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Growth Pummels North and South Carolina

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Wed, Dec 16th 2020 @ 9:14 am EST  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Immigration is driving U.S. population growth and U.S. population growth is driving sprawl. The southern Piedmont is one place where rapid population growth is clearly evident. One Piedmont town, Lake Wylie, South Carolina, has tripled its population since 2000 and town residents are starting to say "enough."
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The United States is Not 'Empty'

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Wed, Sep 9th 2020 @ 3:09 pm EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Is the United States "empty" because there's not a billion plus people already living here? Journalist Matthew Yglesias argues that's the case. Not convincingly, but that didn't stop him from writing an entire book on the subject.
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Agriculture, development, and population growth

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Thu, Jun 11th 2020 @ 12:21 pm EDT  by  Amy Boylan
As net migration continues to grow the U.S. population, the demands for housing and food increase. A recent study shows that scientists have underestimated the amount of land and water needed for agriculture as the United States loses three acres of land every minute to development.
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Who Cares About Insects? We All Should If We Care About Nature

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Tue, Apr 7th 2020 @ 8:17 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Immigration is driving U.S. population growth, and will continue to account for almost all population growth over the next forty years. We need to think about the effects of growth when we formulate immigration policy. One of the effects is continuing sprawl, and the loss of habitat for wildlife.
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NumbersUSA Study: Population Growth and Sprawl in Oregon

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Continuing our series of studies analyzing sprawl in U.S. states, NumbersUSA has just released Population Growth and Sprawl in Oregon. It found that population growth was responsible for the overwhelming majority of sprawl in the state from 1982 to 2015. Immigration was responsible for 30% of overall population growth during that time period.
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The Greatest Threat to Wildlife in General and Endangered Species in Particular Is Not Donald Trump's New Rules

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Around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, when there were 130 million fewer Americans than at present, environmental scientists, activists and even politicians were outspoken and unequivocal on the threat posed by a growing U.S. population. Yet neither the Trump administration nor its harshest environmentalist detractors are willing to recognize or resolve the greatest threat to all wildlife in the United States: large-scale habitat loss from incessant U.S. population growth.
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Too Many People, Too Little Sand

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Wed, Aug 21st 2019 @ 10:40 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
If you were to poll average Americans as to what the most important natural resource is that sustains contemporary civilization, you’d probably get responses such as oil, soil, or water. And each of these would be good answers. For each of these substances is absolutely crucial in sustaining not just our standard of living but our very survival, as are many other renewable and non-renewable natural resources.
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We continue to tell the story how immigration policy sabotaged the Earth Day dream

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For the eighth year, NumbersUSA's top staff is working our big booth at the world's largest Earth Day exhibition at the Texas State Fairgrounds in Dallas. While hundreds of environmental groups, corporations, educational institutions and research facilities tell their stories, NumbersUSA reminds attendees about the main reason why the sustainability goals of the first Earth Day in 1970 still haven't been met -- massive population growth forced by congressional immigration policies.
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Piedmont Sprawl Study

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The southern Piedmont (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia) is one of the fastest growing regions in the United States. The result is rapidly vanishing open spaces. Population growth in the region is driving sprawl, causing 86% of the loss of open space from 1982 to 2012. Per capita land consumption is responsible for the other 14%. Local, state, and national policies are responsible for attracting new residents to the Piedmont, and immigration policy plays a large role, as 40% of population growth in the southern Piedmont is due to new immigrants and their children.

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Lawsuit Charges Environmental Impacts of High Legal, Illegal Immigration Ignored

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The Washington Examiner reports the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) and a number groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security, alleging that its policies did not take into consideration the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Julie Axelrod, IRLI’s lead counsel on the case, said, “Our lawsuit will demonstrate that legal and illegal immigration have a very significant impact on the environment, which DHS has spent the last 46 years ignoring.”

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