The new 10-year agreement, announced by the UI this week, will supply the Urbana campus with 25,000 MWh of energy, about 8.6 percent of the total generation from the Rail Splitter Wind Farm.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R — Wisc.) has made his intentions to reform entitlement programs clear, and this report shows several ways that could happen in the SNAP program.
While ethanol has been hailed as an environmental boon, whether the use of ethanol as a fuel has a positive effect on the environment has been contested, even beyond spills.
An ethanol spill occurs every two days on average in the Midwest, the worst of which result in contamination of water supplies, major fish kills, loss of life and millions of dollars of damage. The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting found that as production and transportation of ethanol has
“We’re actually at the warmest part for the historical record for Illinois,” said State Climatologist Jim Angel, speaking to a crowd of about 60 at the Champaign Public Library on Tuesday. “This is a different climate for what our parents, grandparents or great grandparents would’ve experienced in I
When he is sworn in, Trump will be the only world leader to deny the existence of climate change, and, with a Republican-controlled Congress, he will have the ability to undo many of the steps the United States has taken to reduce its carbon emissions.
In President Barack Obama’s last full week before officially being a lame duck, his administration released the White House’s Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, a guide to areas where the federal government has opportunities to address climate change.
The investigation dubbed the top 100 emitters as "America's superpolluters" and showed that these facilities, largely coal plants, have a negative impact on human health and climate change.
Wheat, corn, rice and sorghum are among a number of crops that face uncertain futures because of increasing temperatures, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Arizona.
There was very little mention of climate change by either presidential candidate during their first debate Monday night, though that didn't stop the issue from generating headlines.
From extended drought and frequent flooding to foreign political tensions exacerbated by lack of food and water, the United States has started to treat climate change as a national security issue, after President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum on Wednesday.
