{"id":68836,"date":"2025-08-09T00:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68836\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:36:09","slug":"federal-judge-government-must-reconsider-lack-of-endangered-status-for-gray-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68836\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge\u2014government must reconsider lack of &#8216;endangered&#8217; status for gray wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal district Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula, Montana,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cbd-v-usfws-opinion-gray-wolves-montana.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issued<\/a>\u00a0a 105-page opinion\u00a0Tuesday mandating that the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service revisit its decision not to relist the gray wolf for protections under the Environmental Species Act. While environmental advocates cheered, this decision seems unlikely to end the battles that have\u00a0been going on for decades, as\u00a0the\u00a0service is likely to appeal the ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the 1930s, the gray wolf had been wiped out in nearly all the Lower 48 states except for small populations in the remote northern reaches of Minnesota. Wolves had been\u00a0long before then\u00a0extirpated in most states. But the wholesale slaughter of wolves\u00a0in the Western\u00a0states didn\u2019t get\u00a0really rolling until\u00a0the massive slaughter of the bison began in the 1860s, a killing spree that was soon measured in\u00a0mountains of bone, with\u00a0just 300 of what had been tens of millions of the animals remaining by 1884.<\/p>\n<p>The bison extermination was a\u00a0project pushed hard by two Civil War generals, Philip Sheridan and William T. Sherman, who saw it\u00a0as key\u00a0to defeating the Indigenous tribes of the Plains by eliminating their sustenance. Eradicating\u00a0these animals\u00a0greatly altered\u00a0both <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2016\/09\/bison-prairie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ecosystems <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2023\/08\/esc_bison_impact_24-08-2023\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social systems<\/a>. Killing off\u00a0wolves was just one more part of the so-called \u201copening\u201d\u00a0of the West, and although it wasn\u2019t done specifically to destroy the tribes,\u00a0this\u00a0too changed <a href=\"https:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2023\/08\/esc_bison_impact_24-08-2023\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ecosystems<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/nature\/the-wolf-that-changed-america-wolf-wars-americas-campaign-to-eradicate-the-wolf\/4312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social systems<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the 1960s,\u00a0environmental advocates sought to protect the gray wolf. This was first done in 1967 under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Endangered+Species+Preservation+Act&amp;sca_esv=679a45043caa68e1&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifNfIvKxJtLgfvdnMTrrf_KYX8QodA%3A1754504309939&amp;source=hp&amp;ei=dZyTaLX9NaakkPIP6LPuuAI&amp;iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaJOqheJH2g8MyNl6IGxUjDeVLGSxhLfG&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjUpKL55faOAxWtBTQIHZ6FKzAQgK4QegQIBBAB&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=when+was+the+gray+wolf+listed+as+endangered+under+the+ESA&amp;gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ijl3aGVuIHdhcyB0aGUgZ3JheSB3b2xmIGxpc3RlZCBhcyBlbmRhbmdlcmVkIHVuZGVyIHRoZSBFU0EyBhAAGBYYHjIIEAAYogQYiQUyCBAAGKIEGIkFMggQABiiBBiJBUj0d1AAWM5wcAJ4AJABAJgBvAGgAccpqgEFMjYuMje4AQPIAQD4AQGYAjagAtgpwgIKECMYgAQYJxiKBcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGMcBwgIFEC4YgATCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIFEAAYgATCAg4QLhiABBixAxiDARiKBcICBBAjGCfCAggQLhiABBixA8ICERAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGMcBGK8BwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARiKBcICChAAGIAEGEYY-wHCAgsQABiABBiGAxiKBcICBRAAGO8FwgIIEAAYgAQYogTCAggQABgWGAoYHsICBRAhGKABwgIFECEYnwWYAwCSBwUyNi4yOKAHx4EDsgcFMjQuMji4B9QpwgcIMC41MC4zLjHIB3M&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;mstk=AUtExfDsBHL-cXcCr7_Vq6iih3dfhOTif_4_DnyHhLOz5ceMUAi-v9F_gLEIrcEFc5zTL1xsR2zT7TBJt3d6ISeIy5mhX5E9yyuoIQsEQ_wlSo5jdph6oNcOoRHFG-A69f9peoNznPPnOqSYqz8uaOVnDHcxJ1K4F6Ba0tPk16UHd_ZCPcQ&amp;csui=3\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Endangered Species Preservation Act<\/a>, a precursor to the Endangered Species Act. In 1974, the gray wolf was officially listed as endangered under the ESA passed by Congress the previous year.\u00a0In 1978, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ecos.fws.gov\/ecp\/species\/4488\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a>\u00a0reclassified the wolf\u00a0as endangered throughout the contiguous U.S., except for the Minnesota population, which was listed as threatened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in\u00a02011, while gray wolves continued to be listed as endangered in 44 states and\u00a0threatened in Minnesota, they\u00a0were delisted in the Northern Rockies DPS (the Distinct Population Segment that encompasses Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, parts of eastern Oregon and Washington, and north-central Utah).\u00a0Since then, the matter has been in and out of the courts. Judge Molloy\u2019s\u00a0decision affects only the\u00a0DPS since the wolve elsewhere are already protected. There are said to be 1,774 wolves with 109 breeding pairs in the region. Thirty years ago, there were none.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wolf hunters with their pelts. Photo c. 1900. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot2025-08-06at1.15.20PM.png\" title=\"Wolf hunters with their pelts. Photo c. 1900. \"\/><br \/>\nA number of states put a bounty on wolves, a factor that led to the animals being extirpated in all but two states nearly a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>That was when 20 gray wolves from Canada were introduced into Idaho with the idea of restoring the animal to as much of its historic range as possible. The howls heard at the time and ever since didn\u2019t come from the wolves but rather the people who hate them, particularly ranchers unhappy that these predators would target cattle and sheep. Consequently, politicians in those three very\u00a0rural states have worked hard to sabotage the reintroduction effort, which spread to other states. Thanks to the DPS delisting, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming have been especially aggressive in passing wolf hunting laws. In\u00a0Wyoming, outside of a small trophy-hunting area in the northwest part of the state around Yellowstone National Park \u2014 that is, in 85% of the state \u2014 you can shoot a wolf from your car. In fact, you can shoot as many as you want\u00a0since there\u2019s no limit and no license is required. In Montana and Idaho,\u00a0wolves by the hundreds are being killed every hunting season, but unlike the Cowboy State, it\u2019s not quite a free-for-all.<\/p>\n<p>Crossposted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unchartedblue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places<\/a>.<br \/>\nYou can also catch me <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/meteorblades.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@meteorblades.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the Northwest DPS excluded the gray wolf was from ESA listing,\u00a0there\u2019s been a flurry of attempts at relisting, in 2020, the FWS issued\u00a0what was meant to be a final rule removing all gray wolves\u00a0(except the Mexican red wolf subspecies) from protections in the lower 48 states and Mexico. Petitioners sued. Two years later, a\u00a0federal district judge said the FWS had not applied the proper ESA criteria to make\u00a0its decision. This restored endangered\u00a0status in the Lower 48 except for the Northern Rockies DPS, which remained delisted, and in Minnesota, where the wolf was listed as threatened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then-Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland wrote in an op-ed in 2022:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, wolves have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/article\/54\/1\/50\/234599\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">been exploited<\/a>\u00a0for their furs, killed in the name of protecting people, livestock and game species and nearly eliminated through government-sponsored actions. Decades of hard work by states, tribes and stakeholders on the ground, along with federal protections, successfully recovered gray wolves after two centuries of decline to the brink of extinction.<\/p>\n<p>As secretary of the Interior, I am committed to ensuring that wolves have the conservation they need to survive and thrive in the wild based on science and law. I am also committed to keeping communities safe and reducing wolf conflicts with ranchers. It is critical that we all recognize that our nation\u2019s wolf populations are integral to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/species-habitats\/at-risk\/species-recovery\/gray-wolf\/influence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">health of fragile<\/a>\u00a0ecosystems and hold significant cultural importance in our shared heritage.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the FWS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/species-publication-action\/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-reinstatement-endangered?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issued another final rule<\/a>, with\u00a0ESA protections \u2014 endangered or threatened \u2014 for 45 states and Mexico.\u00a0But it continued the delisting of wolves in the DPS, a decision it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/press-release\/2024-02\/service-announces-gray-wolf-finding-and-national-recovery-plan?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reiterated<\/a> in 2024. This was so even though the FWS acknowledged that high kill rates\u00a0in Idaho and Montana could reduce state populations by 80% to 90%, resulting in \u201cfewer than 100 wolves in each state.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the FWS decision, Judge Molloy said,\u00a0\u201cThe service made numerous important assumptions regarding the future condition of the gray wolf without considering what would happen to the species if these conditions, either cumulatively or in isolation, were to change. That decision was arbitrary and capricious given the outsized reliance on these assumptions to offset reduced wolf abundance in the future, which is a certainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FWS also made \u201cnumerous unfounded assumptions regarding the future condition of the gray wolf despite recognizing either limitations on those conditions or bias in the population estimates utilized,\u201d Molloy wrote.\u00a0\u201cWildlife management agencies are likely to find themselves in a Catch-22 as they cannot escape from mutually conflicting dependent conditions: If the federal agency succeeds in restoring the gray wolf, leading to delisting, then the state agencies will depredate the wolf, leading to relisting, engendering a fruitless cycle of delisting and relisting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife activists cheer ruling<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Matthew Bishop, senior attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center, which represented\u00a0one of the two coalitions fighting the delisting in\u00a0the DPS,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/court-western-wolves-wrongly-denied-endangered-species-act-protections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement that &#8220;the Endangered Species Act requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider the best available science, and that requirement is what won the day for wolves in this case. Wolves have yet to recover across the West, and allowing a few states to undertake aggressive wolf-killing regimes is inconsistent with the law.\u00a0We hope this decision will encourage the service to undertake a holistic approach to wolf recovery in the West.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Lizzy Pennock, who has the best-job title ever as \u201ccarnivore coexistence attorney\u201d at WildEarth Guardians, said: \u201cWe feel vindicated by today\u2019s ruling. Anti-wildlife politicians in the Northern Rockies are managing wolves back to the brink of extinction, and it has to stop. Today\u2019s ruling is a huge step in the right direction, finally putting us back on the path to protecting this imperiled and iconic native species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Said\u00a0Patrick Kelly, Montana director for the Western Watersheds Project:\u00a0\u201cThese native carnivores have been subject to years of brutal, unscientific, anti-wolf hysteria that has swept legislatures and wildlife agencies in states like Montana and Idaho. With Montana set to approve a 500 wolf-kill quota at the end of August, this decision could not have come at a better time. Wolves may now have a real shot at meaningful recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">In a written statement, Kate Schultz, senior attorney for the Center for a Humane Economy and a lead counsel in the case, said,\u00a0\u201cJudge Molloy wholly rejected nearly every argument put forth by the Fish and Wildlife Service in their briefs and oral arguments. This decision was a thorough repudiation of the agency\u2019s handling of wolves, and it is a continuation of a long pattern of cases in which courts have found that the federal government has violated federal law and failed to properly protect wolves in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">She added,\u00a0\u201cWe urge the Trump Administration to avoid the further waste of federal resources and taxpayer dollars by standing down on any appeal. Instead of defending a finding so infected with error, the Fish and Wildlife Service should conduct an honest assessment of its obligations under the Endangered Species Act \u2014 a law that was passed in 1973 under former President Richard Nixon\u2019s Republican Administration and with overwhelming bipartisan support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Clark Corbin <a href=\"https:\/\/idahocapitalsun.com\/2025\/08\/08\/wolves-remain-under-state-control-in-idaho-following-legal-victory-for-conservationists\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports <\/a>at the Idaho Capital Sun:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Although the ruling itself does not change the status or protections of wolves in Idaho, one of the lead attorneys on the case said the ruling is a clear victory for wolves and conservationists. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Idaho Department of Fish and Game Director Jim Fredericks and Gov. Little\u2019s spokeswoman disagreed with the ruling and said the courts should stay out of local wolf management decisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\u201cWe\u2019re extremely disappointed with the decision considering Idaho has managed a wolf population above federal recovery goals for decades and sustained more-than-adequate wolf populations since Congress removed them from Endangered Species Act protection in 2011,\u201d Fredericks said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Said Camilla Fox, executive director of Project Coyote., \u201cOn behalf of Western wolves, we are grateful for the Court\u2019s careful analysis of the merits of the case and decision to uphold the meaning and spirit of the Endangered Species Act. Western states have had ample opportunity to follow the science and ethics in their management of native carnivores but have refused to do so. We look forward to seeing wolves receive the federal protections they deserve under one of our bedrock environmental laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">The fight continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\u2014Meteor Blades<\/p>\n<p>WEEKLY ECO-VIDEO<\/p>\n<p>RESOURCES &amp; ACTION<\/p>\n<p>GREEN BRIEF<\/p>\n<p>In last week\u2019s Earth Matters, I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/8\/1\/2335855\/-Earth-Matters-EPA-s-new-claim-greenhouse-gas-emissions-aren-t-a-danger-draws-scientists-contempt\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">had a few words<\/a> about the lies in the Department of Energy\u2019s\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/topics\/climate\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate<\/a>.\u201d DOE chief Chris Wright\u00a0noted in its introductory letter that \u201cclimate change is a challenge \u2014 not a catastrophe\u201d and the report itself argued that not only are greenhouse gas emissions a good thing, but climate change also won\u2019t be as economically harmful as six massive reports\u00a0from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have\u00a0scientifically concluded it could be. Actions to address climate should be weighed against costs,\u00a0the DOE authors assert.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, many more climate\u00a0scientists have weighed in. As the headline in The Guardian put it\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/01\/trump-epa-climate-change-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/01\/trump-epa-climate-change-report\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a \u2018farce\u2019 full of misinformation<\/a>. I wish editors would learn the difference between misinformation\u00a0and disinformation, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>One of those scientists is Natalie Mahowald at Cornell University. \u201cThis is a report written by a couple of scientists who are outliers in their arguments for climate change,\u201d she told the newspaper.\u00a0\u201cThis document does in no way depreciate the value of previous assessments, but rather just cherrypicks the literature to pretend to create a new review.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, every one of the five people Wright chose to write the critical review is an outlier, and every one of them has been excoriated for sloppy, tendentious, and inaccurate work in the past. That is probably one\u00a0reason\u00a0the report was not peer reviewed. Said Andrew Dessler, a climate researcher at Texas A&amp;M University, \u201cIf almost any other group of scientists had been chosen, the report would have been dramatically different. The only way to get this report was to pick these authors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at the climate non-profit Berkeley Earth, noted that the authors had used a chart contained in a paper he wrote but distorted what he actually concluded in the\u00a0paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t the only scientist with that complaint.\u00a0Benjamin Santer, atmospheric scientist (University of East Anglia), <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.68KV7WE?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told AFP<\/a>: \u201cIt \u2018completely misrepresents my work\u2019\u201d regarding the report\u2019s treatment of his findings on stratospheric cooling and climate fingerprinting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/doe-reframes-climate-consensus-as-a-debate\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Said<\/a>\u00a0Robert Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University: \u201cThe report cherry\u2011picks a single tide gauge from my sea-level research \u2026 \u201cThey haven\u2019t managed to bring anybody else along to think of, there\u2019s still the same set of five people\u201d involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Michael Mann, now director of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, told Dennis Pillion at Inside Climate News that the DOE\u00a0report is\u00a0typical of the minuscule fraction\u00a0of scientists who say climate change is not that big of a deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">\u201dAll they\u2019ve done is recycle shopworn, discredited climate denier arguments,\u201d Mann said in an email to the Pulitzer-winning website. \u201cThey constructed a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding. Then they dressed it up with dubious graphics composed of selective, cherry-picked data. There is nothing scientific about this report whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/benmsanderson.bsky.social\/post\/3lv6tnbad6k23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>, Ben\u00a0Sanderson, research director at the CICERO Center\u00a0for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway, posted a thread vivisecting the report.\u00a0\u201cEach chapter follows the same pattern,\u201d he said. \u201cEstablish a contrarian position, cherry pick evidence to support that position, then claim that this position is under-represented in climate literature and the IPCC in particular. Include a bunch of references, most of which don\u2019t support the central argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Oreskes, a science historian and author with Eric M. Conway of the seminal 2010 book Merchants of Doubt, which\u00a0spotlighted\u00a0how a handful of scientists used the same playbook to create skepticism about the dangers of tobacco and climate change, said, \u201cWith this decision, climate change denial is now the official policy of the U.S. government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Meteor Blades<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-31\/how-trump-vetted-scientists-are-trying-to-shred-the-climate-consensus?srnd=phx-green\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Trump-Vetted Scientists Are Trying to Shred the Climate Consensus<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RESEARCH &amp; STUDIES<\/p>\n<p>HALF A DOZEN OTHER THINGS TO READ (OR LISTEN TO)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2025\/08\/02\/will-adding-sugar-cane-to-us-coca-cola-further-degrade-the-florida-everglades\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Will Adding Sugar Cane To US Coca-Cola Further Degrade The Florida Everglades?<\/a>\u00a0By Carolyn Fortuna\u00a0at Clean Technica. Last month Donald Trump pushed for Coca-Cola to switch its U.S. sweetening ingredient from corn syrup to cane sugar. It\u2019s part of a long-term, successful lobbying effort \u2014 the sugar industry is renowned for its ample political donations and easy access to the White House. Is it a coincidence that Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has lashed out at the corn syrup industry, which he has called \u201cpoison?\u201d It\u2019s unlikely. Corn syrup is out; sugar cane is in. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and director of the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/consumer\/coca-cola-us-cane-sugar-trump-rcna220181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cboth high fructose corn syrup and cane sugar are about 50% fructose, 50% glucose, and have identical metabolic effects.\u201d Florida sugar growers spread millions of dollars in campaign donations each election cycle to state and federal candidates. For decades, the Florida sugar cane lobby has been an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2025\/08\/01\/renewables-soothe-grid-during-high-season-heatwaves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">adversary<\/a>\u00a0of environmental groups, as its production feeds climate change and disrupts the Florida Everglades. Already, behind-the-scenes talk suggests that current US sugar cane production wouldn\u2019t be enough to replace corn syrup in soda. Has the Everglades \u2014 again \u2014 found itself at the mercy of political machinations?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/05082025\/western-apache-sacred-site-copper-mines\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copper Mines Close in on Western Apache Sacred Site, and the Forest Protected to Mitigate the Damage<\/a>\u00a0by Wyatt Myskow at Inside Climate News.\u00a0On the banks of the San Pedro River lies one of the American Southwest\u2019s few remaining old-growth mesquite bosques\u2014a streamside forest in more than 3,000 acres of riparian ecosystem that is one of Arizona\u2019s last intact landscapes. Known as the 7B Ranch, the mesquite forest is vital to the area\u2019s biodiversity. It is the centerpiece of a land exchange between Resolution Copper and the federal government that paves the way for the company to dig a massive copper mine roughly 60 miles north that will lead to the destruction of a site sacred to the Western Apache. The San Carlos Apache Tribe has been<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/18042025\/oak-flat-western-apache-resolution-copper-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0fighting\u00a0<\/a>for years<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/18042025\/oak-flat-western-apache-resolution-copper-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0against the proposed Resolution Copper mine<\/a>\u00a0and is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/10062025\/court-ruling-keeps-fight-against-mining-oak-flat-alive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">actively engaged in litigation<\/a>\u00a0over it with the federal government. The Trump administration has signaled it will approve the mine once pending litigation over the case is resolved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Through a Department of Energy investment via the 2009 Recovery Act (the Obama stimulus) investment by the Energy Department, the Salt Wells geothermal area in Nevada has yielded several developments, including the 13 megawatt Salt Wells plant that Enel Power operates today.&#10;&#10;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot2025-08-05at9.25.04PM.png\" title=\"Through a Department of Energy investment via the 2009 Recovery Act (the Obama stimulus) investment by the Energy Department, the Salt Wells geothermal area in Nevada has yielded several developments, including the 13 megawatt Salt Wells plant that Enel Power operates today.&#10;&#10;\"\/><br \/>\nThe 13-megawatt Salt Wells, Nevada, geothermal plant was built thanks to a Department of Energy investment via the 2009 Recovery Act (the Obama stimulus). The plant is operated by Enel Green Power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2025\/08\/04\/what-makes-geothermal-energy-so-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What Makes Geothermal Energy So Special?<\/a>\u00a0By Tina Casey at Clean Technica.\u00a0The new \u201cAmerican Energy Dominance\u201d policy became the law of the land earlier this year, with the aim of supporting U.S. fossil energy production along with nuclear, while stuffing the wind and solar genies back in the bottle. Now along comes geothermal energy to throw a honking big monkey wrench into the works, competing against both nuclear and conventional fuel for a generous slice of the baseload power generation market. If you\u2019re wondering why a renewable resource like geothermal energy is poised to compete for baseload power within the constraints of today\u2019s federal energy policy, that\u2019s a good question. Nevertheless, the American Energy Dominance plan excludes wind and solar from federal support, but it does embrace geothermal energy. The magic word is baseload. Geothermal energy can compete directly against coal and gas for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/topics\/geothermal-energy\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">baseload power generation<\/a>, delivering a reliable stream of electricity on a 24\/7 basis regardless of the weather.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/utahforge.com\/hot-springs-and-geothermal-energy-webinar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here is a detailed webinar on geothermal. The technical stuff is\u00a0in plain English.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/business\/climate-disasters-are-killing-small-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Climate disasters are killing small businesses<\/a>\u00a0by Tik Root at Grist.\u00a0Whether it\u2019s hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, or ice storms, small businesses are more vulnerable to climate shocks than larger businesses, said Shehryar Nabi, a senior research associate at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program. He co-wrote a recent report outlining the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Surviving-the-Storm-V2-FIN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hurdles small businesses face from severe weather<\/a>. They can be hobbled by a range of challenges, from limited preparation resources \u00a0to a lack of post-disaster financing. \u201cOne reason we focused on small businesses here is because of their importance to the U.S. economy,\u201d said Nabi. That was certainly the case in Asheville, a city known for its artists, breweries, and boutiques. Helene not only destroyed homes and upended lives, it sent the region\u2019s economy into a tailspin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia. =\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot2025-08-05at9.00.03PM.png\" title=\"Researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia. =\"\/><br \/>\nResearcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/04082025\/massive-sea-star-die-offs-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming<\/a>\u00a0by Bob Berwyn at Inside Climate News.\u00a0Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters. After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, they said the die-off was caused by a type of Vibrio bacteria that was previously only known as a pathogen in some shellfish larvae. Vibrio bacteria are more frequently causing problems in a warming world. The bacteria sometimes cause dangerous infections and intestinal illnesses in humans, including cholera. The breakthrough finding will help scientists determine possible conservation or adaptation measures in response to the intensifying consequences of the sea star die-off. Sunflower sea stars, which can grow up to 3 feet across and sprout 24 arms, are critical to West Coast kelp ecosystems, where they devour certain types of sea urchins that can eat through the forests of seaweed if the sea stars don\u2019t check their populations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/sierra\/when-ships-slow-down-everybody-wins-including-endangered-whales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When Ships Slow Down, Everybody Wins, Including Endangered Whales<\/a>\u00a0by Susan Bohan at Sierra.\u00a0An incentive-based program protecting whales from ship strikes also reduces air pollution.\u00a0More than a thousand cargo ships slowed down last year as they neared the California coast in areas where endangered whales migrate and feed, part of a voluntary effort to avoid deadly whale strikes. The inducement to take it slower and thus delay their arrival at port? A sculpted award shaped like a whale\u2019s tail, and kudos for environmental stewardship.\u00a0 A coalition of national marine sanctuaries, air quality districts, environmental organizations, and other nonprofits runs an incentive-based, voluntary program called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bluewhalesblueskies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies<\/a>. It began in 2014 to reduce ship strikes of endangered blue, humpback, and fin whales, as well as gray whales, along with lowering emissions. Every year since, participation has increased and now includes the world\u2019s largest shipping companies.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re very proud to say they are cooperating with this program,\u201d said Jacqueline Moore, vice president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association. \u201cThey love their Whale Tail awards.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>WEEKLY BLUESKY SKEET<\/p>\n<p>x<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\uddf5 Dear Republican lawmakers,<\/p>\n<p>Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires &amp; yes, more smoke. No amount of &#8220;raking&#8221; fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time \/1<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bentley (@bigclimate.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5\/post\/3lvrnwrsxpk27?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025-08-07T02:11:25.831Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ECOPINION<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therevelator.org\/bold-protests-billy-talen\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">We Need Bold Protests, Says \u2018Stop Shopping\u2019 Activist Rev. Billy Talen<\/a>. John R. Platt at The Revelator conducts an interview with the\u00a0often-arrested social activist, who discusses his court case against Monsanto and the lessons it offers for other protestors.\u00a0Around the country a new wave of legislation has attempted to criminalize people speaking out about environmental and social issues or standing up against governments and corporations. Last month legislatures in Minnesota advanced bills that would have made it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/house-members-consider-increased-penalties-for-freeway-protests-and-pipeline-damage\/481444331\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">illegal for protestors to block highways<\/a>\u00a0or associate with people who want to damage oil pipelines. A similar bill in Louisiana also aims to criminalize \u201cconspiracy\u201d to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisianaweekly.com\/louisiana-pipeline-protection-bill-part-of-wider-protest-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trespass on pipeline property<\/a>. These most recent bills join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/free-speech\/rights-protesters\/anti-protest-bills-around-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dozens of similar legislative attempts<\/a>\u00a0that have been proposed in at least 20 states over the past few years. \u00a0To date all of these proposed bills have either not passed or been modified to remove unconstitutional language, but one thing about them remains clear: They\u2019re what the ACLU calls a nationwide attempt at \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-speech\/rights-protesters\/where-protests-flourish-anti-protest-bills-follow?redirect=blog\/speak-freely\/where-protests-flourish-anti-protest-bills-follow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chilling protest<\/a>.\u201d But that makes the need for protest even more important, says Reverend Billy Talen, the head of the singing social activist group known as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revbilly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stop Shopping Choir<\/a>. Talen and his team \u2014perhaps best known\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d2kZ2fxy91g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for their masks of extinct frogs<\/a>\u00a0or their song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BHwMoljh6_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monsanto Is the Devil<\/a>\u201d \u2014 have been jailed dozens of times around the country for their bold and purposefully over-the-top protests. The arrests don\u2019t seem to slow them down: They\u2019ve been arrested nine times this year alone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot2025-08-05at3.50.15PM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot2025-08-05at3.50.15PM.png\" title=\"Screenshot2025-08-05at3.50.15PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-08-epa-vehicle-emissions-limits-wont.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won&#8217;t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder<\/a>\u00a0by Alan Jenn at The Conversation.\u00a0As a scholar of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=h-2TvzUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">how vehicle emissions contribute to climate change<\/a>, I know that the science behind the endangerment finding hasn\u2019t changed. If anything, the evidence has grown that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and threatening people\u2019s health and safety. Heat waves, flooding, sea-level rise and wildfires\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/2752-5295\/ac6e7d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">have only worsened in the decade and a half since the EPA\u2019s ruling<\/a>. Regulations over the years have cut emissions from power generation, leaving transportation as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ghgemissions\/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">largest source of greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. The scientific community agrees that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.268.5213.991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vehicle emissions are harmful and should be regulated<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/chapters\/edit\/10.4324\/9781315197296-6\/cafe-worked-david-greene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">public also agrees<\/a>, and has indicated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2219396120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strong preferences for cars that pollute less<\/a>, including both more efficient gas-burning vehicles and electric-powered ones. Consumers have also been drawn to electric vehicles thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01441647.2016.1230794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">other benefits such as performance, operation cost and innovative technologies<\/a>. That is why I believe the EPA\u2019s move will not stop the public and commercial transition to electric vehicles, but it will make that shift harder, slower and more expensive for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/198724\/wildfire-fighters-labor-conditions-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fighting Wildfires Is Hellish Work. It\u2019s Even Worse Under Trump<\/a>\u00a0by Kate Aronoff at The New Republic.\u00a0As the Trump administration\u2019s climate denial collides with its quest to incapacitate the federal workforce, wildfire fighters are taking a hit.\u00a0Amid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/us-wildfires-rage-trump-staff-cuts-force-firefighters-clean-toilets-critics-say-2025-07-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disturbing headlines<\/a>\u00a0about firefighters being forced to scrub toilets because of staffing shortages, the White House has projected confidence. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins\u2014whose department oversees the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s 11,000- person firefighting workforce\u2014boasted earlier this summer about \u201cfar outpacing the rate of hiring and onboarding over the past three years and in the previous administration.\u201d The department now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/managing-land\/fire\/workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">claims<\/a>\u00a0to have met 99 percent of its hiring goals for wildland firefighters. The reality doesn\u2019t remotely support her declaration. Last year, the U.S. Forest service was already facing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/wildland-firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">45 percent attrition rate<\/a>\u00a0among permanent employees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/forest-service-staff-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reporting<\/a>\u00a0from ProPublica last week revealed that more than 4,500 Forest Service firefighting jobs\u2014up to 27 percent of those positions\u2014were still vacant as of July 17. A recent survey by Forest Service fire managers in California found that 26 percent of engine captain positions and 42 percent of engineer positions were vacant. ProPublica further revealed a frantic letter circulated among high-ranking Forest Service officials by its chief, Tom Schultz. \u201cAs expected, the 2025 Fire Year is proving to be extremely challenging,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe know the demand for resources outpaces their availability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcn.org\/articles\/help-is-not-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201dHelp is not on the way\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by Kylie Mohr at High Country News.\u00a0As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.news\/p\/gish-galloping-off-the-climate-cliff\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gish Galloping Off The Climate Cliff<\/a>\u00a0by Brad Johnson at Hill Heat.\u00a0There are very few practicing climate scientists who are climate deniers, for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/body-missing-woman-found-2-missing-texas-after\/story?id=123990782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">obvious<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/January_2025_Southern_California_wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reasons<\/a>. The few that are still alive today include evangelical conservatives\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/john-christy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Christy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.news\/p\/gish-galloping-off-the-climate-cliff#b-ffb00152-d108-445e-9d11-40d30b141b9f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/roy-spencer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roy Spencer<\/a>\u00a0and oil-industry consultant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/judith-curry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Judith Curry<\/a>.\u00a0And there are a small number of climate deniers with Ph.D.s in other fields, like Canadian evangelical economist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/ross-mckitrick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ross McKitrick<\/a>\u00a0and BP physicist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/steve-koonin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steve Koonin<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.news\/p\/gish-galloping-off-the-climate-cliff#b-1cace313-f613-4939-b37f-4f46d46d7efa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a>\u00a0For decades, the Republican climate denial machine puffed up these deniers\u2019 influence by having them testify\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.com\/2015\/02\/24\/rep-grijalva-asks-for-conflict-of-interest-disclosures-from-gops-go-to-climate-science-witnesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">over and over again<\/a>\u00a0before Congress.<a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.news\/p\/gish-galloping-off-the-climate-cliff#b-1c1179e2-ae6f-4d2f-9f31-f696560553e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3<\/a>\u00a0The authoritarian Trump regime is no longer concerned by Congressional power, civil society, or public opinion, even as Americans die by fire and flood. So the Trump Department of Energy, which is run by climate denier and fracking executive\u00a0Chris Wright,<a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.news\/p\/gish-galloping-off-the-climate-cliff#b-0c7cb4af-044e-43af-a102-2a8c79f38ded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4<\/a>\u00a0named the five aforementioned deniers the \u201cClimate Working Group\u201d On Tuesday, they published an official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.com\/files\/448\/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">climate-denial review<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/hillheat.news\/p\/gish-galloping-off-the-climate-cliff#b-53f70ff1-c108-4429-b061-6d649330ea7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather McTeer Toney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot2025-08-05at7.44.16PM.png\" title=\"Heather McTeer Toney\"\/><br \/>\nHeather McTeer Toney<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2025\/08\/04\/the-global-plastics-treaty-must-move-forward-with-or-without-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The global plastics treaty must move forward, with or without the US<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Heather McTeer Toney\u00a0at Climate Home News.\u00a0(Toney is executive director of the Beyond Petrochemicals campaign, which aims to halt\u00a0 expansion the petrochemical industry\u2019s expansion.)\u00a0While the Trump administration sides with the petrochemical industry, it is time for ordinary people to speak up about plastic pollution.\u00a0Right now, representatives from around the world are gathering in Geneva for the next round of negotiations on the Global Plastics Treaty. Here\u2019s what you may not hear in the official talking points: plastics don\u2019t just magically appear out of thin air. They\u2019re made from fossil fuel-based chemicals called petrochemicals, which are threatening our health, our environment, and the climate. Yet, the producers of these chemical compounds and plastics are being propped up and protected despite striking evidence of how damaging they really are. So we\u2019re clear, this isn\u2019t just about water bottles and straws in the ocean. It\u2019s everywhere\u2014from the air we breathe to our carpets, laundry detergent, and clothing\u2014and it\u2019s killing us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-05\/why-the-world-is-divided-on-a-plastic-pollution-treaty?srnd=phx-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why the World Is Divided on Plastic as UN Treaty Talks Restart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTHER GREEN STUFF<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-24\/utilities-in-australia-using-solar-panels-to-cut-water-evaporation?srnd=phx-green\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Water Utilities Are Using Solar Panels to Cut Evaporation Losses<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eia.org\/press-releases\/toxic-tons-the-largest-flow-of-illegal-mercury-to-the-amazon-exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toxic Tons: The Largest Flow of Illegal Mercury to the Amazon Exposed<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/climate\/troubling-scenes-from-an-arctic-in-full-tilt-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/food-water-watch-lcfs-lawsuit-new-mexico-biogas-monthly-july-2025\/756831\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Environmentalists target biogas as \u2018false\u2019 climate solution<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/investigatemidwest.org\/2025\/07\/30\/jack-links-lobbying-trump-snap\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack Link\u2019s beef: How the snack giant is lobbying Trump and fighting the MAHA movement<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/30072025\/texas-ev-batteries-reused-to-stabilize-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hundreds of Old EV Batteries Have New Jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the Grid<\/a>\u00a0\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/are-gray-wolves-endangered\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Judge Rules Rocky Mountain Wolves Wrongly Denied Endangered Species Protections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal district Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula, Montana,\u00a0issued\u00a0a 105-page opinion\u00a0Tuesday mandating that the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-68836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}