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• Anti-Adani protesters target construction firm Wagners over $30m contract

  10-06-2018 20:00
  Queensland company contracted to build airstrip for troubled Carmichael coalmineAnti-Adani activists say they have launched an escalating disruption campaign against Queensland construction company Wagners, which is being targeted over a $30m contract to build an airstrip for the Carmichael coalmine.Members of the group Galilee Blockade entered a Wagners industrial site at Pinkenba near the Port of Brisbane on Sunday afternoon, dressed as superheroes, as a precursor to further protests. Continue
  
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• Florida homeowners warned over alligators two days before woman killed

  10-06-2018 19:17
  Email sent to community where Shizuka Matsuki livedWarning after 6ft alligator trapped at resident’s front doorTwo days before a south Florida woman was killed by an alligator, an emailed warning about a gator was sent out to homeowners in the waterfront community where she lived. Shizuka Matsuki, 47 and from Plantation, Florida, was killed on Friday at another waterside location in Davie, five miles away. A witness told authorities he saw the woman walking two dogs and then noticed the do
  
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• The Swansea Bay tidal power lagoon would bring many benefits | Letters

  10-06-2018 18:45
  Countries around the world are closely following the UK’s decision on tidal power, writes Nicholas SternYou reported that the government is planning to reject the Swansea Bay tidal power lagoon because it is considered too expensive (UK taxpayers to help fund new nuclear plant, 5 June).The government has not yet announced its decision but it should, in any case, first publish its internal economic analysis of the proposed scheme so that its rigour and robustness can be checked. I have
  
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• Deterring onshore windfarms means higher energy bills – Lord Deben

  10-06-2018 14:31
  Ministers told there is no logical argument against turbines in areas that want themMinisters must come clean to households about the higher energy bills they face if the UK continues to deter new onshore windfarms, the government’s top climate change adviser has said.Lord Deben, the chair of the committee on climate change (CCC), said there was no logical argument against onshore wind turbines in the parts of the UK that want them.Continue reading...
  
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• Why do so many Mormons back Trump? Some say it's about the land

  10-06-2018 12:00
  Trump’s Utah campaign chief shrugs off Stormy Daniels and praises cuts to parks: ‘The land belongs more to me than you’In February 2017, weeks after the inauguration of Donald Trump, a conservative political operative named Don Peay trudged up a steep, sagebrush-covered hillside outside Salt Lake City. Peay served as Trump’s campaign manager in Utah and is a hunting advocate who has gone out shooting with rightwing icons such as Dick Cheney, Ted Nugent and Donald Trump Jr
  
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• A scandal for all seasons: those Scott Pruitt ethics violations in full

  10-06-2018 12:00
  Lobbyists, hand lotion and Chick-fil-A – it’s hard to keep up with the scandals engulfing the EPA administratorScott Pruitt, the seemingly immoveable administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has an eclectic, almost itinerant, taste in corruption scandals.Pruitt is best known for the ethical quagmires in this administration, shared with other Trump cabinet members, such as indulging in taxpayer-funded first class travel and spending much of his time playing an amenable ho
  
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• A scandal for all seasons: Scott Pruitt's ethics violations in full

  10-06-2018 12:00
  Lobbyists, hand lotion and Chick-fil-A – it’s hard to keep up with the scandals engulfing the former EPA administratorScott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency embattled by an eclectic, almost itinerant, taste in corruption scandals, has resigned. Pruitt is best known for the ethical quagmires in this administration, shared with other Trump cabinet members, such as indulging in taxpayer-funded first class travel and spending much of his time playing an am
  
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• Charles Mann: ‘The relationship between population and consumption is not straightforward’

  10-06-2018 08:00
  The science journalist’s new book boils decades of environmental debate down to the starkly contrasting approaches of two key figuresCharles C Mann is a science journalist, author and historian. His books 1491 and 1493, looking at the Americas before and after Columbus, were widely acclaimed. His new book, The Wizard and the Prophet, examines the highly influential and starkly contrasting environmental visions of Norman Borlaug (the Wizard) and William Vogt (the Prophet). Borlaug (1914-200
  
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• 'Australia doesn’t realise’: worsening drought pushes farmers to the brink

  10-06-2018 00:00
  Liverpool plains farmer Megan Kuhn says cows are being slaughtered because there is no way of feeding them after years of extreme weatherIn the south-west corner of NSW’s Liverpool plains, in an area called Bundella, farmer Megan Kuhn runs beef cattle and merino sheep with her husband, Martin.They have 400 breeding cows that will calve in six weeks. Shortly, 89 of those cows will leave the property, sold to an abattoir because the cost of feeding the animals during drought has become too g
  
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