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A similar effort to ban forced convict labor in Louisiana was soundly defeated with roughly two-thirds voting against.
Forest protection was notably missing from the legislation Congress passed in December to jump-start technological carbon capture and storage.
“We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we’re on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts.”