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Salk Tests Deep-Root Soybeans for Carbon Storage — 15hSalk soybeans grow roots up to a meter deeper; preliminary data show up to 30% more topsoil carbon. $18M Bezos grant funds Illinois trials.

Rachel Meyers Engineering these traits sounds useful, but they need to confirm it works at scale before expecting wide adoption.

EPA Plans Repeal of Power-Plant Carbon Standards — Sep 11, 2026The EPA is moving to roll back Biden-era carbon rules for coal- and gas-fired power plants, including repeal of the endangerment finding, as part of a broader push under President Donald Trump to ease environmental regulations; the actions are being pursued around the G20 energy ministers meeting in Houston. At the same time, the agency is proposing to weaken public-participation rules for data-center and related pollution permits, a move that critics say undermines environmental safeguards and could accelerate data-center development despite community opposition.

Carbon credits cut clean-cookstove costs across Africa despite growing scrutiny — Sep 7, 2026Africa is pursuing new, coordinated financing architectures to accelerate its food systems and CAADP implementation while leveraging public, private, and concessional funding to attract private investment. Separately, carbon credit financing is expanding access to clean cooking across the continent, lowering upfront costs and supported by billions in commitments and dozens of policies to scale adoption for nearly 1 billion people lacking clean cooking options.

Dana Whitfield The scrutiny on carbon markets is fair but let's not throw out a tool that's actually lowering real costs for real families.

Michigan Aims for Carbon Neutrality by 2050Reporting — Sep 23, 2020Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday signed an executive directive setting a goal for the midwestern state to become carbon neutral by 2050, the ninth U.S. state to take on this target. Whitmer’s plan directs…

Global Permafrost Thaw Accelerates, Study FindsEnvironment — Aug 26, 2026Global long-term monitoring shows permafrost is thawing worldwide, with the active layer thickening at 55% of Arctic sites, 38% of Antarctic sites, and over 90% of European and high-elevation Asian sites, signaling widespread degradation and potential massive carbon release. The thaw threatens infrastructure from roads to pipelines and buildings, as carbon dioxide and methane escape from deeper layers, a pattern documented across 156 sites in the first global assessment led by GWU researchers over more than two decades.

‘Taxation Without Representation’: Trump Admin Battles UN Over Global Carbon Tax — Oct 15, 2025The Trump administration is fighting to block a global carbon tax that a United Nations (UN) agency is attempting to pass quietly this week. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), a UN body based in London, is…

More Than 100 People Left Sick After Carbon Monoxide Build-Up at Ice RinkReporting — Dec 29, 2023More than 100 people were left sick after a carbon monoxide build-up at an ice rink in Western New York on Wednesday. Officials from the Cheektowaga Police Department (CPD) and Fork Fire Department (FFD) arrived at the…

‘Big Con Game’: Corporations Sink Hundreds Of Millions Into Carbon Credit System On Already Protected LandReporting — Jul 24, 2024A large number of carbon credit projects are claiming to preserve land that is already being protected by Brazilian conservation efforts, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Over the past two decades, so-called…

WMO warns wildfire smoke may be undercounting tens of thousands of deaths — Sep 7, 2026Global health and ecosystems are at risk as the WMO warns that escalating wildfires and heatwaves are eroding progress in air quality, calling for coordinated climate and air-pollution policies and enhanced monitoring of PM2.5, ground-level ozone, black carbon, and microplastics. The bulletin also highlights that wildfire-derived PM2.5 can be more toxic and may lead to underestimations of mortality, with hotspots and long-term averages showing troubling trends in places like northwestern Spain, northern Canada, and parts of Africa.

Tom Gallagher My asthma got way worse during that smoky week last summer and I bet none of that shows up in official death counts anywhere.

Republicans Let ‘Carbon Tax Framework’ Slip Through Funding Bill, Opponents Warn — Feb 3, 2026A directive buried in January “minibus” materials is the first step toward carbon taxes or tariffs, several energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Jan. 15. energy and environment bill package…

Supreme Court Weighs Climate Case Critics Call a ‘Backdoor Carbon Tax’ — Nov 11, 2025A high-stakes climate lawsuit from Colorado could soon reach the U.S. Supreme Court — and critics say it’s an attempt to impose a carbon tax through the courts rather than Congress. According to Fox News , O.H. Skinner…

China Downplays International Hopes Of Beating Carbon Emissions Targets Ahead Of Meeting With Biden Climate Czar — Aug 29, 2024China’s top energy officials dampened hopes that the country’s carbon emissions have already peaked Thursday following July reports the country would stop increasing emissions after this year, according to Bloomberg…

Oil Lobby Working With Republicans Behind-The-Scenes To Push ‘Gateway’ To Carbon TaxReporting — Jun 5, 2024America’s leading oil and gas trade group is working behind the scenes with moderate House Republicans to push support for a bill that critics say could lead to a domestic carbon tax, according to an email obtained by…

Oil Lobby Working With Republicans Behind-The-Scenes To Push ‘Gateway’ To Carbon TaxReporting — May 24, 2024America’s leading oil and gas trade group is working behind the scenes with moderate House Republicans to push support for a bill that critics say could lead to a domestic carbon tax, according to an email obtained by…

State Investigates After Poll Watcher Says Ballot Shredding Captured on Video During 2022 Election NightReporting — Feb 22, 2023State officials are investigating a claim that ballots were shredded on election night last year in Carbon County. Carbon County poll watcher Chip Bennett and his wife, Lisa Bennett, originally filed a complaint…

Biden-Harris Admin Doled Out Billions To Nonprofit Whose CEO Warned Businesses That Emit Carbon ‘Have To End’ — Oct 10, 2024The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in August obligated billions of taxpayer dollars to a left-wing nonprofit whose CEO called for the “end” of carbon-emitting companies and for the U.S. to engage in a…

GOP Senate Hopeful Unveils Bill Critics Warn Could Lead To Carbon TaxesReporting — Jul 9, 2024Republican Utah Rep. John Curtis unveiled a bipartisan bill Tuesday that critics fear could be the first step toward domestic carbon taxes. Curtis, who is running for U.S. Senate in Utah, introduced the PROVE IT Act in…

Kansas farmers experiment with perennial grains to fight worsening drought — Sep 4, 2026In Kansas, drought-stricken farms are turning to Kernza, a perennial grain that can be planted less frequently and has deep root systems to improve drought resilience and reduce soil erosion, as illustrated by Bryce Black’s experience near Beloit. While researchers push perennial grains to cut inputs and carbon costs, adoption remains slow due to lower yields, harvesting challenges, and a still-developing market.

Sam Okafor Kernza sounds promising but until the yields catch up, most farmers I know can't afford to gamble on it.

EXCLUSIVE: Dozens Of Energy Orgs Ask Congress To Kill Bill They Say Would ‘Inevitably’ Lead To Carbon TaxesReporting — Jun 5, 2024Dozens of energy policy and advocacy groups signed a Monday letter to Congress to express their opposition to a bill they say could be the first step toward carbon taxes or tariffs. The letter urges House lawmakers to…

UN warns world likely to overshoot 1.5°C, sees possible path back — Sep 2, 2026A group of UN-led assessments warn that the 1.5°C limit is increasingly likely to be breached in coming years, but still callable back down through a sustained overshoot-and-reduction pathway that combines rapid emission cuts with large-scale carbon removal. The consensus remains that while overshoot is not inevitable catastrophe, it will entail decades of heightened climate risks and requires urgent, bolder action across mitigation, adaptation, and governance to keep temperatures from rising further.

Tom Gallagher Betting on carbon removal tech that doesn't exist at scale yet feels like a plan built on hope, not engineering.

Globalist Elites Are At It Again — May 9, 2026In five months, the United Nations will try again to impose the world’s first global carbon tax — and American families will pay the bill if Washington isn’t ready. The vote at the International Maritime Organization…

Couple die of carbon monoxide at Hampshire festival — Jul 22, 2026A couple, Christopher and Kayleigh Coll, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after using a parabolic gas heater, intended for outdoor use, inside their Nissan campervan at the New Forest Craft Cider Festival; the heater was not securely attached to the gas cylinder, leading to a deadly CO leak and a misadventure verdict. Inquests urged heightened workplace and event-safety awareness about portable gas appliances in enclosed spaces, with detailed tributes noting their family role and business selling copper wire trees.

Is Minnesota’s Green Energy Built on Slave Labor? — Jul 29, 2026Minnesota's carbon-free power push relies on solar supply chains linked to alleged forced labor in China, fueling ethical debate over clean energy.