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[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55703-y by Evelyn M. Mervine 8/1/25 nature communications] | [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55703-y by Evelyn M. Mervine 8/1/25 nature communications] | ||
Commitments to boost low-carbon energy production and end deforestation by 2030 were two key outcomes of the COP 28 conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change1. Together, these measures could make substantial progress towards mitigating anthropogenic climate change and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius2. However, their effects are not independent, and, without careful planning, progress on one could undermine the achievement of the other. | Commitments to boost low-carbon energy production and end deforestation by 2030 were two key outcomes of the COP 28 conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change1. Together, these measures could make substantial progress towards mitigating anthropogenic climate change and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius2. However, their effects are not independent, and, without careful planning, progress on one could undermine the achievement of the other. | ||
=====Mining: A Toxic Legacy for Nevada===== | |||
[https://www.sierraclub.org/toiyabe/mining-toxic-legacy-for-nevada by Sierra Club] | |||
Families across the country live with pollution from irresponsible mining, and taxpayers—not polluters—too often pay for a cleanup bill which has reached $50 billion. Why? Because our mining laws were written 150 years ago for pick and shovel miners. They’re out of touch and out of scale with modern industrial hardrock mining, and desperately need to be updated. We need mining laws that will allow taxpayers to be fairly compensated for the wealth private corporations extract from publc lands, to protect drinking water, the environment, and communities, and to hold mining companies responsible for their pollution. | |||
