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The House Committee for Agriculture and Natural Resources recently advanced House Bill 3103, which contains new regulatory requirements and avenues to sue the state over logging on state forests.
The bill requires the state forester to set a “sustainable timber harvest level” a minimum of once every ten years but also requires the level be re-established any time there is a change in forest management or any time a fire, landslide or wind event changes the conditions of state forest land. 
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As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
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The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat.
The department on Thursday said it was withdrawing a rule proposed in August after three years of development. Officials with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service cited feedback from more than 7,000 public comments and said they would “evaluate whether it should update” current salmonella regulations.
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PFAS contamination is everywhere: clothing, household products, even the water we drink. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), aka “forever chemicals,” are engineered to last, making them commonplace in manufacturing but devastating to human health and the environment. While regulators scramble to set new limits, traditional water treatment methods aren’t keeping up.
For industry, this is an environmental crisis and a business imperative. Investing in PFAS removal and destruction technologies can help the industries contributing to PFAS contamination mitigate risks, open new markets, keep pace with regulations, and earn trust in an era where sustainability and operational efficiency are key business drivers.
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The private company project praised by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy operates the deadliest section of railway in the country.
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AI is driving huge increases in energy demand everywhere, while climate change is being ignored by everybody. Or that’s how it feels some days. But that’s not how it actually is out in the big, wide world — or even in Trump’s America.
Behind the surface silence, an increasingly chaotic climate is not only driving the transition to renewables and electrification that we all know about. Heat and other extreme weather are, ironically, the largest factor behind recent growth in energy use — bigger than artificial intelligence (AI) and regular data-processing centers combined. And the climate’s ongoing remake of global land- and seascapes is an underlying assumption behind many of President Donald Trump’s most radical foreign policy goals, including making Canada a US state and Greenland a US territory.
The impacts of climate chaos may be perverse in some ways, but they are enormous.
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When the economy slows down, the price of oil tends to fall. But this time, OPEC+ is increasing production despite weak demand.
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A proposal to limit development in state parks and ensure maximum public scrutiny of changes to their management plans won unanimous approval in a Florida House committee Tuesday. The development gave hope to environmentalists and those who enjoy state public parks that this legislation can become law this year. The bill (HB 209), sponsored by […]
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