University of Maine researchers are working to repurpose the aging blades for new products and also to keep the waste out of landfills.
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The dairy business is a tough one, and Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro wants millions of dollars in funding to help farmers mitigate the risk.
Shapiro’s latest budget pitch includes $5.6 million to create a state subsidy that would lessen sign-up costs for a federal program that gives farmers direct payments to help them deal with volatile milk and feed prices.
Pennsylvania has 4,940 dairy farms. Of those, 1,778 are enrolled in the federal Dairy Margin Coverage Protection Program, which made $102 million in payments statewide last year.
Butler County dairy farmer William Thiele said some farmers don’t want government support, while others might not know the program exists.
Pennsylvania state Reps. Emily Kinkead (D., Allegheny) and Marci Mustello (R., Butler) are looking to Minnesota as a model for legislation that would enable Shapiro’s ask. But while agriculture investments have received bipartisan support in Harrisburg, total spending is already raising hackles.
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BORDENTOWN CITY, NJ – Join the Bordentown City Environmental Commission (BCEC) to help rid one of the community’s parks of invasive species.
The BCEC will be hosting a Garden Work Day on Sunday, May 19 12PM to 2PM at Lime Kiln Alley Park to remove invasive plants from the park.
Invasive plants can degrade soil, which leads to erosion that can lower the quality of water, and can also crowd-out and kill important tree species that provide shade, carbon storage and habitats for native wildlife.
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WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey promised another win against EPA after his successful Supreme Court takedown of the Obama Clean Power Plan
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey
By Lesley Clark, Niina H. Farah | E&E News 05/09/2024
Twenty-five Republican-led states on Thursday kicked off the latest legal fight over the Biden administration’s rule to tackle the second-largest U.S. source of planet-warming emissions.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sets up a familiar rematch between the nation’s leading environmental regulator and a host of red states that have challenged Biden initiatives and scored a major win at the Supreme Court in 2022 that limited EPA’s climate authority.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the Republican who led the Supreme Court challenge to the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, on Thursday promised a repeat courtroom victory against EPA and its new rule targeting emissions from existing coal-fired power plants and new gas facilities.
“This rule strips the states of important discretion while using technologies that don’t work in the real world — this administration packaged this rule with several other rules aimed at destroying traditional energy providers,” Morrisey said in a statement. “We are confident we will once again prevail in court against this rogue agency.”
The states also plan to ask the D.C. Circuit to temporarily stop President Joe Biden’s power plant rule from going into effect, Morrisey’s office said.
The state coalition, also led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, filed the lawsuit as soon as it was possible — the same day the final version of the rule was published in the Federal Register.
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April 2024 saw trillions of periodical insects begin their descent on the midwest and southeast of the United States. They caused so much noise that local residents called the police to complain.
These insects are called cicadas. Two broods of cicadas, Brood XIX and Brood XIII — which come out every 13 years and 17 years respectively, are emerging at the same time for the first time in 200 years
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