New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Criticized for Fueling Climate Damage and Amazon Deforestation
Washington, DC — Climate and environmental advocates are raising serious concerns that the Trump administration’s newly released Dietary Guidelines for Americans promote meat- and dairy-heavy diets while failing to acknowledge their well-documented role in climate change, Amazon deforestation, and global land-use impacts. Animal agriculture — particularly cattle production — is a leading driver of methane […]
New Dietary Guidelines Criticized for Fueling Climate Damage and Amazon Deforestation
Climate and environmental advocates warn that new U.S. dietary guidelines promoting meat- and dairy-heavy diets ignore their role in climate change, deforestation, and global land-use impacts—missing a critical opportunity to align food policy with climate science.
Today’s enviro news summary looks at U.S. tree management, Catholics’ hope for tree protection, and EPA employee cont’d job woes.
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Today’s enviro news summary looks at U.S. tree management, Catholics’ hope for tree protection, and EPA employee cont’d job woes.
Sell the trees or fix the forests…or both? Efforts to blunt the ferocity and destruction of wildfires are dividing conservation advocates over proposals that would sidetrack science and allow for less analysis under the country’s environmental law. Critics fear that approach could accelerate unnecessary logging in national forests, according to Rita Beamish and Kurt Repanshek […]
