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E-Bikes & E-Scooters on New Utah Trail Will Eliminate Fossil-Fuel-Burning Car Trips

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Here’s how the development of a critical bike trail extension plus the use of Ebikes and Escooters will decrease the use of fossil burning vehicles for recreation in Utah County, Utah, in the future.The Murdock Canal Trail runs along my back property line in Lindon, Utah, and extends 14 miles … [continued]

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Agriculture Farming Great Lakes Now Michigan

Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical

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Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical

Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate.

With the election of President Donald Trump, the conflict over glyphosate’s risks and benefits entered a new realm of confrontation that has the potential to alter its stature as the favored chemical tool in agriculture, the largest user of fresh water in the blue economy of Michigan and the Great Lakes.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.