A similar effort to ban forced convict labor in Louisiana was soundly defeated with roughly two-thirds voting against.
4 US States Vote to Ban Forced Prison Labor
Tag: Oregon
Keeping Trees in the Ground
Forest protection was notably missing from the legislation Congress passed in December to jump-start technological carbon capture and storage.
Climate Change Worsening Historic Drought in Western US; Rivaling Worst in 1,200 Years
“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.”