News items for May 6, 2024
(Also showing draft and scheduled news items)
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1. OR’s Owyhee Canyonlands is the biggest conservation opportunity left in the West. If Congress won’t protect it, should Biden step in?
Local coalitions are urging the president to fight the climate and biodiversity crises by creating new national monuments. But even some locals who want to see such lands saved don’t want them protected like that.
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2. E-waste generation is accelerating much faster than recycling rates
The volume of e-waste is five times greater than that of e-waste recycled. What can be done?
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3. Sugar, the celebrity runaway zebra, will return to Montana home
A zebra that escaped a trailer and explored the foothills of Western Washington for six days has been captured and is heading to her owner’s home in Montana.
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4. Will the Boise River flood this spring? Here’s the forecast
It’s not a sight unfamiliar to Boise residents. As temperatures rise and mountain snow melts and rushes into the valleys, many of Idaho’s peaceful rivers quickly turn into a turbulent rush.
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5. As another BC drought looms, farmers search for solutions
Across Western Canada, another year of extreme drought threatens local and regional food security. Regenerative agriculture offers a path forward.
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6. Wave data project to help AK subsistence hunters stay safe at sea returns
The Backyard Buoys project is a collaboration between hunters and fishermen with scientists and developers to install small buoys in locations traditionally used for subsistence to monitor the wave data they gather.
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7. Opinion: Why climate advocates should be urbanists
Land use policy is a powerful tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. So why isn’t it a bigger part of today’s climate policy debates?
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8. Gas stove pollution risk is greatest in smaller homes, study finds
Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
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9. Grizzlies are returning to WA’s North Cascades. How will that work?
It has been nearly three decades since the last time grizzly bears were sighted in the region. But last month, federal officials decided to reintroduce the species with 25 individuals.
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10. BP was warned gas-driven climate change could cause ‘unprecedented famine’
Yet the oil and gas major led a campaign to present gas as a climate solution, new ‘confidential’ documents released by a U.S. Congressional investigation reveal.
More News from May 6, 2024
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‘Not a finish line’: For water providers, new PFAS rule is first step
Eight county water systems have some PFAS, though WA deems them safe. Many smaller systems still lack protection.
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Emission-spewing gas lawn equipment harmful to health and environment, says Metro Vancouver report
Metro Vancouver’s climate action committee will review the report at a meeting next Thursday.
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Dump on Marion County farm worries neighbors. OR environmental agency investigating
Some residents, farmers and a farmland conservation group say they are outraged after finding out a local farm owner, along with the services of an excavating company, dug an open pit and allegedly violated state land use protections and environmental laws.