Despite the goal to unite Missourians around a common cause, rural advocacy groups have been pushing the EPA for more regulation from the Clean Water Act on corporate farming. Tim Gibbons, …
Grades are in for Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Legislature. The Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club and Chispa Arizona this week released this year s environmental report card in English and Spanish. .
A new report highlights the need for more electric transmission, while showing how it can be implemented without hurting our feathered friends. Arkansas is home to 428 bird species, and the report notes that up to 57 million birds die each year from contact with power lines. Glen Hooks, Arkansas policy manager with Audubon Delta, said climate change is the number one threat to bird species in North America. .
In its just-released 2023 legislative scorecard, the group Montana Conservation Voters is critical of Gov. Greg Gianforte s veto of a popular conservation bill and other issues it calls "key to a healthy democracy." Montana Conservation Voters supports the current legal action to overturn the veto of Senate Bill 442, which would have used marijuana sales tax revenue for habitat and water conservation, veteran s programs, public land access and county road repair, among other things. Jock Conyngham, board chair of Montana Conservation Voters, said the governor thumbed his nose at a responsible political process and listened to special interest groups instead of average Montanans. .