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US House gives Great Lakes cleanup 5 more years
2014-12-10 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The U.S. House approved a five-year extension Tuesday of a Great Lakes cleanup program that has pumped more than $1.6 billion into removing toxins, battling invasive species and making progress on other longstanding environmental threats. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has drawn rare bipartisan support in Congress since President Barack Obama started it in 2010. It has funded about 2,200 grants for water quality projects across the eight-state region. Among them: dredging sediments laced...
2014 farm bill decisions: The choice of ARC or PLC, and more
2014-12-08 22:55:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The process of enrolling in either the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) program or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program, which began in October and runs through spring, requires farmers to update their base acres and yields, then make a one-time decision for the program they will use for the next five years. read more
We can feed the world without chopping down more forests
2014-12-08 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population - cutting down forests, plowing prairies - is a really bad idea. Whats less obvious, and more interesting/troubling, is that farmland expansion is so harmful on so many levels that its worth doing just about anything that helps us avoid opening up new land - even things that have their own environmental costs. Ive been reading back through the papers of David Tilman, an ecologist at the University...
As excitement builds in the Montney Shale, companies seek more infrastructure
2014-12-05 19:55:32| Green Car Congress
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ET deals: 52% off Dell Inspiron 15 Core i5 touch laptop, 240GB SSD for $80, more
2014-12-04 22:58:46| Extremetech
If you're looking for a new everyday laptop with all-around good specs, we've just spotted an offer for you at the oh-so-tempting price point of $500. A capable processor, lots of memory, a touchscreen and more can all be yours after a huge $540 coupon is applied, slicing 52% off the regular price of this Dell Inspiron 15.
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