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Yale Climate Connections, May 7, 2021
Articles include: ‘Which climate change jobs will be in high demand in the future?’; Most newspaper editorials mum on Biden 50% by 2030 pledge; Revitalized U.S. urgency on climate change and national security; Empire State Realty Trust agrees to buy 300 million kilowatt hours of wind […]
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The Daily Climate, April 27, 2021
Articles include: California drought; underreporting GHGs; weather station in the Andes; 26,000 snakes; tools: graphics and climate change; deforesting Brazil; EPA and California air standards; pandemic and snow melt in SE Asia.
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The Daily Climate, April 26, 2021
Articles include: wood pellet loophole in Paris Accord; bike licensing and justice; hydrogen and the grid; California oil spillers and the law; jobs; US and China and Clean technology; electric trucks; Canada’s melting permafrost; Report: halting methane emissions.
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The Daily Climate, April 13, 2021
Articles include: Reactions to ‘Fracktured’ investigation; Native communities and rising waters; Losing ‘gods’ to climate change; American Jobs Plan; climate change, wildfires, and Elk; California, oil wells, and groundwater pollution; NFTs fueling climate change; Pacific heat wave & the Gulf of Mexico; burning pig poop; polluting SUVs; laws aimed […]
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The Daily Climate, April 12, 2021
Articles include: Flood survivors; Biden’s infrastructure plan; California expands O&G drilling; battery makers; Canadian energy jobs; nuclear power plant shutting down; Russia & the arctic; Maine laws & solar investment; Brazil; home buying and climate change; offshore wind; Navajo farmers.
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The Daily Climate, April 6, 2021
Articles include: Orphan oil wells & climate change; lightning, wildfires, and the Arctic; farmland restoration; wage gap; alternatives for coal country; carbon flooding; O&G jobs disappearing; Texas winter energy disaster; diseases in Alaska; drought in Michigan and Arizona; fossil fuel subsidies.
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Here’s What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like
Huffington Post: Here’s What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like. A new proposal from an influential policy outfit outlines how the Biden administration could put 1.5 million Americans to work.
It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a few months earlier, a massive hurricane destroyed dozens of homes […]
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Yale Climate Connections, April 9, 2021
Articles include: Wind and solar energy are job creators. Which states are taking advantage? Forecasters predict an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2021; How the nonprofit Green 2.0 is tackling the environmental movement’s diversity problem; Experts lay out their case against carbon pricing; Some insightful […]
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Fossil fuels get too many government handouts. Biden wants to cut them off.
Vox: Fossil fuels get too many government handouts. Biden wants to cut them off. The American Jobs Plan proposes taking away major tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry.
But prying away these perks from the industry has been challenging in the past. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats tried
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The Daily Climate, April 5, 2021
Articles include: Algae blooms & otters; cars versus mass transit; Study: meat & dairy lobbyists; US offshore wind targets; EV battery availability problems; fossil fuel divestment; climate jobs; Green New Deal; Report: Must electrify transportation; rewilding our cities; pandemic and EVs; sunlight blocking tests.
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