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What’s in Biden’s Tax Plan?

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration unveiled a tax plan on Wednesday that would increase the corporate tax rate in the U.S. and limit the ability…

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America’s New Whale Is Now at Extinction’s Doorstep

techbyn March 6, 2021 No Comments Biden, Joseph R Jr Conservation of Resources Darwin, Charles Robert Drilling and Boring Endangered and Extinct Species Everglades National Park Fish and Other Marine Life Florida Panhandle Genetics and Heredity Gulf of Mexico National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration natural gas Oceans and Seas Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline United States Whales and Whaling

The whale was listed as endangered a few months after the Everglades stranding. Fortunately, the area around the nutrient-rich De Soto Canyon, 60 miles off…

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How Green Are Electric Vehicles?

techbyn March 2, 2021 No Comments air pollution Alternative and Renewable Energy batteries carbon dioxide Conservation of Resources Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Energy Efficiency environment fuel efficiency Fuel Emissions (Transportation)Global Warming greenhouse gas emissions Human Rights and Human Rights Violations Mines and Mining Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline pollution Recycling of Waste Materials Water Pollution

The world’s lithium is either mined in Australia or from salt flats in the Andean regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, operations that use large…

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Reversing Trump, Interior Department Moves Swiftly on Climate Change

techbyn March 2, 2021 No Comments Global Warming Haaland, Deb Interior Department Land Use Policies natural gas Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline Regulation and Deregulation of Industry

WASHINGTON — As the Interior Department awaits its new secretary, the agency is already moving to lock in key parts of President Biden’s environmental agenda,…

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Biden Must Restore the Bears Ears Monument

techbyn February 26, 2021 No Comments Arts and Antiquities Looting Bears Ears National Monument (Utah)Federal Lands Haaland, Deb Land Use Policies National Parks, Monuments and Seashores native americans Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline Wilderness Areas

But around A.D. 1230, two or three thousand men, women and children flourished among those canyons and mesas, people we know today only by the…

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Haaland, With a Key Vote in Her Column, Appears Headed for Confirmation

techbyn February 25, 2021 No Comments Appointments and Executive Changes environment Haaland, Deb Interior Department Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline United States Politics and Government

WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III, the West Virginia Democrat who heads the Senate Energy Committee, announced Wednesday that he would vote to confirm Representative…

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Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal

techbyn February 21, 2021 No Comments Abbott, Gregory W (1957- )Cuomo, Andrew M Friedman, Milton Green New Deal Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline Privatization Regulation and Deregulation of Industry Solar Energy texas Weather

Even if there had been, there was no political muscle to turn such ideas into reality. Though the environmental justice movement has deep roots in…

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Texas Could Have Kept the Lights On

techbyn February 17, 2021 No Comments Abbott, Gregory W (1957- )Entergy Corporation Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline Power Failures and Blackouts Republican Party Solar Energy wind power

On Saturday, Gov. Greg Abbott solemnly declared the state would not see another accident like Thursday’s deadly 100-plus-vehicle pileup on a frozen Fort Worth highway.…