “environmental justice” issue is little more than the observation, or complaint, that the poor consume less environmental quality than others, that is, that they choose to allocate their…
Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences
Compensatory mitigation looks like a legal loophole designed to help the wind power industry avoid the Eagle Protection Act. The wind power facilities are just buying the indulgence of killing…
The Blade Stops Here: France Holds Wind Industry Accountable at Last
France’s court system has done what most governments have failed to do: impose real accountability on an industry that’s been operating with impunity. The Bernagues decision should serve as a…
Two new studies imply the Golden Eagle cannot survive more wind turbines
The threat to Golden Eagles from wind is potentially enormous. Wind power generating capacity today is about 160,000 MW. The queue of new wind interconnection applications is around an incredible…
Gila Monsters Are Threatened by Development Not Warming, Science News
The Gila monster migration data presented by the study authors, although interesting, was unfortunately informed by flawed climate models and the extreme modelling scenarios they chose to use to forecast…
Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl
“Until conservation charities disentangle themselves from government funding and corporate influence, they risk becoming complicit in the very destruction they were created to prevent.” – Kelly Jones (Carbon8 Fund) below
Lift the veil on wind power killing eagles
In addition to the allowable kill numbers the eagle death reports should be made public. People need to know that wind projects in their county or state are killing eagles,…
Ending the fallacy of Environmental Racism
The debate over environmental justice has been overtaken by the term “environmental racism” — the claim that minority communities suffer disproportionately from pollution because of systemic racism. While it is…