AGP Executive Report
Last update: an hour agoClimate & Policy: A new UN “strategic retreat” framing says the world has missed key warming-prevention goals, pushing governments toward coping and containment as impacts intensify. Nebraska Water & Environment: Nebraska’s Legislature candidates forum put issues like nitrates in water, tree canopy, native prairies, and cutting carbon pollution front and center, with six candidates showing up and others skipping. Corporate Climate Reporting Fight: A coalition of 16 state attorneys general, including Nebraska, warns that Big Four climate disclosure efforts could expose firms to liability under state law. Food & Farming Tech: The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa won a $2M NSF award (with UNL) to build AI tools that flag environmental threats to aquaculture, livestock, and agriculture earlier. Energy From Manure: A Broken Bow, Nebraska RNG project broke ground to turn feedlot manure into about 1.2 million MMBtu of pipeline-quality natural gas each year. Heat & Storms: Severe weather and flash-flood risk are in the forecast for parts of the Dakotas and the Midwest, with Nebraska also under heat and storm watch conditions. Local Safety: Nebraska State Patrol renewed calls for information in two long-running investigations, including a Fairbury woman missing since 2021 and a Lincoln man killed in 2014.
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