California Passes New Rule Regulating Replacement Car Tires

18 août 2026 à 20:13

The rule to require efficient replacement tires was praised by environmentalists. But manufacturers warned that the change would hurt American companies and increase tire prices.

California’s efficiency standards for replacement vehicle tires will take full effect in 2033.

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Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests

Par : Mark Oliver

18 août 2026 à 16:13

Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it plans to rescind the “roadless rule” that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years, potentially opening up almost 45m acres of national forests to road construction, drilling and logging.

Conservationists had feared the announcement was coming since last summer after Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, targeted a rule brought in by Bill Clinton’s administration, describing it as “overly restrictive” and an “absurd obstacle” to development.

US news | The Guardian

‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches

Par : Sara Sneath in Miami

18 août 2026 à 07:30

Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida’s beaches amid the climate crisis

Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer. As chief of conservation for Miami-Dade county’s parks, recreation and open spaces department, Bumpus is in charge of cleaning sargassum off 17 miles (27km) of county beaches. But some days, the odds are stacked against him and his team.

More and more sargassum, a kind of floating brown algae, has been washing up on the beaches of south Florida, west Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.

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