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According to the AP, NY Times and a boat load of other AP carriers, the country boasting the loudest about how much of their energy needs are fulfilled by renewable sources, coal may be about to win out over one of the oldest forests still standing in Germany:
BERLIN (AP) — A court in western Germany says an ancient forest near the Belgian border can be chopped down to make way for a coal strip mine.
Cologne's administrative court ruled Friday against a legal complaint brought by the environmental group BUND that wanted to halt the clearance of much of the Hambach forest.
Hambach forest has become a focus of environmental protests against the expansion of a vast mine that supplies much of the coal used in nearby power plants.
The coal, a light brown variety called lignite, is considered one of the most polluting forms of fossil fuel.
Meanwhile their reactors are being systematically shut down and dismantled. But dirty coal use shows almost no decline.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday November 26 2017, @08:20AM
The times of unbleached paper are long gone. In the mean time we've learned how to bleach without chlorine.
And the acid problem is completely unrelated to that, and also affected bleached paper. It's because of a change in paper production to a method invented in 1806. For purely economic reasons. Long before anyone associated "green" with anything but either a colour or immaturity.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.