Category: Environment

Who’s Killing Arizona’s Alpine Wild Horses?

ALPINE, Ariz.—Dyan Albers Lowey has made every effort lately to spend quality time with her horses on her small family ranch in Alpine, Arizona. She says it’s good to be around live things these days, especially after being around so much death. For Lowey, the unsolved killing of 36 Alpine wild horses on U.S. Forest…


Mystery Deepens as 36 Alpine Wild Horses are Shot and Killed in Arizona

ALPINE, Ariz.—Dyan Albers Lowey has made every effort lately to spend quality time with her horses on her small family ranch in Alpine, Arizona. She says it’s good to be around live things these days, especially after being around so much death. For Lowey, the unsolved killing of 36 Alpine wild horses on U.S. Forest…


Thorium Innovators Vie for Success

More than half a century after physicist Alvin Weinberg first demonstrated a thorium molten-salt reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a global thorium renaissance may be underway. At least that’s what the Thorium Energy Alliance (TEA) hopes. TEA’s eleventh conference, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, brought together engineers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts who believe thorium reactors…


Colorado to Reuse Water for Drinking, Creating New Supply

Castle Rock, Colo.—When Eric Seufert brewed a test batch of beer in 2017 with water from recycled sewage, he wasn’t too concerned about the outcome. The engineering firm that approached him about the test explained the process, and together they sipped samples of recycled water. Seufert quickly understood it wasn’t too different from how water…


Carbon Dioxide, Blamed for Climate Change, Is Actually Beneficial to Earth and Life: Expert

Carbon dioxide, or CO2, which is characterized as a damaging pollutant by mainstream media and progressive politicians, is hugely beneficial to Earth and life on the planet, an expert has said. Gregory Wrightstone is executive director of the CO2 Coalition, a nonprofit organization with a mission to educate about the role of CO2 in the environment,…


19 States to Investigate Banks for ESG-Style Commitment to United Nations Alliance

The war between states and banks over environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and similar practices has reached the doorstep of the United Nations–19 state attorneys general have launched investigations of major financial institutions’ commitment to the U.N.-convened “Net-Zero Banking Alliance.” The alliance’s website states that its members control roughly 40 percent of the world’s…


Pledge to Cut Methane Fails to Include World’s Largest Feral Populations: Regional MP

Ongoing moves to cut methane gas emissions from domestic livestock, like cows and pigs, fails to take into account the sheer volume of feral animals now populating countries like Australia, one MP has said. Keith Pitt, the Nationals Party member for Hinkler, said current measures or proposals to curb flatulence or belching from livestock needed…


Signing Biden’s Methane Pledge a Betrayal of Farmers: Opposition Leader

The federal government will have betrayed its election promise to support farmers if it considers signing up to the Biden administration’s global pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent, opposition leader Peter Dutton has said. This follows comments from Agricultural Minister Murray Watt on ABC Radio on Oct. 13 that the federal government was…


General Motors Makes LandMark Agreement With Australian Critical Minerals Company

General Motors (GM) has signed a landmark agreement with an Australian company for the production and supply of critical minerals for batteries. The agreement, which is conditional on the commitment of A$106 million (US$69 million), will grant GM the right to purchase uncommitted nickel and cobalt sulphate produced by Queensland Pacific Metals (QPM) over 15 years…


GM Signs Landmark Agreement With Australian Company for Critical Minerals

General Motors (GM) has signed a landmark agreement with an Australian company for the production and supply of critical minerals for batteries. The agreement is critical to secure “all battery raw material to support GM’s goal of 1 million units of EV capacity in North America by the end of 2025,” said GM in an Oct. 11…