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Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies

Legal Planet

SB 605 (2014) took the first step in methane-specific policy, directing the state’s Air Resources Board to create “a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants” such as agricultural methane. Current AMMP projects are anticipated to reduce GHG emissions by about 1.1

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Microalgae could be the future of sustainable superfood in a rapidly changing world, study finds

Frontiers

While long studied as a source of biofuel thanks to their high lipid or fat content, algae are also attracting interest from researchers because of their potential to be a more efficient food source.

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Arguments over Solar Geoengineering Research

Legal Planet

A similar recent case is the gain-of-function research on viruses with human pandemic potential that was subject to a funding moratorium between 2014 and 2017 – although this was controversial, because the same research may help develop vaccines or treatments.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

In 2014, areas where there had been selective logging and prescribed burning survived the high-intensity King megafire Eldorado National Forest. 17] Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo et al, “Pesticide Use Peaked in 1981,” USDA Economic Research Service, June 2, 2014. Villers Ruiz, 2014: North America. Villers Ruiz, 2014: North America.

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

The “climate policies” the authors refer to are ones that would make energy more expensive and result in more bioenergy (the burning of biofuels and biomass), which would increase land scarcity and drive up food costs.

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