Funding for Agricultural Conservation Programs Essential to Moving Country to Net-Zero Emissions Share Donate
Funding for Agricultural Conservation Programs Essential to Moving Country to Net-Zero Emissions
Mike Saccone
Apr 28, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. A broad coalition of 133 conservation, farmer and rancher, sportsmen, and wildlife groups urged the leadership of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate agriculture committees in a letter to ensure the forthcoming infrastructure package includes robust funding for Farm Bill conservation programs and farmer assistance. They specifically urged Congress to double the investment in Farm Bill conservation programs and to ramp up conservation technical assistance funding.
“Increasing baseline funding for the Farm Bill conservation programs and ramping up conservation technical assistance on the ground will enable landowners to mitigate the impacts of drought and flood, improve habitat, improve soil health and long-term food secur
Scientist: Another Sandy ‘would be devastating’ after BJ’s development destroys Graniteville wetlands
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Staten Island environmental activists are fighting against the Graniteville wetlands development. Sept. 25, 2017 (Staten Island Advance/Erik Bascome) EXT
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Carl Alderson remembers how Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, causing immense flooding and two dozen deaths. Two decades before, he witnessed how a 1992 nor’easter slammed the borough and brought with it ravaging inundation.
In both cases, one fact is “indisputable,” said Alderson, a former Staten Islander and the Mid-Atlantic restoration coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Associations’ Fisheries’ Habitat Restoration Center: The site of the former GATX oil storage terminal, which was a vacant low-lying basin of roughly 650 acres in the Old Place Creek corridor on the borough’s North Shore, helped absorb
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A decade ago, the bankrupt owner of the Greenidge power plant in Dresden, New York, sold the uncompetitive coal-fired relic for scrap and surrendered its operating permits.
For the next seven years, the plant sat idle on the western shore of Seneca Lake, a monument to the apparent dead end reached by the state’s fossil fuel infrastructure.
But today, Greenidge is back up and running as a Bitcoin mining operation. The facility hums with energy-hungry computers that confirm and record Bitcoin transactions, drawing power from the plant’s 106-megawatt generator now fueled by natural gas.
New York and New England Need More Clean Energy. Is Hydropower From Canada the Best Way to Get it?
Two massive projects, requiring hundreds of miles of transmission lines, have left Indigenous communities in Canada, and some U.S. activists, up in arms.
October 4, 2020
Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan live deep within Maine s North Woods and fear that construction of transmission lines for a project called New England Clean Energy Connect will destroy their idyllic existence. Credit: Sally Kwan
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As the sole residents of unorganized territory T5 R7 deep within Maine’s North Woods, Duane Hanson and his wife, Sally Kwan, have watched the land around them known for its natural beauty, diverse wildlife and recreational fishing transformed by decades of development.