Climate change is expected to lead to worsening drought conditions and greater heat extremes, along with myriad health problems. And a new web tool created by the Natural Resources Defense Council lets you see read just how badly your state could be impacted by climate change.
Tags: · Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Drought, extreme heat, greenrightnow.com, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kim Knowlton, Massachusetts, Montana, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
Republicans in the U.S. House are again packing budget bills with riders that would strip away protections for clean water, clean air and wildlife. They’re adding these measures as riders on the coming 2012 budget bills, which is how the budget gets tweaked. The problem, say environmental advocates, is that these budget riders also are being used to fly politically unpopular amendments in under the radar, even when they have little to do with spending.
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From Green Right Now Reports
Solar and wind dominate the clean energy headlines, but the nascent geothermal industry also continues to grow. The U.S. geothermal power sector reported a 26 percent growth in new projects in 2009.
In its April 2010 report, the US Geothermal Power Production and Development Update listed 188 projects underway in 15 states.
The Leathers Geothermal Plant in Calipatria, Calif. (Photo: DOE)
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(The following was originally posted Dec. 30, 2009 in the NRDC Switchboard blog, under Saving Wildlife and Wild Places)
2009 was a dismal, tragic year for Northern Rockies wolves. They lost all protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), were hunted for the first time in Montana and Idaho (and continue to be hunted in Idaho), and were killed by various causes in record numbers. In all, almost one third — one third! — of the Northern Rockies wolf population was killed in 2009.
Tags: · Idaho, Montana, Northern Rocky Mountains, OtherVoicesBlog, Rocky Mountain wolves, sport hunting of wolves, wolf hunt, wolves removed from Endangered Species List, Wyoming
From Green Right Now Reports
At least three of Idaho’s wolves have been killed as hunting commenced this week under the first authorized sport wolf hunt in the lower 48 states.
But while the hunt has attracted sportspeople, it has repelled others. A Lewiston-area man who killed the first wolf on opening day told the local media that he has received numerous calls of protest.
Robert Millage, a real estate agent, says he’s been called a “wolf murderer, a fat redneck and other names” in some 50 phone calls and hundreds of e-mails, according to the Lewiston Tribune. (To see a picture of the young wolf Millage killed view the story on Lewiston’s KLEW-TV.)
Tags: · Defenders of Wildlife, endangered species, Friends of Animals, gray wolves, Idaho, Montana, Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf, Rodger Schlickeisen, Suzanne Stone, Wolf hunting, Wolves, Wyoming, Yellowstone
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
It would almost be easier to spot a Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf than to follow the legal wrangling around these once-endangered, recently delisted and soon-to-be-hunted predators.
A quick recap: After a few years of back and forth with environmentalists who argued that the wolves needed continued federal protection, the Bush Administration delisted the animals – took them off the Endangered Species List – in 2008. Enviros sued and a federal court agreed that delisting was premature and that the 1,500 or so wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming were not at sustainable levels. The wolves were restored to endangered status.
Tags: · Endangered Species List, endangered wolves, Idaho, Montana, Rocky Mountain gray wolves, US Fish & Wildlife Service, wolves in peril, Wyoming, Yellowstone
Gray wolves, all but de-listed from the Endangered Species Act protections through a series of government steps this year, have won a reprieve. According to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official, the government will be withdrawing its declaration that the animals are fully recovered.
The move, reported by the Associated Press and various conservation groups, follows a federal court decision this summer that sided with environmentalists arguing that the wolves need continued protections.
Tags: · Endangered Species Act, Idaho, Montana, Wildlife, Wolves, Wyoming
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