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Walker donor wants OK to anchor floating bog
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 27th, 2015
Associated Press: A major donor to Gov. Scott Walker wants state approval to keep a 12-acre floating bog away from his property in northern Wisconsin. Richard Uihlein (EE'-lyne) is proposing moving the bog north and fastening it to the lake bed. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1KMTy4i ) reports the plan calls for crews to use barges, a crane and a pile driver to pound large posts through the bog and anchor it to the lake bed. The scale of the project is outlined in an Aug. 17 memo to the Wisconsin...
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Canada: New Democrat climate change plan allow provinces to opt out
Posted by Global News: None Given on September 27th, 2015
Global News: The NDP is releasing a climate change plan that would allow provinces to opt out if their efforts to minimize carbon emissions are as good or better than those of the federal government.
The party says in its plan that money Ottawa would raise from carbon pricing would go to the provinces for reinvesting in further efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Party leader Tom Mulcair, who is releasing his plan in Toronto on Sunday, has said Canada`s climate record has fallen behind under the...
Government firefighting policies, climate change bad for trees in West
Posted by Columbia Dispatch: None Given on September 27th, 2015
Columbia Dispatch: The hills are beautiful, a rolling, green landscape of grasses and shrubs under a late-summer sky. But it is starkly different from what was in this part of northwestern New Mexico before: vast forests of ponderosa pine.
The repeated blazes that devastated the trees were caused by simple things: an improperly extinguished campfire in 1996, a tree falling on a power line in 2011.
What happened after the fire, however -- or, more accurately, what has not happened -- was a departure from the normal...