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Forest and air quality advocates in the United States have long argued that manufacturing wood pellets from leveled forests and burning the compressed wood for energy is neither a green nor clean climate solution as biomass industry advocates have long claimed. Now, a recent study in Renewable Energy purports to put unique, broad and scientific […]
Fifty years ago today, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law - establishing protections that saved species such as the bald eagle, peregrine falcon, and gray wolf from extinction. A new report from the Endangered Species Coalition highlights work that continues today to help many species recover, including the chinook salmon in Northern California. Barry McCovey Jr. ...
This Thursday, the Endangered Species Act celebrates its 50th anniversary. Wildlife experts said the policy has been a big help in states such as South Dakota. Since it was signed into law in 1973, the U.S. ...
Conservation groups in Michigan and the Great Lakes region say they'll keep calling for an orderly shutdown of the Line 5 oil pipeline, despite the latest green light from the Michigan Public Service Commission. The commission has ruled Enbridge Energy can install a new 30 inch diameter pipeline segment in its Great Lakes Tunnel. But Beth Wallace - the manager of the Great Lakes Freshwater Campaign at the National Wildlife Federation - warned that an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac would threaten wildlife, just as groups like hers are working to restore habitat in the Great Lakes regi...
A new report found woody biomass is worse for the environment than other fossil fuels. The study showed biomass facility emissions are almost three times higher than other fossil fuel energies. It also finds biomass contributes 3% to 17% of the emissions from the entire U.S. ...