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Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year  celebrated  a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the landmark Finch Supreme Court ruling on a Surrey oil well  confirmed that applications for major developments should consider all significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. However, a review of 35 proposed developments across the UK’sContinue Reading

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Proponents tout biomass burial to create carbon credits as a win-win-win for the climate, fire-scarred landscapes and those looking to offset their emissions. By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan Rebecca Gentry can clearly picture the first time she saw her family’s ranch outside of Hardin, Montana, after the wildfire. A week after theContinue Reading

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The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the anti-state pressure group, must implement reforms to be more transparent and less politically biased, according to the charities regulator. The Charity Commission launched an investigation into the IEA in May, based on “perceptions of potential political bias, perceptions of a potential lack of transparencyContinue Reading

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By the mid-1950s, the average American had roughly five times more discretionary dollars in their pocket than they’d had a decade earlier. Whilst this boosted the sales of goods, it also created a challenge: Durable products like cars and cookers lasted too long. So to keep revenues growing companies neededContinue Reading