A judge has ordered the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to pay nearly $750,000 in citizen restitution for dumping into a landfill 95 percent of the materials that residents thought would be recycled. The city deceived its residents, the decision said, by continuing to accept waste from recycling bins, using trucks that advertised themselves as…
Category: The Environmental Blog
On Speeding Up Environmental Reviews, Joe Manchin May Have Lost Out
To support the “Inflation Reduction Act” that just cleared the Senate on a party vote, Senator Joe Manchin agreed to a “side deal.” According to the Washington Post that deal would streamline the permitting process for major energy projects, including a West Virginia gas pipeline. Among other things it would set a two-year maximum limit…
Australia’s Great Coral Reef Is Alive and Well. Why Hide That Fact?
(This file has been updated.) Peter Ridd, who examined current data about Australia’s Great Coral Reef, demolishes fears that the reef is sick or dying. He asks why the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is obscuring that fact by failing to aggregate the data. However, perhaps recognizing that Ridd (a controversial figure) was studying…