- PERC warns against tightening particulate standards—tighter standards would preclude prescribed fires.
- Can you make regulation even more onerous? Biden just did it.
- California insists on all-electric trucks.
- “Climate Change Papers You Should Read.” A guide by David Legates for Cornwall Alliance.
- 2023 Farm Bill going green? Activists push for a “food waste reduction office” in USDA , funded at $120 million a year.
Tag: wildfires
Thursday’s Links
- Cold weather causes many more deaths than hot weather does but you’d never know it from WHO or the Economist.
- Portland to spend $2 million to block off 16 blocks downtown for a zero-emission delivery zone (no gas-fired delivery vehicles allowed).
- Energy Dept. offering $3 billion to investors if they sell solar panels to people with low credit scores (or, in the case of Puerto Rico, rickety electric grids). (Behind a paywall).
- ‘The U.S. Forest Service’s job of tackling the wildfire crisis just got a lot harder.’
- China is expected to have 45 percent market share of solar panels sold in the U.S. this year .(Behind a paywall.)
How to Stop the Devastation of the Sierra Nevada Forests: The LA Times Gets on Board
The need for active management of western forests has a new champion: The Los Angeles Times. Hayley Smith reports that a third of the forests in California’s southern Sierra Nevada Mountains have been devastated over the past decade. And she recognizes that to prevent further incursions by fire and blight, active management is needed, including prescribed…