Category: Climate change
Environmental groups take Trump administration to court over order to keep old coal plant running
Nine environmental groups are taking the Department of Energy to court to end its order to keep the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant open past Consumers Energy’s planned closure date.
A Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Made Climate History, But Trump Wants It Gone
The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago, and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere with climate change was published in 1896. By the mid-20th century, scientists definitively connected the effect of human activities to the Earth’s atmosphere, and consensus built that our … [continued]
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A Soy Food Product Has More Protein Than Steak?
There is a plant-based form of food that is packed with protein, though it’s probably not well known in the mainstream. It is called TVP, textured vegetable protein, or sometimes textured soy protein. There is a restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area which has been around for decades that … [continued]
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Radioactive waste once destined for Wayne County will go to Texas instead
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to ship low-level radioactive waste from the World War II-era Manhattan Project to a site in Texas instead of Wayne Disposal.
Feds give key approvals in effort to restart nuclear reactor near Lake Michigan
Operators can now load fuel into the Palisades Nuclear Plant’s reactor, though its owner still needs to pass more regulatory hurdles before it can come back online.