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Against the grain

Envirotec Magazine

Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. The southeastern U.S.,

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

Grist

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

The UN describes the health and environmental implications of consuming animal products as “complex” and works to ensure that low-income groups have access to animal-based foods but argues that other, wealthier populations need to eat less of them. Vion, NAMI and ELV did not respond to DeSmog’s requests to comment on this story.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 4)

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

In 2006, TNC received a $1 million gift from the timber behemoth Weyerhaeuser that included a statement that the two entities “agreed to work collaboratively to improve their understanding of managed forests.” They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. I use a nebulizer now.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. The southeastern U.S.,

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