What is the real story about the disappearing passenger pigeon? (Podcast.) Arizona bill would ban solar panels and electric-vehicle batteries from landfills. A climate change battle over natural gas heats up.
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Thursday’s Links
The resilience of pandas. Subsidizing renewables: A world-class scam? Fact-checking the New York Times on climate change.
Wednesday’s Links
How to clean up polluted sites: Get the government out of the way. A ban on disposal of wind turbine blades? Survey: ‘One in five U.K. children report nightmares about climate change.’
Tuesday’s Links
Democrats’ proposed ban on fracking would hurt a lot of people, says American Petroleum Institute. . Matt Ridley discusses the environmental provenance of the coronavirus. Stanford law students say they won’t work for law firm that represented ExxonMobil.
Thursday’s Links
New report: Transportation “is climate enemy #1.” Banks’ divesting from fossil fuels will worsen world poverty. Cities want plastic companies to pay for recycling.
‘The Perverse Panic over Plastic’
John Tierney in the City Journal: The plastic panic has never made any sense, and it’s intensifying even as evidence mounts that it’s not only a waste of money but also harmful to the environment, not to mention humans. It’s been a movement in search of a rationale for half a century. During…