Tag: farms
US Solar Power Continues To Grow As Storm Clouds Gather
The latest renewable energy report from Ember shows solar and wind in the US provided more electricity than coal in the first quarter of 2025. After generating 50.5% of US utility-supplied electricity in March, clean energy sources accounted for 50.8% of electricity in April, Ember data shows. The Good News … [continued]
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EV Batteries Are Outlasting the Car
“Saying that EV batteries will end up in landfill is a lie. Even if someone took an electric vehicle battery to the tip, someone else would grab it and sell it. They are too valuable and useful to go into landfill.” So says engineer Francisco Shi. You might remember him … [continued]
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Illinois wants to protect the Great Lakes from invasive carp. A toxic mess stands in the way.
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ
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Stateside Podcast: The fight to keep or kill Roundup
Roundup is widely used on U.S. farms, despite lawsuits, health warnings, and billions in payouts over cancer claims. Circle of Blue Senior Editor and Chief Correspondent Keith Schneider weighs in on the science, politics, and future of glyphosate in Michigan’s agriculture under the Trump administration.
Michigan’s fight against Lake Erie pollution didn’t work. What happens next?
Since the 1990s, cyanobacterial blooms have become increasingly common each summer in western Lake Erie. The blooms are cause by an overabundance of nutrients, namely phosphorus, that spills into the lake off farms.