This has been a good week for the future of Tucson First, the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) has awarded the City of Tucson a one million dollar Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grant. Later in the week, in a move that will provide additional opportunities for affordable housing, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, along with representatives from … Read more
President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris have revealed their climate team for the incoming Administration. These historic selections include: Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm for Secretary of Energy. New Mexico First Congressional House District Representative Deb Haaland for the Secretary of the Interior. Former E.P.A. Administrator Gina McCarthy for National Climate Advisor. Brenda Mallory for … Read more
On Monday, February 10, 2020, the Trump Administration released its proposed budget for 2021. If passed, it would launch a New Reactionary Dark Age for the American People by cutting vital programs for the countries most vulnerable and further exploding the national debt. Among the proposals for cuts are: The Children’s Health Insurance Program. (C.H.I.P.) … Read more
There have been five mass extinction events on plant Earth. The sixth mass extinction event is currently underway, i.e., the Holocene extinction, the first that is the result of human activity. The Permian–Triassic extinction, which occurred 251 million years ago, is considered the worst in all history because around 96% of species were lost. “The Great … Read more
This may be hard to believe but it was Republican Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon that led the way in starting land conservation, creating National Parks, launching the Environmental Protection Agency, cleaning our rivers, terrain, and air, and signing the Endangered Species Act. Those enlightened Republican Administrations have given way to an Anti Science … Read more