Sierra Club exec Michael Brune digs President Barack Obama's newly announced auto fuel efficiency standard. 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025?! Holy cow, so do I! Even the Prius will have to work harder to meet that ambitious goal. Gripe…
Posts tagged as “conservation”
Enjoy that walleye while you can: we're losing our freshwater fish species at an alarming rate: North American freshwater fishes are going extinct at an alarming rate compared with other species, according to an article in the September issue of…
State Senator Frank Kloucek (D-19/Scotland) circulates the following note asking folks to thank USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack for opening up wetland CRP acres for haying and grazing. Various politicos may try to take credit for their letters and pressure to…
Does ethanol cause competition between fuel and food? Livestock producers think so. Faced with the current widespread drought, the National Pork Producers Council, the National Chicken Council (no, really!), the National Turkey Federation, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and several…
Heartland Consumer Power District honcho Mike McDowell, who blogs mostly to tout his own organization and rub environmentalists noses in the dirt, notes that the United States stinks at energy efficiency. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy finds that…
Earlier this year, Congresswoman Kristi Noem threw her support behind Minnesota Congressman Tim Walz's effort to expand the Sodsaver program. The Sodsaver provision of the current Farm Bill prohibits crop insurance for native grasslands that farmers plow into production, but…
David Montgomery tracks down this video of Governor Dennis Daugaard talking about his super energy-efficient house. The clip comes from the Governor's address to the South Dakota Rural Electric Association's 2011 annual meeting. Inspired by President Jimmy Carter's call for…
My neighbors anticipate that the "community" thrift store steering committee will come to make the hard pitch for the community's money next week, asking the Madison City Commission for $150,000 Monday night, then asking the Lake County Commission for another…