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Cleaning up after the toxic refuse of abandoned coal mines - Grist
WEBFeb 9, 2022 · That law put in place regulations for active coal mines and created a fund to remediate mines abandoned prior to 1977 by imposing a tax on coal — currently 22.4 cents per ton for surface mines ...
Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
WEBJul 30, 2024 · One of the smallest, and potentially most worrisome, animals being affected are insect pollinators, like bees, flies, butterflies, and moths. These arthropods are crucial for our food system: They ...
Summer forecast: Extreme heat with a chance of rolling blackouts
WEBMay 20, 2022 · That means an unreliable grid. When there isn’t enough power, operators set off outages, rolling blackouts, to avoid long-term damage to the grid. About two-thirds of the U.S. is vulnerable to a ...
Ask Umbra: Is my compost pile contributing to climate change?
WEBFeb 27, 2014 · The lovingly tended pile or bin in your backyard is, unlike a landfill, an aerobic (oxygenated) environment. And aerobic decomposition results in carbon dioxide (again, as part of the natural ...
What is a green job? - Grist
WEBDec 12, 2008 · Uncategorized. Share/Republish. Green jobs are living-wage, career-track jobs that contribute to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. They have some important characteristics: Green jobs ...
Here's why this new fracking ban in the Northeast is a big deal
WEBMar 3, 2021 · The ban, which outlaws fracking in Marcellus Shale gas deposits in the parts of the four states that fall within the basin’s boundaries, is the result of more than a decade of work by regional ...
Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N
WEBAug 16, 2012 · Read all 400+ pages of Agenda 21 on the U.N.’s website, or check out these past stories in Grist: Paranoia strikes deep: GOP exposes ‘dangerous’ U.N. sustainability plot. Of soccer moms and ...
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What is the Indigenous landback movement — and can it help the …
WEBNov 25, 2020 · The past, present, and future of the landback movement. Nickita Longman is a Saulteaux* woman from George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. Longman is a writer and community organizer ...