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Posts tagged as “environment”

Green Aberdeen Promotes Sustainability… and United Nations?

I might find South Dakota's religious right wing more tolerable if they'd stop bullying our LGBT neighbors and kids and get back to saying crazy stuff about sustainability and Agenda 21. Here, wingnut friends, look at the Green Aberdeen project…

Frerichs Gets Senate Approval for Watershed Management Bill

Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) got the Senate to advance his watershed management plan yesterday. Senate Bill 2, while significantly watered down, is a positive step toward dealing with drainage and other water quality issues in South Dakota. In its baby-steps…

Committee Sends HB 1029 Revisions to Green Building Standards to House Floor

The House State Affairs Committee amended and approved House Bill 1029 this morning. HB 1029 updates the environmental and energy-efficiency requirements created in 2008 for the construction and renovation of state buildings. HB 1029 updates South Dakota statute to use…

Daugaard Forks Tongue on EPA Regulations, Funding for Roads and Schools

I must give John Tsitrian kudos for catching Governor Dennis Daugaard in a brilliant contradiction. In Tuesday's Rapid City Journal, Governor Daugaard responds to a question about South Dakota's weak regulations on uranium mining by saying, "I don't like the…

DRA Hosts Info Night on Uranium Mining Tonight in Custer

Dakota Rural Action is educating South Dakotans on the risks of uranium mining in the southern Black Hills. The group is hosting a free information session tonight (January 15) at the Custer County Courthouse Annex Pine Room in Custer from…

WaPo: Keystone XL Climate Change Risk and Economic Benefits Overblown

The Washington Post editorial board says opponents and supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline are all exaggerating: Despite what you might have heard, the pipeline wouldn’t kill the planet, nor would it supercharge the economy. You don’t have to take…