• EarthTalk Q&A: Factory Butte Controversy

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The kerfuffle over Factory Butte, a 6,300-foot peak in Wayne County, Utah about 25 miles east of Capitol Reef National Park, stems from the on-again, off-again nature of federal rules about whether Off-Road Vehicles (ORVs) should be allowed to roam the 5,400 acres...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: ¿Cuándo superarán en número los Autos Eléctricos a los de Combustión?

    Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Los vehículos eléctricos (VE) han existido casi tanto tiempo como los propios automóviles. De hecho, los vehículos eléctricos primitivos eran la forma dominante de transporte automotor en los albores de la era del automóvil en Europa y los Estados Unidos a fines del...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: When will Electronic Vehicles outnumber combustion cars?

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Electric vehicles (EVs) have been around about as long as cars themselves. In fact, primitive EVs were the dominant form of automotive transportation at the dawn of the auto age in Europe and the U.S. in the late 19th century. It wasn’t until...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: Is recycling still worthwile in the USA?

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The short answer is yes, it’s still worthwhile for us to recycle, even if it’s not as easy and more expensive than it used to be—especially when you consider the costly and environmentally dubious alternative of creating new products out of all-virgin materials....
  • Trabajadores agrícolas y defensores se regocijan cuando CA termina la venta de un tipo de pesticida tóxico

    BAKERSFIELD, California – Los grupos de trabajadores agrícolas están celebrando el fin de una batalla de al menos una década para prohibir un pesticida tóxico en California luego de que la Agencia de Protección Ambiental del estado anunciara un nuevo acuerdo con los fabricantes de clorpirifos. El pesticida ya...
  • Farmworkers, Advocates Rejoice as CA Ends Sale of Chlorpyrifos

    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Farmworkers’ groups are celebrating the end of at least a decade-long battle to ban a toxic pesticide in California after the state Environmental Protection Agency announced a new deal with manufacturers of chlorpyrifos. The pesticide no longer will be sold to growers in California after Feb. 6....
  • TierraTalk Q&A: Tormentas en ciudades costeras

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Grandes tormentas como Katrina, Sandy y Harvey fueron devastadoras para las poblaciones locales y reformaron los paisajes de las regiones donde tocaron tierra. También cambiaron la forma en que pensamos y diseñamos nuestras ciudades costeras. Esperemos haber aprendido sobre dónde (y dónde no)...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: Storms on Coastal Cities

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Major storms like Katrina, Sandy and Harvey were devastating to local populations and reformed the landscapes of the regions where they made landfall. They also changed the way we think about—and design—our coastal cities. Let’s hope we’ve learned about where (and where not)...
  • NEED IS A WHOLISTIC RECOVER AND RECYCLE APPROACH TO THE ENVIRONMENT

    Most individuals today will accept the conclusion by meteorology’s weather projections. They all include some degree of Global Climate Change. Just this morning, National Public Radio (NPR) commentator stated that this past July 2019 was the warmest July month since weather records began being recorded. The increase was seven...
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