Environment

Are Wind Turbines a Danger to Wildlife? Ask the Dogs.

by Sarah Zhang
The Atlantic

“As turbines proliferate across the country, understanding their effect on wildlife is more important than ever. In the early days of turbines, scientists had focused on the danger they posed to eagles and other raptors—but it turns out those big bird carcasses were simply the easiest for humans to spot,” according to The Atlantic.

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Biden’s Monkeywrencher

by Kimberly A. Strassel
The Wall Street Journal

“Presidents are generally entitled to personnel picks. An exception might be a nominee who ran with eco-terrorists—who collaborated with Earth First! saboteurs, known for spiking trees to halt timber sales, and who misled senators about the nature of her involvement,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Biden EPA’s web of conflicts with climate groups forces ethics waiver for one official

by John Solomon
Just the News

“The reason? The other political appointees in the EPA office of general counsel (OGC) already have conflicts of interests that forced recusals, leaving the agency without someone to provide legal advice to the administration, according to new government memos unearthed by the citizen watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust,” say Just the News.

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Biden Bureau Of Land Management Nominee Tracy Stone-Manning Was Involved In ‘Eco-Terrorism’ Case, Resulted In College Roommate’s Conviction, Prison Sentence, Court Records Show

by Andrew Kerr
Daily Caller

According to Daily Caller, “Stone-Manning told a local news outlet in 1993 that she could have faced conspiracy charges had she not struck an immunity deal with a federal prosecutor in return for her testimony.”

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Biden to ‘repeal or replace’ Trump decision removing protections for Tongass forest

by Rachel Frazin
The Hill

“But the Trump administration argued that its decision would increase rural economic opportunity and decrease federal regulation. It also argued that it would only cause a “modest difference” in environmental impacts” according to The Hill.

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The federal government should look to private partners to tackle the wildfire crisis

by Jonathan Wood and Holly Fretwell
Washington Examiner

“Expanding opportunities for states and private parties to collaborate on forest restoration, increased flexibility for the Forest Service to tailor solutions to the needs of individual forests and communities, and reductions in red tape are necessary to move federal forests from a tinderbox to resilient, productive forests,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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Poll: Water Pollution, Not Climate Change, Americans’ Top Environmental Concern

by Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart

“A new Gallup poll reveals that water pollution is the top environmental concern for Americans — not climate change, which is the ‘crisis’ that is currently driving policy across a broad range of departments in the Biden administration,” according to Joel Pollak of Breitbart.

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Biden’s Worst Executive Order Went Almost Entirely Unnoticed

by Editorial Board of Issues and Insights
Issues & Insights

“The order also seems harmless enough, going by the seemingly innocent title ‘Modernizing Regulatory Review’. Except this order isn’t about modernizing regulations. It’s about unleashing the regulatory state with a ferocity never before seen in this country,” according to Issues and Insights.

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New Trump EPA policy would rule out emissions controls for all industries but power plants

by Abby Smith
Washington Examiner

“The Environmental Protection Agency has released a rule setting a new threshold for the agency to meet before it regulates greenhouse gas emissions from an industry, a last-ditch effort to protect businesses from strict climate mandates,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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Why We’re Ending the EPA’s Reliance on Secret Science

by Andrew Wheeler
The Wall Street Journal

“. . .  the work of the Environmental Protection Agency—to protect human health and the environment—shouldn’t be exempt from public scrutiny. This is why we are promulgating a rule to make the agency’s scientific processes more transparent,” according to the EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler.

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