The Independent

The first country to tax farmers for flatulent livestock has been announced.Denmark has become the first country in the world to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing to global warming.  The country will tax for the greenhouse gases emitted by cows, sheep and pigs from 2030.The aim is to reduce Danish greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030, said Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus. As of 2030, Danish livestock farmers will be taxed 300 kroner ($43) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2030. The...

Country becomes world’s first to tax flatulent cows and pigs

(NewsNation) — All the airplanes flying all over the world in 2022 produced just one-quarter of the three billion tons of carbon emissions that came from 2023’s wildfires in the forests of Canada, according to a new study. Researchers from the World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch initiative...

2023 Canadian fires produced 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide: Study

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Do you know anyone who has dual nature? Such two-faced zodiac signs are friendly but they gossip about others behind their backs. They can lie to you without batting an eyelid. However, detecting a two-faced person isn’t easy for everyone. They often compliment their friends when they achieve a goal or change their wardrobe. But they will make negative remarks about you to someone else. What other traits do two-faced people have?

3 Zodiac Signs Who Are Two-Faced

Connecticut Public

We look at the songs from fresh, female artists that are making this summer's best bops. Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.

This summer's music charts are dominated by pop girl underdogs

Grants Pass, OR

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Friday anti-camping laws used by authorities in an Oregon city to stop homeless people from sleeping in public parks and public streets - a ruling that gives local and state governments a freer hand in confronting a national homelessness crisis.

US Supreme Court backs anti-camping laws used against homeless people

Oregon State

Alaska Beacon

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Friday sided with a local ordinance in Oregon that bans homeless people from sleeping outdoors, and local governments will be allowed to enforce those laws. In a 6-3 decision, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the opinion that the enforcement of those local laws that regulate camping on public property […]
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U.S. Supreme Court sides with Oregon city, allows ban on homeless people sleeping outdoors

A man who illegally removed 20 acres of trees in Wales was fined this month for the offense, which caused destruction unmatched in decades. Jeff Lane was assessed a £1,500 ($1,898) sanction and £11,280 ($14,275) confiscation order for the 2019 criminal act on his property in Gower, Swansea, the BBC reported.

Man fined after illegally removing thousands of trees in protected forest: 'The woodland has been effectively eradicated'

Virginia State

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Margaret Minnicks

Many new laws become effective in Virginia on July 1, 2024. However, a law has always existed in Virginia, but some residents might not be aware of it. According to WSET, leaving grass clippings and other debris on Virginia roads is illegal.

It is illegal to leave grass clippings and other debris on roads in Virginia

Louisiana State

BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky. Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate...

How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

Time now for our regular science news roundup with our friends at NPR's Short Wave podcast, Regina Barber and Berly McCoy. Good to have you both back. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. BERLY MCCOY, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. SHAPIRO: So the way this works is you bring us three science stories...

This week in science: a new dinosaur, a lynx revival and an looming star explosion

Anyone with half an eye on the housing market over the last two decades will know that in many countries, not least the United States, it’s become much more difficult to buy a home.

These cities are now so expensive they’re considered ‘impossibly unaffordable’

Track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is again in the spotlight and carries Team USA's Olympics hope for its first gold in the women's 100 meter since Gail Devers in 1996. This chance for redemption comes three years after a failed drug test dashed her dreams of competing in...

Sha'Carri Richardson will make her Olympics debut as the fastest woman on Earth

California State

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Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

Back here in the U.S, for most people, the cost of making a phone call has never been cheaper. But for many people who are incarcerated and their families, staying connected can become a huge financial burden. So how did prison phone calls get so expensive? Darian Woods and Adrian Ma are with our podcast The Indicator From Planet Money. They're going to explain.

'Planet Money': The movement to make prison phone calls free

Washington State

BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to the Swinomish Tribe for repeatedly running 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation.

Judge orders railway to pay Washington tribe nearly $400 million for trespassing with oil trains

J. Souza

An 81-year-old foreign passenger was found dead in her cabin onboard a Maltese-flagged cruise ship on Saturday afternoon, according to a statement from the Greek Coast Guard. A Greek news outlet reported that the incident occurred while the vessel was docked at the picturesque Port of Mykonos, a popular tourist destination in the Aegean Sea.

Cruise Ship Passenger Found Dead in Cabin, Coast Guard Reports

Connecticut State

Greenwich, CT

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday was officially ordered by his local inland wetlands agency to replant more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes that were chopped down in November on property behind the Democrat's Greenwich home. While one of Lamont's neighbors and a neighborhood organization were also involved...

Connecticut governor to replant more than 180 trees, thousands of bushes cut down behind his house

Colorado State

Denver, CO

David Heitz

The Finance and Governance Committee of the Denver City Council voted Tuesday to ask voters whether the U.S. citizenship requirement for police and firefighters should be dropped.

Committee OKs removing citizenship requirement for police, firefighters in Denver

Massachusetts State

Hinsdale, NH

Cases of fireworks called "Mad Dog" are among the best-sellers of explosives and fireworks at TNT Fireworks in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Fourth of July celebrations are coming up and some residents are buying fireworks to celebrate even if it’s illegal. In Massachusetts, the possession, use, and sale of fireworks...

Massachusetts residents are still buying fireworks, even though it’s illegal in the state

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

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Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, the first country to do so

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do...

Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, the first country to do so

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