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Clean Energy & Pork Production at Milford, Utah

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There is a strange confluence of clean energy and pork production near Milford, Utah, 208 miles south of Salt Lake City, and 30 miles west of Beaver. Located there, just north of Milford in Beaver County, is the largest solar farm in Utah. It is the Escalante Solar Project, which … [continued]

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Great Lakes Now

Joe Biden was America’s first climate president. Did it matter?

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Joe Biden was America’s first climate president. Did it matter?

By Jake Bittle and Zoya Teirstein

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.

When Joe Biden first became president, some found it hard to believe that he cared very much about climate change.

With a global pandemic raging, the former vice president and longtime senator pitched his 2020 campaign as a return to normalcy and a referendum on the erratic leadership of Donald Trump.

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Great Lakes Now

The History of the Button Industry’s Impact on Freshwater Mussels

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The History of the Button Industry’s Impact on Freshwater Mussels

Ryan Schwegman is a relocation specialist but don’t ask for his help if you’re moving, unless you are an endangered species.

Schwegman is COO of BioSurvey Group, LLC. in Oxford, Ohio. He manages a team of commercial and scientific divers who travel across the Eastern United States, relocating threatened and endangered species before river restoration projects begin.

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