Dear EarthTalk:

Why is Elon Musk so blasé about the world running out of water, especially after decades-long droughts and rising temperatures?

P. Dirksen, Omaha, NE

Birthdays

May 15

• Amber Gutierrez
• Anthony Voss
• Katie Rittgers
• Abigail Klukoswki
• Ashlee Koch
• Kodie Stoker
• Irene McKinnis* In Memory

May 16

• Claire Talbert
• Jacob Smelker

May 17

• Brooke Crawford Berth
• David Ellicott
• Cory Miller
• Tanya Gerwing
• Brandon Igou
• Alexa Nelson
• Tyliq Bowers

May 18

• Annette Rehm Fink
• Olivia Fry

May 19

• Taylynn Engelhardt
• Jacob Kraft

Colorado State University Crops Testing has announced the details for the 2023 Wheat Field Days. They are made possible by our farmer-cooperators, seed company and industry partners, and our colleagues from the CSU Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences, CSU Dept. of Agricultural Biology, the Agricultural Experiment Station, CSU Extension, Colorado Wheat, and the USDA-ARS. 

We have a great set of public and private wheat varieties to show off in our field trials and characteristics of these varieties will be shared at each field day.  

(Colorado Newline) Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law Thursday a bill that commits Colorado for the first time to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, along with other measures to address spiking utility rates and the state’s long-term energy future.

New Mexico's congressional delegation wants to see action from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voiced their support Thursday for reforming the federal process for approving energy projects.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed a bill Thursday that she hopes will decrease drug overdose deaths.

State lawmakers address many of Montana's most pressing mental-health needs.

Anti-abortion groups are looking for new ways to wage their battle against abortion rights.

Photo of the week from the May 12, 2023, edition of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado - Cattle in a field in eastern Colorado - Chris Sorensen