Ignoring the fact that gas taxes pay for only roughly one-third of road costs, a Montana state legislator attacks electric vehicles (& a smart energy future) by asking EVs to pay more in taxes than they already do in electricity fees…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/09/20/interim-committee-passes-two-draft-bills-aimed-at-taxing-electric-vehicles/? double taxation, climate change, EV future better for Montana, fossil fuels lobbyist, Denley Loge
As overpopulation and climate change diminish water supplies in the West, Oregon irrigation districts are looking at innovation to stop water loss from irrigation ditches…
From grist.org: https://grist.org/parched/ oasis civilization, limits to supply of water, wasteful irrigation ditches, "drought"
A good read here on how our flooding in June exacerbated Montana’s affordable housing crisis, featuring Carbon County’s Fromberg (Gov. Gianforte might do well to read it)…
From High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-housing-when-a-housing-crisis-meets-a-megaflood? man-caused climate change, workforce housing, absent state leadership, Livingston, Clark's Fork, Red Lodge
Even though roads are death to a forest Gianforte’s DRNC is asking for permission to build a road in a pristine wild area near Red Lodge, info on taking action here…
From a letter to the editor in the Carbon County News.
Good news about “agrisolar” and how solar panels and agriculture can work hand in hand…
From IndyStar: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2022/09/13/purdue-leading-research-to-grow-solar-and-crops-together-in-corn-belt/66843196007/ farming, ranching, renewables, dual use of land, climate change, extra income
From our Man-caused climate change section: climate change is wreaking havoc with an unprecedented drought in the American southwest…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/us-west-megadrought-climate-disaster? global warming, drought in the West, drought in Montana, water wars, whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting
Overtourism is not just a global problem, it has arrived in Montana and the rest of the West…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/20/national-parks-america-overcrowding-crisis-tourism-visitation-solutions Information from Montana Public Radio: https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2022-03-23/most-montanans-think-tourism-is-overcrowding-the-state-survey-says From responsibletourismpartnership.org: https://responsibletourismpartnership.org/overtourism/ adverse experience for both tourists and locals, environmental degradation, decreased quality of...
Carbon County is under an Air Quality Alert: summer in Montana is now “smoke season” (fortunately, it’s getting a later start this year than in recent years)…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/12/california-wildfires-oregon-washington? global warming, fire suppression in past coming back to haunt us, climate change, raking doesn't help
Your seashores will not be your grandchildren’s seashores, as sea levels rise…
From The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/08/sea-level-rise-climate-central/? global warming, inconvenient truth
Carbon County finally got a break today, with cool, wet weather, otherwise September has been record-setting in the West, and not in a good way…
From the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/08/western-heatwave-records-california-climate/? "drought," global warming, not the Montana we used to know, deadly