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Illegal logging possibly contributes to majority of mislabeled wood in US markets

AGreenLiving

Loggers, for instance, could harvest trees from a threatened or ecologically vital forest ecosystem , then mix wood species to cover up the illegal logging activity. Following transport to the lumberyard, species origin of the timber logs and boards are further misrepresented to allow illegal wood in the supply chain.

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Rising Authoritarianism and Worsening Climate Change Share a Fossil-fueled Secret

DeSmogBlog

from the Paris climate agreement – a move opposed by a majority of Americans – rolled back over 100 laws meant to protect the environment and opened national parks to fossil fuel drilling and mining. for blocking efforts to tackle climate injustice linked to global warming. Trump withdrew the U.S. Brazil, Australia and the U.S.

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Hope in the Midst of Despair - An Environmental Success Story

Green Market Oracle

In 2013 a solid majority of Americans accepted the reality of global warming and called for climate action. Yosemite National Park was removed from a logging bill and the Washington state legislature passed a bill that protects 50,000 acres of land in the Teanaway River Valley. joined the U.K. power plants.

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Trump’s Coup Attempt and his Scorched Earth Policy

Green Market Oracle

Trump wants to delay certification of the election results and then get Republican legislatures to change the laws of their state so that they can flout the democratic will of the electorate and give him their state’s electoral votes. He certainly wants to delegitimize Biden’s presidency, but there is something far more sinister at work here.

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The Symbiotic Relationship Between Trump and the Fossil Fuel Industry

Green Market Oracle

It is an irrefutable scientific fact that if we are to minimize global warming we must stop burning coal, oil and gas. According to a 2019 Columbia Law School report , there have been hundreds of examples of the federal government censoring, hindering, or sidelining climate change science since Trump was inaugurated.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

Cruz has logged more than 160 dives since the age of 10 and has been shooting underwater photographs since he was 12. She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming.