The 2006 study of the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Centre in North Dakota found wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada and the U.S. comprise only 17 per cent of the landscape, but may detain twice as much carbon as surrounding agricultural soils employing no tillage management.
The study estimated that prairie wetlands have the potential to offset 2.4 per cent of the carbon emissions produced annually by the burning of fossil fuels in North America at 1990 levels.
The celebrity investor pitched ‘Wonder Valley’ with no committed investors, no Indigenous partnership, and about 27 megatonnes of projected annual emissions.
City Council OKs private equity firm’s purchase of Entergy gas utility, undermining climate goals and jacking up prices for the city’s poorest.
With LNG export terminals already authorized to ship nearly half of U.S. natural gas abroad, DOE warns build-out would inflate utility bills nationwide.
We reflect on a year of agenda-setting stories that charted the political influence of fossil fuel interests in the UK and beyond.
Clearing the PR Pollution
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