The American Chestnut Tree: From near-extinction to recovery?

Standing as tall as 100 feet and measuring as much as 10 feet in diameter, the iconic American chestnut tree once dominated forests from Maine to Georgia and could be found as far west as Illinois with a few stands showing up in northern Louisiana.

By |2023-01-04T10:06:22-05:00January 3rd, 2023|Comments Off on The American Chestnut Tree: From near-extinction to recovery?

CFACT official comment to EPA on Atrazine

CFACT is concerned that EPA is mixing good, properly conducted scientific studies (that show minimal atrazine risk to aquatic plant species) with poorly conducted, largely meaningless studies that combine inadequate data, satellite imagery, statewide crop and atrazine use data, computer models, laboratory evaluations, algorithms, extrapolations and best guesses, along with irrelevant toxicity studies of non-aquatic plant species that were tested for high-level exposure to atrazine-based products.

By |2024-01-29T11:53:51-05:00September 23rd, 2022|Comments Off on CFACT official comment to EPA on Atrazine

Biden’s Transportation Department targets CO2 emissions of cars on highways to push EVs

One week after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could not regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants because the agency lacks congressional authorization to do so, the Biden Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed a rule targeting CO2 emissions from highway vehicles, for which DOT also has no legal authority.

By |2022-07-11T15:51:16-04:00July 11th, 2022|Comments Off on Biden’s Transportation Department targets CO2 emissions of cars on highways to push EVs
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