Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 May 2019
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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January high; US Covid deaths are now at the lowest rate since since the second week of July.
Josie Taylor | May 10, 2021
On Thursday the Biden administration announced a conservation plan called “America the Beautiful” with the goal to conserve 30 percent of US land and water by 2030. They are calling it the nation’s first national conservation goal and made a warning about the bad effects climate change is having on the country’s land.
This goal will be voluntary and locally-led, yet they hope everyone will participate. Officials in the Biden administration said that Earth is in a “catastrophic extinction crisis,” and warned that we need to protect our environment and biodiversity.
Brenda Mallory, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality said that, “nature in America is in trouble and Americans across the country are seeing and feeling the impact.” She then said that this plan is a necessity, and that we need “all hands on deck.”
Biden-Harris Administration Outlines “America the Beautiful” Initiative
Monday May 10th, 2021 The Biden-Harris administration has outlined a vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore the lands, waters, and wildlife that support and sustain the nation. The recommendations are contained in a report released today (PDF, 540 KB) outlining a locally led and voluntary nationwide conservation goal to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
The report calls for a decade-long effort to support locally led and voluntary conservation and restoration efforts across public, private, and Tribal lands and waters in order to create jobs and strengthen the economy’s foundation; tackle the climate and nature crises; and address inequitable access to the outdoors.
Ag has mixed reactions to Biden-Harris administration s America the Beautiful initiative
The Biden-Harris Administration outlines a decade-long, locally-led and voluntary nationwide effort to restore and conserve the country’s lands, waters and wildlife.
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Agweek Staff Reports | 4:54 pm, May 6, 2021 ×
General Conservation Reserve Program signup begins in January 2021, and CRP Grasslands signup begins in March 2021. (North Dakota Game and Fish Department)
The Biden-Harris administration on Thursday released its plan to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. The plan received a mixed reaction from agriculture groups.
The report outlined a locally-led and voluntary nationwide system. It calls for the conservation and restoration of public, private, and Tribal lands and waters and indicates that doing so would create jobs, strengthen the economy, tackle the climate crises and expand access to the outdoors, according to the U.S. Depar