
Plastic trash, from big stuff to plastic bags to microscopic-size pieces, is an obvious and growing problem, with solutions being considered (of course, the best solution is to use less plastic)…
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Most plastic, even when “recycled,” ends up being smaller and smaller plastic pieces, that end up everywhere, including in our bodies, with increasing evidence of harmful effects. Read more here:
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Man-caused climate change is not just about a gradually warming planet or extreme weather events, it’s also about increasing health emergences for everyone…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/from-cholera-to-kidney-disease-10-ways-the-climate-crisis-is-wrecking-peoples-lives-acc? mosquitoes, ticks, disease, illness, death
When our local news aggregator site — the Montana Independent News — writes its own local news the articles tend to be biased and unprofessionally written, such as a recent pro-STR piece…
The Montana Independent New article let realtors repeat the nonsense that Red Lodge would suffer with restrictions on short-term rentals,...
Between fracking, methane release and other environmental disasters, we’ve known for some time natural gas is terrible for the environment — a new study says possibly worse than coal!…
From The New Yorker and Bill McKibben: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-smoking-gun-for-bidens-big-climate-decision
News about short-term rentals Red Lodge should consider…
From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/10/18/bozeman-votes-to-ban-some-short-term-rentals-grandfathers-others/? Montana has an affordable housing crisis, and Red Lodge is no exception. We need to...
The dumbing of Montana: state GOP politicians continue to promote their anti-science, pro-extremist agenda by approving wacky and dangerous Prager U for use in our schools…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2023/10/15/state-licenses-prageru-for-classrooms-watchdog-weary-of-extremist-content/ Teaching baloney is not teaching critical thinking skills. Teaching "both sides" does not mean wasting...
More consequences of man-caused climate change, as our farmers are paying more for insurance…
From insideclimatenews: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07092023/climate-change-crop-insurance-increases/? Man-caused climate change is not only causing environmental catastrophes and getting people killed, it's bankrupting people.