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by | Feb 14, 2024

SACRAMENTO — California’s environmental-friendly lawmakers were quite proud of themselves when, in 2014, they passed a first-in-the-nation ban on stores from handing out so-called single-use plastic bags as a means to turn back the tide, so to speak, on an ocean-pollution…

by | Jan 18, 2024

“The loss of bees puts the entire global food supply at risk, and because of this, the race is on to save them,” states a December tech newsletter. “Save the Bees reports that bee populations have decreased by more than…

by | Nov 14, 2023

As a child, I loved animals. I set up an association of friends of ornithology at school, and we had a great time, because we dedicated ourselves to observing birds and not trying to fix their issues. Later on I…

by | Sep 26, 2023

In the early days of the last century, the city of New York faced a serious horse-manure crisis. “Experts” were predicting that by 1930, the stuff would be piled three stories high in the streets. But then, just in time,…

by | Aug 16, 2023

With a stroke of the presidential pen, President Joe Biden has sabotaged domestic uranium mining and put his own energy agenda in jeopardy. Biden’s August 8 use of the Antiquities Act to declare almost a million acres of land in…

by | Jun 7, 2023

Two hundred thousand Irish cows could be slaughtered, according to a report from the Irish Department of Agriculture. The report, obtained last week by the Irish Independent, suggests that Ireland should reduce dairy herds by culling 10 percent of cows…

by | May 4, 2023

Last month, President Joe Biden and the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation that was universally agreed upon as the “toughest-ever vehicle emissions standards” for automobiles. Specifically, according to the EPA itself, MY (Model Year) 2032 “standards are projected to result…

by | Feb 24, 2023

One way to get a handle on the Colorado River crisis is via historical comparison, the past and the present, then and now. Then would be 1922, when the Colorado River Compact, the current river-use agreement, was negotiated. The population…

by | Jan 7, 2023

I finally sat myself down last week with Wendell Berry’s latest book of short stories, How It Went. I’m glad I finally did. Berry challenges everyone. He is a fierce opponent of Big Government and of Big Corporate both. He…

by | Oct 26, 2022

A new report exposes much of recycling as an empty ritual geared more at cleansing consciences than the planet. The publisher of the study? Greenpeace. “The plastics and products industries have been promoting plastic recycling as the solution to plastic…

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