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US regulators should require pesticide makers to more thoroughly tests their products for toxicity to insects before approval, according to a petition submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday by an environmental advocacy group.

The key figure is this one, which shows that new fossil gas exports would replace a lot of overseas renewables, but very little coal, while also generating a lot of new fossil fuel use.

The paper is here, and the lead author has a BlueSky thread about it

In the U.S., around 15 percent of purchases made during the holiday season are returned.

Developing countries are asking 15 international judges to clarify the legal obligations of rich nations whose high emissions have driven the greatest warming.

The reason for the outbreak, Aukema’s lab found, is that the winters had become shorter and less severe. The beetles here at the very southern range of the boreal forest now have just enough warm days between deep freezes to reproduce multiple times. Healthy tamaracks can typically fend off one generation of young larvae. But they’re defenseless against two or more.