The Ocean Cleanup Project is taking on the massive goal of eliminating plastic from the ocean by going straight to sea and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-scientists-say-robot-fish-can-devour-ocean-plastics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extracting the trash</a>.
Joost Dubois, the director of communications, spoke to The Daily Wire about the project, its unique nature, setbacks, and what it hopes to accomplish.
The Ocean Project <a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> on its website that millions of tons of plastic go into oceans each year, with most of it coming from rivers. Some of the plastic makes its way out to sea, and is trapped in currents where other plastic is collecting in massive garbage patches.
The goal of the project is to get rid of 90% of the world’s ocean plastic by 2040, which Dubois said is an ambition, “but [a] possible goal.”
The project <a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goes</a> into the ocean and puts cleanup systems in regions where currents circulate trash and create the garbage patches. They use a specific speed to catch the plastic in the system, and then pull the trash from the ocean. Once they have it on board, they bring it back to land in order to turn it into recycled products.
There have also been several setbacks along the way, but the group has learned to adapt.
Dubois explained a time when the system broke, creating a potentially massive problem, and they had to learn from the experience.
“The first ocean system we launched in September 2018 broke in December of the same year due to mechanical failure. So we used a plastic floater in that system,” he said, adding, that &#8220;it really was a fatigue failure of the pipe.&#8221;
&#8220;During the watch from the bridge, it was noticed that suddenly a part of the system was floating away, drifting away. And it was after it had broken off,” he said.
However, when setbacks come, they adapt.
“A failure is not always a failure. We learn from it. We try to schedule our learning. And sometimes, when the system broke, for example, we call that an unscheduled learning opportunity. But we definitely learned from [it],” he noted.
Garbage patches in the ocean have the potential to have a negative effect on the health of humans, marine life, as well as the economies of the world.
Two 2014 reports from the United Nations <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2014/06/471492" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that plastic trash creates $13 billion in financial harm each year to marine life.
Discussing the UN report, Dubois added, “And that is a combination of different types of damage. So that&#8217;s really the economic side. It&#8217;s shipping, it&#8217;s tourism, it’s cleanup costs that are currently connected to marine debris.&#8221; He also explained how ghost <a href="https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/our-oceans-are-haunted-by-ghost-nets-why-that-s-scary-and-what-we-can-do--24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nets</a>, or deserted fishing nets, can get caught in boats, as well.
Ocean plastic could also have devastating and unforeseen impacts on people’s health.
He discussed &#8220;a large group of marine animals that are currently under threat related to plastic pollution,” Joost said, adding that “because this plastic is being mistaken for food by fish and other marine life, it ends up in the food chain and eventually becomes part of our diet.”
The Ocean Cleanup turns its plastic into products to sell, such as sunglasses, which it took to market.
&#8220;I think one of the things we&#8217;ve always had as part of our ambition is that we would like to do something with the plastic that we collect to bring it back to shore and try to come up with an approach that would minimize the chance of it ever getting back in the ocean,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So we do work hard to get it recycled rather than landfill it or incinerate it. And that is not easy, but it&#8217;s also not impossible.&#8221;
He also said that the Ocean Cleanup is unique in its approach of recycling in that its plastic is verified as having truly come from the ocean.
&#8220;We hope to prevent [&#8230;] our ocean plastic from [being] mistaken for something else which is flooding the markets right now,&#8221; he said.
He said other companies sell products that they allege is made from ocean plastic, but their plastic does not have the same kind of strict validation process that The Ocean Cleanup’s trash goes through.
&#8220;We built this quite elaborate scheme to make sure that [if] you buy our stuff that you at least know for sure that it is stuff that we collected from the middle of the ocean,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We&#8217;re thousands of miles away from shore where we operate. So we think that is worth some special attention and pricing.&#8221;
The ambitions of the project are two-fold. It seeks to not only use its technology to remove plastic from the oceans, but it also plans to “intercept plastic in rivers before it reaches the oceans,” according to its website. It will do this by heading to 1,000 rivers across the globe and stopping 80% of river plastic from ending up in the seas. It plans to achieve this goal five years after initiating the process.
The project is a passionate attempt to do some good in the world.
Dubois said that they are a non-typical nonprofit, adding, “We don&#8217;t collect money to sustain ourselves. We really collect money to get this fixed and then we go and do something else.&#8221;

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world’s biggest plastic accumulation area, and scientists are hard at work trying to get rid of the debris. 
This month, workers <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11335587/Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch-Watch-incredible-moment-scientists-extract-10-TONNES-plastic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">got rid of more than 10 tons</a> of plastic, with the entire amount that has been removed coming to over 145 tons. However, that amount of materials barely makes a dent, since the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is estimated to hold more than 2.41 million tons of plastic, and it’s only getting bigger. 
In a video <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/1582733541112094722" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to Twitter, massive amounts of plastic can be seen dumped out on the deck of a ship. 
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On October 11 we extracted the largest single catch for System 002 to-date; 10,086 kg of plastic removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after only 6.5 days, bringing us to a total of 145,518 kg extracted so far. <a href="https://t.co/T0n1vVttmK">pic.twitter.com/T0n1vVttmK</a>
&mdash; The Ocean Cleanup (@TheOceanCleanup) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/1582733541112094722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The area is also <a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the Pacific trash vortex, and is made up of the Western Garbage Patch, as well as the Eastern Garbage Patch. The western patch is near Japan, whereas the eastern one is in between California and Hawaii. Rather than forming what some might consider to be a trash island, the patches are actually mainly composed of microplastics, or small plastic pieces, which aren’t always visible. Scientists also recently found that around 70% of debris that gets into the ocean ends up at the bottom. 
The Ocean Cleanup project is attempting to significantly cut down on the amount of plastic in the area over the next several years. Their goal is to get it down 90% by 2040.
The project’s site <a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> that millions of tons of plastic get into the world’s oceans each year, with most of it coming from rivers. The non-profit group is seeking to get plastic out of oceans by conducting massive clean up expeditions, as well as ending the ways that plastic pollutes the environment in the first place.
“This goal means we plan to put ourselves out of business – once we have completed this project, our work is done,” it noted. 
The project’s method of getting plastic out of the garbage patches includes creating an artificial coastline to push all of the plastic into one area. 
“With a relative speed difference maintained between the cleanup system and the plastic, we create artificial coastlines, where there are none, to concentrate the plastic,” the group explained. “The system is comprised of a long U-shaped barrier that guides the plastic into a retention zone at its far end.”
After the system is full, part of the retention zone is removed and its contents are brought onto the ship, and the process repeats itself. The extracted plastic is then taken to be recycled.  
“Catch, rinse, recycle and repeat &#8211; until the oceans are clean,” the group stated.

A plastic bag floats in the ocean off Cebu Island in the Philippines.

Scientists Retrieve More Than 10 Tons Of Plastic From Ocean

Scientists Retrieve More Than 10 Tons Of Plastic From Great Pacific Garbage Patch In Ocean Cleanup Project

A radio interview with New Zealand teen climate activist Izzy Cook went sideways when Heather du Plessis-Allan, Host of Wellington Mornings, challenged the 16-year-old on the reality of her own <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/guilty-celebrities-ignore-our-massive-carbon-footprints-please/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carbon footprint</a>.
Cook, who helped organize <a href="https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/23/photos-hundreds-turn-out-for-climate-strikes-across-nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friday&#8217;s School Strike 4 Climate</a>, hit the streets with hundreds of others in Wellington, Christchurch, New Plymouth, and Auckland — where they demanded that the government step up and address climate change &#8220;for the crisis that it is.&#8221;
&#8220;This year for our strike we&#8217;re focusing specifically on agriculture,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Two of our demands are our main focus: ban synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and halving the herd of cows in NZ &#8230; the government is just not doing enough.&#8221;
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&quot;This year for our strike we&#39;re focusing specifically on agriculture. Two of our demands are our main focus: ban synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and halving the herd of cows in NZ&#8230;the government is just not doing enough.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/CK6RBO4nnP">https://t.co/CK6RBO4nnP</a>
&mdash; Adam Currie (@Adam_Currie_NZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/Adam_Currie_NZ/status/1573071724329209856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cook spoke with du Plessis-Allan about the strike — and about climate change in general — but the interview took an interesting turn when the topic turned to air travel.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/schoolstrike4climate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#schoolstrike4climate</a> &quot;It is pretty ironic,&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/M5a3WwQ9kK">pic.twitter.com/M5a3WwQ9kK</a>
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&#8220;So we would have to apply to have, like, approved events to be able to fly for,&#8221; du Plessis-Allan prompted.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s one thing that you could look at doing,&#8221; Cook replied.
&#8220;Am I allowed to go to Fiji? Is that necessary?&#8221; du Plessis-Allan asked.
&#8220;In the current climate crisis, I don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s necessary travel,&#8221; Cook said, but du Plessis-Allan immediately pushed back.
&#8220;When was the last time you were on a plane?&#8221; she asked.
Cook paused briefly before answering, &#8220;Um &#8230; I&#8217;m not sure. A few months ago, to be honest.&#8221;
&#8220;Where&#8217;d you go?&#8221; du Plessis-Allan asked.
After another long pause, Cook answered: &#8220;Fiji.&#8221;
&#8220;Izzy!&#8221; du Plessis-Allan burst out laughing then, chastising the teen activist. &#8220;Izzy! Don&#8217;t you care about the climate, Izzy?&#8221;
&#8220;Of course I care about the climate,&#8221; Cook insisted — to which du Plessis-Allan replied, &#8220;Not enough.&#8221;
&#8220;You went to Fiji!&#8221; the host said again, still laughing. &#8220;Izzy, come on, mate! Are you serious?&#8221;
After another lengthy pause, Cook conceded, &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty ironic. It is pretty ironic, but to be honest, it&#8217;s not really a trip that I wanted to go on, but I can&#8217;t really get out of it.&#8221;
Cook then clarified that her parents had planned the trip and told her that she had no choice but to go along.
The host continued to press Cook about the trip, asking whether she was embarrassed that her parents had taken such a trip and forced her to take part in it — and whether or not she&#8217;d had a &#8220;terrible time.&#8221;

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> woman who sabotaged the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dakota-access-pipeline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dakota Access pipeline</a> and set fire to equipment to protest the controversial project was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to six years in prison.
Ruby Katherine Montoya, 32, who used a cutting torch to damage the oil pipeline in Iowa in 2016 and destroyed equipment over the next year, was also ordered to pay $3.2 million in restitution, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fires-crime-iowa-dakota-access-pipeline-11f0b30fc86fa2326d8e09fe526d9157" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press reported</a>.
“The sentence imposed today demonstrates that any crime of domestic terrorism will be aggressively investigated and prosecuted by the federal government,” U.S. Attorney Richard Westphal said in a statement.
Montoya, who conspired to damage an energy facility, worked with Jessica Reznicek to sabotage the pipeline and equipment used to work on it. In 2016, they torched a bulldozer and other heavy equipment in central Iowa, according to authorities. Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to similar charges. That sentence was upheld on appeal in June.
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Woman gets six years in prison for damaging Dakota Access pipeline <a href="https://t.co/BXdZpatrdJ">https://t.co/BXdZpatrdJ</a>
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Native Americans and environmentalists fought the $3.8 billion, 1,170-mile pipeline, which was completed in 2017. The opposition was similar to that faced by the Keystone XL pipeline, which President Joe Biden ordered stopped shortly after taking office.
Opponents, most of whom are against fossil fuels of any kind, claimed the pipelines pose a danger of oil spills. Some landowners also opposed the use of eminent domain to build the Dakota Access pipeline, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe claimed it passed over sacred lands. Even though the pipeline has been operational for five years, opponents are still demanding that the Biden administration shut it down.
Pipeline proponents say moving oil via pipelines is safer than by rail, creates jobs and boosts U.S. domestic energy production at a time when fuel prices have spiked.
The Dakota Access pipeline starts in the Bakken Formation shale oil fields in North Dakota and carries up to 750,000 barrels of oil per day south through South Dakota and Iowa and to a terminal in Illinois.

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Woman Who Sabotaged Dakota Access Pipeline Gets 6 Years In Prison, $3M Fine

Woman Who Sabotaged Dakota Access Pipeline Gets 6 Years In Prison

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Far-left Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rashida-tlaib" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI) lectured top bank executives during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on regulatory and oversight matters in the banking industry Wednesday afternoon, but she did not expect the response that she received from the most powerful executive in attendance.
CEOs from America&#8217;s six largest banks were asked to address serious issues by some members, such as the influence of Chinese banks and the impact of war and the pandemic on the economy and inflation. Other members, like Tlaib, focused on woke issues, like the climate change.
The CEOs who were called to testify included Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.; Jane Fraser, CEO, Citigroup; Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO, Bank of America; Charles Scharf, President and CEO, Wells Fargo &amp; Company; William Rogers Jr., Chairman and CEO, Truist Financial Corporation; William Demchak, Chairman, President, and CEO, The PNC Financial Services Group; and Andy Cecere, Chairman, President, and CEO, U.S. Bancorp.
&#8220;You have all committed, as you all know, to transition the emissions from lending and investment activities to align with pathways to net zero in 2050,&#8221; Tlaib began. &#8220;Do you know what the International Energy Agency has said is required to meet our global 2050 net sterile targets of limiting global temperature rise to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.5 degrees Celsius? So no new fossil fuel production starting today, that&#8217;s, so that&#8217;s like zero.&#8221;
&#8220;Please answer with a simple yes or no — does your bank have a policy against funding new oil and gas products?&#8221; Tlaib asked. &#8220;Mr. Dimon?”
&#8220;Absolutely not,&#8221; Dimon responded. &#8220;And that would be the road to hell for America.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s fine,&#8221; Tlaib responded. &#8220;That&#8217;s why sir, you know what, everybody that got relief from student loans, has a bank account with your bank should probably take out their account and close their account, the fact that you&#8217;re not even there to help relieve many of the folks that are in debt, extreme debt because of student loan debt, and you&#8217;re out there criticizing it.&#8221;
Tlaib later claimed without evidence that Dimon &#8220;obviously&#8221; does not &#8220;care about working class people and frontline communities like ours, that are facing huge amounts of high rates of asthma, respiratory issues, and so much more, cancer rates are so high among my communities that I represent.&#8221;
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Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RashidaTlaib</a> challenges bank CEOs to agree to stop funding fossil fuels, is rejected by every single one 
Jamie Dimon: &quot;That would be the road to Hell for America&quot; <a href="https://t.co/U7yr6AbtyF">pic.twitter.com/U7yr6AbtyF</a>
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America’s Top Bank Executive Nukes Rashida Tlaib When She Pushes Climate Alarmism: ‘Absolutely Not’

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Nukes Rashida Tlaib When She Pushes Climate Alarmism

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> became the first state in the world to mandate microplastics testing in sources of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/drinking-water" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drinking water</a>.
“We’ve known about the issue for decades. The public has been asking for governments to do something about it for a good 10 or 15 years,” Scott Coffin of the state water resources control board <a href="https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/09/california-microplastics-testing-drinking-water-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The California Water Resources Control Board unanimously greenlit policy guidelines to test water sources for the plastic fragments over a four-year span. The policy was approved this week, and means that up to 30 of California’s major water providers will be mandated to begin testing their water each quarter for two years, starting in the fall of next year.
“There’s no other place in the world — literally in the world — that has standardized methods for how you do this or has a monitoring program to look at drinking water,” Steve Weisberg, executive director of the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, said. “California is really getting out there and being first.”
Microplastics have been discovered all over the world. The tiny pieces of plastic are found in Antarctica, and human placentas, as well as in rain in North America. They typically end up in water from synthetic clothing that casts off fibers when washed. They also come from plastic being crushed into small bits, and tires that wear down on roads. It’s unknown at what level the plastics are safe for humans, but research has shown they have a negative impact on mammals.
It still hasn’t been finalized which groups will need to start testing their water yet, but they were chosen due to their size and the amount they already treat their water, according to CalMatters.
The new rules are the result of a <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1422">law</a> adopted in 2018 that said the state board needed to create a standard method to be utilized in microplastics testing for drinking water, and needed to make rules for the water to be tested and results reported for four years.
The plan includes timing for the testing practice. As part of the new rules, water systems will need to include information about microplastics findings in their yearly Consumer Confidence Reports. The testing could cost them between $1,000 to $2,000 per sample.
The agencies have asked the state for help to pay for the testing, saying they “anticipate that the cost of compliance with this regulation would require significant investment.”
“The use of new methods would require a demonstration study and place the burden of cost and efforts to conduct the study onto the public water systems,” the Association of California Water Agencies and California Water Association wrote in a joint letter to the board last year. “The human health effects from microplastics is a statewide issue, and therefore justifies use of state funds to supplement the cost born by public water agencies to participate in this process.”

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California Approves First-Of-Its-Kind Microplastics Testing In Drinking Water

California Water Resources Control Board Approves First Of Its Kind Microplastics Testing In Drinking Water

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Citizens of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/switzerland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Switzerland</a> who dare to turn their <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thermostats</a> above a balmy 19 degrees Celsius — 66 degrees Fahrenheit — over the winter may instead find themselves shivering in a prison cell.
The cost of natural gas in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Europe</a> has increased <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/back-to-the-dark-ages-tucker-carlson-details-europes-self-induced-energy-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than tenfold</a> amid the fallout from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, while Russia severed natural gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline last week. According to a <a href="https://www.blick.ch/politik/gfroerlis-muessen-im-ernstfall-bibbern-heiz-suendern-droht-der-knast-id17851055.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Swiss news outlet Blick, the nation’s Federal Law on National Economic Supply permits authorities to fine and imprison residents who consume too much gas if energy rationing becomes necessary.
Those who fail to comply with the temperature mandates could receive sanctions between 30 and 3,000 Swiss francs, the equivalent of $31 and $3,090, Federal Department of Finance spokesman Markus Spörndli told the outlet. Those found intentionally violating the statute would receive up to three years in prison, and those found with negligent violations could be forced to pay 180 days’ worth of fines.
Beyond the temperature controls, residents will be unable to heat swimming pools, saunas, radiant heaters, or warm air tents, while hot water will not be allowed to reach temperatures above 60 degrees Celsius, or 140 degrees Fahrenheit. The member states of the Swiss Confederacy have until September 22 to voice concerns over the law.
In the United States, a heatwave that has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-democrat-made-fun-of-texas-for-power-issues-now-hes-reminding-his-state-to-brace-for-blackouts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> power supplies in California led utility company Xcel Energy to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-residents-find-thermostats-locked-at-78-degrees-due-to-energy-emergency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lock the thermostats</a> of 22,000 people in Colorado at 78 degrees Fahrenheit in the interest of protecting grid capacity. The residents had previously opted into an incentive program that let the firm “ease the strain on the electrical grid” during the “hottest summer days.”
Switzerland produces 30% of its electricity from three nuclear plants. However, in reaction to the 2011 nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, the nation elected to phase out nuclear power by 2034 — a deadline that was recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swiss-nuclear-power-plant-cuts-production-in-middle-of-energy-crisis-to-protect-local-fish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nixed</a> in light of uncertainty about future energy supply. Germany likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/germany-reverts-to-burning-coal-will-keep-two-nuclear-plants-open-ahead-of-winter-months" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the country will keep two of its three nuclear facilities open as reserves through the winter while coal power plants resume operations to generate additional electricity.
Nevertheless, several European countries have already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/french-president-calls-for-10-cut-in-energy-use-will-ration-power-as-a-last-resort" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implemented</a> energy usage restrictions or warned that such policies could be necessary for the coming months. While the legislature of Spain mandated that public air conditioning be set no lower than 27 degrees Celsius — roughly 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit — through the summer, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a 10% voluntary reduction in the nation’s power usage to avoid “last resort” consumption limits.
The European Union has adopted the official <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/climate-strategies-targets/2050-long-term-strategy_en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> of becoming “a climate-neutral society” by 2050 in accordance with the European Green Deal and the Paris Agreement. Citing the failure of hydropower facilities amid drought conditions, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-union-intends-to-flatten-the-curve-for-electricity-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> a “mandatory target” for reducing usage in the European Union, of which Switzerland is not a member.
“If you look at the costs of electricity, there are peak demands. And this is what is expensive, because, in these peak demands, the expensive gas comes into the market,” she commented on Wednesday. “So what we have to do is to flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands. We will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours.”

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Switzerland May Jail People Who Turn Heat Above 66 Degrees This Winter

Swiss Officials Could Jail People Who Keep Heat Above 66 Degrees

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An environmental watchlist angered fishers, and even state political leaders when it &#8220;red listed&#8221; Maine lobsters.
Seafood Watch, an environmental watchlist maintained by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a>, placed American lobsters caught in the Gulf of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maine</a> and the Georges Bank, as well as others caught in the seas off of northwestern Canada, on its &#8220;red list&#8221; of seafoods to avoid buying. Seafood Watch claimed that lobster fishing equipment is harming the critically endangered population of North Atlantic right whales, which get tangled in the fishing gear.
&#8220;American lobster caught in the U.S. Atlantic (Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank fishery) with pots is an Avoid,&#8221; <a href="https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendation/lobster/american-lobster-19701?species=127">Seafood Watch</a> said. &#8220;This fishery poses a risk to overfished or at-risk species, including endangered North Atlantic right whales. Entanglement in fishing gear is the leading cause of serious injury and death to North Atlantic right whales.&#8221;
The list went on to claim that &#8220;current management measures do not go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the species. [Lobster] Pots typically have fewer impacts on habitat, but the cumulative effects of large-scale fishing are likely underestimated. Some measures to protect the ecosystem have been implemented, but stronger policies are needed to protect American lobster&#8217;s role in the food web.&#8221;
Lobster pots are fishing gears that are set on the seafloor or in underwater using vertical lines, usually attached to a buoy. According to the <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2022/09/06/seafood-sustainability-group-red-lists-lobster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portland Press-Herald</a>, fishers use pots or similar gears for catching 14 different species, including the Jonah crab and Gulf of Maine flounder, which have also been &#8220;red-listed.&#8221; Right whales have been known to get caught in the lines, causing serious injury and even death. The Press-Herald reports that less than 340 North Atlantic right whales are alive today.
The Seafood Watch project partners with a number of major restaurants, distributors, and grocery stores; it currently maintains major partnerships with food services distributor Aramark, Bon Appetit magazine, The Cheesecake Factory restaurant chain, and Whole Foods grocery stores. Buyers for these companies use the Seafood Watch listings to influence purchasing decisions and menu selections, often avoiding red-listed seafood, the Press-Herald reported.
Industry groups and restaurateurs blasted the decision.
“Lobster is one of the most sustainable fisheries in the world due to the effective stewardship practices handed down through generations of lobstermen,” Maine Lobsterman’s Association executive director Patrice McCarron told the Press-Herald. “These include strict protections for both the lobster resource and right whales.”
A spokesman for the Red Lobster restaurant chain said that the specific cause of the whale deaths remains uncertain, but deaths from Maine fisheries have declined significanlty. &#8220;Thus, we find it misleading to suggest to consumers that avoiding Maine lobster would benefit whale preservation efforts,&#8221; Red Lobster told the Press-Herald.
The move also caught the ire of political leaders in Maine.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s decision by Seafood Watch to &#8216;Red List&#8217; Maine lobster is simply absurd and flies in the face of common sense,&#8221; Senator <a href="https://www.king.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-from-senator-king-on-absurd-seafood-watch-designation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angus King</a> (I-ME) said in a statement Tuesday. &#8220;The Maine lobster industry – one of our state&#8217;s most important economic drivers and a source of pride – has long been committed to environmentally conscious, sustainable fishing.&#8221;
&#8220;There hasn’t been a whale entanglement attributed to Maine lobster gear since 2004 and no documented right whale death has ever been attributed to Maine lobster gear,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Consumers and businesses must see through this list and recognize that lobstermen are partners in conservation and sustainability and that the delicious Maine lobster can and should continue to be enjoyed,&#8221; Governor <a href="https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-slams-seafood-watchs-attack-maine-lobster-industry-2022-09-06" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Janet Mills</a> (D-ME) added.

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Fishers, Restaurateurs, Even A U.S. Senator Blast Environmental Watchlist 'Red-Listing' Maine Lobsters

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As <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Europeans</a> burn more wood amid an <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">energy</a> shortage ahead of the winter months, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greta-thunberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greta Thunberg</a> and other <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate</a> activists urged officials to discourage such activity in favor of solar and wind power.
Energy prices in Europe have increased <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/back-to-the-dark-ages-tucker-carlson-details-europes-self-induced-energy-crisis">more than tenfold</a> throughout 2022 amid fallout from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>. Over the weekend, Russia severed natural gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline until sanctions imposed by Western countries are amended. While several nations introduce consumption restrictions and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-union-intends-to-flatten-the-curve-for-electricity-use">unveils</a> a “mandatory target” for reducing usage, demand for wood has soared — leading to the rapid harvesting of old-growth forests.
Companies in Poland, Estonia, Romania, and Hungary are reducing timber into wood pellets and exporting them to Italy, Germany, Austria, and other Western European nations, according to an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/europe/eu-logging-wood-pellets.html">investigation</a> by The New York Times. Although the European Union subsidized wood burning over a decade ago as an incentive for households and businesses to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, wood pellets produce more emissions than coal.
“Even if forests are allowed to regrow, using wood deliberately harvested for burning will increase carbon in the atmosphere and warming for decades to centuries — as many studies have shown — even when wood replaces coal, oil or natural gas,” a 2018 <a href="https://www.pfpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/UPDATE-800-signatures_Scientist-Letter-on-EU-Forest-Biomass.pdf">letter</a> written by scientists to the European Parliament explained. “The reasons are fundamental and occur regardless of whether forest management is ‘sustainable.’ Burning wood is inefficient and therefore emits far more carbon than burning fossil fuels for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced.”
Noting the European Union’s “growing appetite for burning forests,” Thunberg nevertheless argued in an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/05/burning-forests-energy-renewable-eu-wood-climate">opinion piece</a> for The Guardian that the bloc’s renewable energy goals “should apply solely to actual renewable energy.”
“We need to drastically reduce all types of greenhouse gas emissions, not only those from fossil fuels. In addition, and not instead of, we must remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Instead of trusting non-existent, unreliable and expensive carbon capture technologies, the best way to do that is to protect and restore more forests,” Thunberg and her associates said. “All subsidies given to burn forest biomass must be reallocated to true renewables such as offshore-wind, solar and geothermal.”
The European Union has adopted the official <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/climate-strategies-targets/2050-long-term-strategy_en">policy</a> of becoming “a climate-neutral society” by 2050 in accordance with the European Green Deal and the Paris Agreement. Thunberg noted that conforming to the latter treaty would be impossible with continual deforestation.
“Forest biomass takes minutes to burn, whereas it takes anywhere from decades to centuries for the climate and environmentally harmful tree plantations to resequester the carbon emitted,” the 19-year-old activist continued. “This equals decades of carbon debts that we do not have time for.”
Several nations have already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/french-president-calls-for-10-cut-in-energy-use-will-ration-power-as-a-last-resort">implemented</a> energy usage restrictions or warned that such policies could be necessary for the coming months. While the legislature of Spain mandated that public air conditioning be set no lower than 27 degrees Celsius — roughly 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit — through the summer, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a 10% voluntary reduction in the nation’s power usage to avoid “last resort” consumption limits.

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Hollywood actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jason-momoa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Momoa</a> just shaved off his signature long mane all in the hopes of influencing people to use fewer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmentalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">single-use plastic</a> items.
The 43-year-old “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aquaman</a>” star revealed the reason for his dramatic haircut by posting a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiJQH3UM839/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> on Instagram earlier this week. “Aloha, everyone,” he said. “Hand me those braids.”
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actor</a> held up two long pieces of cut braided hair while getting the rest shorn down to the scalp.  
“Shavin&#8217; off the hair … doing it for …” he said, before pointing to his shaved head and exclaiming, “I&#8217;ve never even felt the wind right there!”
“Doing it for single-use plastics,” Momoa explained. “I&#8217;m tired of using plastic bottles, we gotta stop, plastic forks, all that s***, goes into our land, goes into our ocean.”
“I&#8217;m here in Hawaii right now, and just seeing things in our ocean, it&#8217;s just so sad,” he continued. “Please, anything you can do to eliminate single-use plastics in your lives. Help me, plastic bottles are ridiculous … we&#8217;re going to keep going — oh, man. Love you guys. Aloha,” the “Dune” star concluded.
The video caption further implored social media followers to “be better at protecting our land and oceans” by eliminating single-use plastics from our lives. He railed against “plastic bottles, plastic bags, packaging, utensils — all of it.”
This isn’t the first time Momoa has taken a stand against plastic. In August, he made waves by distributing aluminum bottles of purified water on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii. He did so to celebrate the airline partnering with his water company, Mananalu, People <a href="https://people.com/movies/jason-momoa-shaves-head-to-highlight-issue-of-single-use-plastic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The actor said the idea for the water company came to him while he was on a flight. 
“It&#8217;s a dream come true &#8230; why can&#8217;t we have aluminum?&#8221; the Hawaii native said. “There&#8217;s sparkling water, there&#8217;s sparkling beer, there&#8217;s soda, soft drinks. Why do I have to have this little single tiny water? So this is my first time being able to do this. So I&#8217;m going to make the announcement on Hawaiian Airlines &#8230; I&#8217;m excited I&#8217;m going home.”
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‘Just So Sad’: Jason Momoa Shaves Long Hair So People Will Stop Using Plastic Bottles

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Experts are hoping to employ a &#8220;dam good&#8221; solution to the continued problem of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/drought" target="_blank" rel="noopener">droughts</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wildfires</a> raging across the western U.S.
Researchers in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> and Utah are reintroducing beavers to parts of the two states in the hope that they will supply water to drought-parched regions by building dams. The researchers told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-utah-scientists-beavers-fight-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a> that dams block river and stream water that can be stored and eventually deposited into the ground, which will also help create a barrier against fires.
&#8220;A lot of the water in California is not from snowmelt. It&#8217;s from the groundwater and these beavers are recharging it for us,&#8221; California State University professor Emily Fairfax told CBS News. &#8220;They are sort of depositing water into the bank that we take out at a later date.&#8221;
&#8220;Beavers move in here and they slow this water down,&#8221; Fairfax added. &#8220;A lot of it goes into recharging the groundwater and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re pumping for irrigation. That&#8217;s what we use for our food. That&#8217;s what we use for our lawns.&#8221;
Beaver dams, constructed out of sticks and mud, prevent rainwater and snowmelt from draining downstream. But the dams also work as both a natural fire break and a reservoir that stores water that slowly spreads out into the surrounding land to create a landscape much more resistant to droughts and fires.
One such dam in Idaho, highlighted by CBS, was the only lush area that remained among acres of land scorched by the Sharps fire in 2018. Video of another dam in Atescadero, California, taken by the outlet, shows the area around the beaver dam lush with water and plant life, the only such ecosystem for miles around.
Beavers had been hunted to near-extinction in the West by the early 1900s. The fur trade erupted in California in the early 1800s, even before the California Gold Rush, but was over by the end of the century because the beaver population had so declined. &#8220;The beaver of our mountain districts has been entirely exterminated and there are but a few hundred survivors to be found along the Sacramento, Colorado and San Joaquin Rivers,&#8221; zoologist Harold Bryant wrote in the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu3UAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA99#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California Fish and Game Journal</a> in 1915.
Beavers are being relocated from lands where they are considered nuisances. Researchers from Utah State University trap the rodents and take them to a lab where they are weighed, checked for injuries, and implanted with tracking chips for research purposes. Once they find an area susceptible to droughts or wildfires, they relocate the beavers to a habitat where they hope they will start a colony. Researchers have also taken to building beaver dam analogs, or &#8220;starter dams,&#8221; to encourage the process. More than 1,000 dams have already been resettled.
&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of a win-win,&#8221; said Nick Bouwes, a researcher at Utah State&#8217;s Beaver Ecology and Relocation Center. &#8220;We deal with the nuisance problem at the same time trying to use an animal that&#8217;s incredibly good at restoring streams and putting them to work.&#8221;
The novel solution comes as the southwest has been dealing with a rash of droughts. Earlier this month, the federal government imposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-government-inflicts-water-cuts-on-states-as-colorado-river-drops-to-historic-lows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">water restrictions</a> on Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico because of low water levels in the Colorado River, as The Daily Wire reported.

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For years, liberal states in New England opposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gas pipelines</a> in the name of combatting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change</a>, yet now that ideological opposition is coming back to haunt them as the region faces a fuel shortage months before cold weather even starts.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-granholm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Energy</a> recently sent New England governors a letter <a href="https://www2.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/19/business/biden-administration-warns-new-england-governors-regional-fuel-shortage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begging</a> them to increase fuel inventories through all legal measures ahead of winter. According to the data, fuel inventories in the region are running well below average. Now, the region is serving as a cautionary tale for all who seek to abandon fossil fuels.
“Years of policy choices to limit pipeline infrastructure means New England must rely more heavily on oil and gas reserves and imports,” Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Research Fellow at the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment Katie Tubb told The Daily Wire.
For example, in 2016, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) <a href="https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/markey-statement-on-kinder-morgan-abandoning-northeast-energy-direct-pipeline-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasted</a> that he opposed a 120-mile pipeline that would have transported gas from Tennessee to Dracut, Massachusetts. Kinder Morgan, the company behind the pipeline, <a href="https://www.masslive.com/news/2016/04/kinder_morgan_pulls_the_plug_o.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abandoned</a> the idea in part because of hostility from local and state governments in the Northeast.
“I have opposed Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline through Massachusetts and New England because of concerns that it could have led to the export of American natural gas to foreign countries, the impact it would have had on local communities in Massachusetts, and its potential to worsen climate change,” Markey said at the time.
“Using New England as a throughway to export U.S. gas to overseas markets might be good for the bottom lines of pipeline companies, but it could raise prices and be a disaster for consumers and businesses in our region,” he claimed.
Now, it looks as if opposition to that pipeline is coming back to haunt his state.
Because of policy choices, the region is largely dependent on foreign imports. The usual suspects are blaming the impact of the Russian war in Ukraine for the pending fuel shortage, but a look at the details reveals that costly regulations and taxes are also to blame for the energy troubles.
“At the same time, many states in New England are party to a cap and trade program &#8230; that taxes greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, in addition to state policies to severely restrict their own energy production and mandate use of inherently unreliable energy resources,” Tubb told The Daily Wire.
All six New England states, as well as Delaware, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia are part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a <a href="https://www.rggi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program</a> designed to cap and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector.
Yet, according to the letter sent by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, New England states now need to reverse course and increase their fossil fuel reserves.
“I urge you to consider what additional steps you can take in the coming weeks to improve preparedness, including using any legislative or executive tools at your disposal, working with responsible state agencies to require increased storage levels, and encouraging industry to voluntarily prioritize increasing gasoline and distillate inventories at this pivotal period of heightened risk,” Granholm recently <a href="https://www2.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/19/business/biden-administration-warns-new-england-governors-regional-fuel-shortage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> New England governors.
After Labor Day, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will be <a href="https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/events/new-england-winter-gas-electric-forum-09082022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">holding</a> a forum to discuss New England&#8217;s electrical heating challenges.
According to Tubb, there shouldn&#8217;t be any mystery as to why the liberal states are struggling to maintain adequate fuel supplies.
“These policies are designed to reduce production and use of conventional fuels, similar to those pursued in Europe — why are these states surprised that their policy chickens are coming home to roost and they are now facing shortages heading into winter?” Tubb pondered, in reference to the cap and trade partnership.
Governors in New England are also <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/new-england-governors-seek-jones-act-relief-spike-winter-heating-bills-looms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> for the Jones Act to be suspended so that they can transport liquid natural gas (LNG) via ships into U.S. ports. CATO recently noted that due to the 1920 law, goods transported between U.S. ports must be U.S.-flagged, U.S.-built, and mostly U.S.-crew, yet no LNG ships exist like that, thus severely blocking the northeast&#8217;s access to LNG.
In total, Tubb claimed that New England&#8217;s energy sector is so fragile that disruptions can now become “catastrophic rather than uncomfortable blips.”
Of course, as we&#8217;ve seen from the Biden administration writ large, energy catastrophe tends to be the norm when climate change warriors are in charge of guiding policy.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Dems’ Manmade Energy Crisis Hits New England: Granholm Begs Governors To Increase Fuel Inventories

Dems' Manmade Energy Crisis Hits New England: Granholm Begs Governors To Increase Fuel Inventories

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