Minnesota moves to regulate carbon dioxide pipelines
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Susan Sargent | May 19, 2022
While carbon dioxide is not harmful to humans in small amounts — it’s exhaled in every breath we take — in high concentrations CO2 can displace oxygen within the gas plume. “The fact that purified and highly pressurized carbon dioxide gas can explode out of pipelines and suffocate ...
PEERMail | Getting Climate Right
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Susan Sargent | May 16, 2022
There is no easy formula for stopping, or even slowing, the effects of climate change but we know that inaction is making it worse ...
Interior seeks FOIA reinforcements amid mixed backlog progress
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Susan Sargent |
The Interior Department’s latest Freedom of Information Act report reveals both progress and slippage on the persistent backlogs that officials hope to whittle down with the help of a budget proposal coming before Congress this week. In the second-quarter report of 2020, the backlogged ...
FACTSHEET | Federal Wildlife Funding: Pittman-Robertson Act
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Susan Sargent | May 15, 2022
The Pittman-Robertson Act was enacted in 1937 was intended to promote preservation and restoration of wildlife habitats ...
Environment Groups Want EPA Do More To Protect Manatees, Wildlife
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Susan Sargent | May 14, 2022
2022 is close to turning into another record year for manatee deaths in Florida. In the first two months of the year, there have been 400 manatee deaths, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Now several conservation organizations have sued the Environmental ...