by Beth Holmes | Aug 8, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
VP Harris spoke on Monday, calling climate change an “immediate” and “urgent” crisis. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Florida International University to announce a series of grants being created to help states and communities better deal with climate-related...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 25, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
Old growth and mature forests are the focus of a new executive order by President Biden, to identify and protect them as a part of climate conservation. The order, signed Thursday, directs the National Forest Service (NFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 18, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Green Energy, Sustainability
Wind and solar sources generated more power than nuclear plants in the U.S. for the first time this April, according to the US Energy Information Administration. In April, clean energy sources, which include hydro, geothermal, wind and solar sources, accounted for...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 11, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Green Energy, Sustainability
Gutting the EPA, the latest Supreme Court ruling dictates that only Congress can regulate emissions coming from existing power plants. In 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a directive to all standing coal power plants in the U.S. to either reduce...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 27, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Groundwater rights ruling shakes up Nevada during the state’s long drought. Nevada, like the rest of the American West, is more than twenty years into a megadrought. Climatologists say the area has become much warmer and drier in recent decades than in the...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 20, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Sriracha hot sauce will be thin on the shelves, as chili pepper crops fail in unseasonable conditions. Back in April, Huy Fong Foods, the company that makes the wildly popular sriracha sauce, sent out a letter announcing that they were struggling to get chili peppers...
