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What Are We Doing to Ethiopia?

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Ethiopia, a poor nation, will cut cattle use and up chicken production to reduce methane emissions. (Ethiopia produces 0.04 percent of all greenhouse gases). In Climate Home News.

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More Wolves, Fewer Deer-Vehicle Collisions

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A surprising report from PERC found that wolf reintroduction in Wisconsin caused deer to stay away from roads and thus reduced collisions.

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An Environmental Weapon Unique to Indigenous Tribes

Members of Hualapai tribe near Grand Canyon. Photo by simononly on Flicker.

The Hualapai Tribe may stop a lithium mine in Arizona on the grounds that the land is sacred (even though they don’t own it). Wallace Kaufman explains on AIER.org.

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How governments make wildfires worst.

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‘Nudging people to dismiss risk by making it cheaper and easier for them to live in fire-prone areas helps no one,’ writes Tate Watkins on the PERC website.

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Climate meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho, brings 90 or so private jets.

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From Fox Business: “[T]raffic from private jets got to be so busy that the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned planes on the West Coast from taking off. “

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Did Tracy Stone-Manning Dissemble to Congress?

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Biden’s nominee for head of Bureau of Land Management may have hidden her past contacts with Earth First, says the Washington Times (also in the Wall Street Journal).

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Coal Ash Disposal Sites a Source of Rare Minerals?

“Blue Diamond Coal Mine” by cindy47452 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Virginia Tech center gets a federal grant to explore coal ash as a source of minerals used in electric cars, reports the Virginia Mercury.__