Brandon Baker

EPA Denies Texas’ Emergency Request To Use Dangerous Herbicide On 3 Million Cotton Field Acres

Environmental groups believe the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got it right by denying the emergency use request Texas filed in order to use hazardous herbicide propazine to kill superweeds infesting the state’s cotton.

Brandon Baker
By Brandon Baker

EcoWatch -- Environmental groups believe the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got it right by denying the emergency use request Texas filed in order to use hazardous herbicide propazine to kill superweeds infesting the state’s cotton. Environmental groups, public health advocates and organic farmers all pleaded with the EPA to recognize the

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Dubai Ruler Offers $1 Million For Solar-Powered Solution to Global Water Shortage

The prize is up for grabs for institutions across the globe not just in the UAE. Sheikh Mohammed’s prize offering coincided with the establishment of UAE Water Aid Foundation.

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By Brandon Baker

ECOWATCH -- A research institute stands to win $1 million from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and vice president of the United Arab Emirates. It’s no easy task, though. Al Maktoum is searching for a sustainable solution to solve the global water shortage. What’s more—he is requiring that solution to be powered by solar

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Fox Founder Rupert Murdoch Explains Why Climate Change Shouldn’t Worry You

“We should approach climate change with great skepticism,” he said. “Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here.

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By Brandon Baker
Rupert Murdoch

ECOWATCH -- A little bit of climate change never hurt us, if you ask Rupert Murodch. The media and business magnate behind News Corporation and 21st Century Fox talked to Sky News Australia—which he also owns—about why the climate crisis isn’t a big deal. We can’t stop it anyway, he says. It’s not unlike the views personalities and politicians

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British Medical Association Becomes World’s First Health Organization to Divest From Fossil Fuels

As a result of its recent annual meeting, the British Medical Association will divest its fossil fuel investments. The vote makes the BMA the first health organization in the world to make such a decision.

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By Brandon Baker

ECOWATCH -- Divesting from fossil fuels not only makes sense, but it’s in vogue. Students are advocating for it, colleges are doing it, and now doctors are joining the party. As a result of its recent annual meeting, the British Medical Association will divest its fossil fuel investments. The vote makes the BMA the first health organization in

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Carbon-Measuring NASA Satellite To Take Orbit This Week

A NASA satellite will take orbit Tuesday to help the agency better understand carbon’s role in our changing climate.

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By Brandon Baker

ECOWATCH -- A NASA satellite will take orbit Tuesday to help the agency better understand carbon’s role in our changing climate. With the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, scientists can record around 100,000 measurements of carbon dioxide measurements in detail each day around the world. “Now that humans are acknowledging the environmental

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U.S. House Approves Faster Natural Gas Exports

Environmental groups like the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and 350.org spent ample time and resources fighting against the expansion of LNG, particularly Cove Point, a controversial LNG export proposal from Dominion Resources less than 70 miles south of the White House

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By Brandon Baker

ECOWATCH -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that will speed up the process of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Under the bill, sponsored by Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), the Department of Energy will have 30 days to approve LNG exports to non-Free Trade Agreement countries after an environmental review of the LNG

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Scientists Release Landmark Worldwide Assessment Detailing Effects Of Bee-Killing Pesticides

Neonicotinoids threaten “heart of a functioning ecosystem,” says report co-author.

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By Brandon Baker
Kansas Daily Life

ECOWATCH -- The Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA), issued by the Task Force on Systemic Pesticides, documents significant damage to bees and the environment stemming from the wide-spread use of neonicotinoid pesticides (neonics). The report stresses that even at very low levels, neonics and the products resulting from their breakdown in the

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