🌎 Discussion: Climate Change, Global Warming, Emission Standards, and Other Environmental Issues - Part 1

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Trump rescinded a half-century of environmental rules. Here’s what that could mean.

Trump wants to “unleash American energy.” What does that mean?

www.vox.com

 

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Bloomberg offers climate cash to UN after Trump exits Paris Agreement

The core of the UNFCCC's budget comes from its almost 200 member countries.

www.euronews.com

 

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Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds

Net increase of 80,000 deaths a year projected in hottest scenario, with milder winters failing to redress balance

www.theguardian.com

 

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Monday briefing: What if the climate crisis makes disaster insurance unaffordable?

In today’s newsletter: The Los Angeles wildfires highlighted the immense challenges faced by the insurance industry amid the escalating risks of the climate crisis. Are there any potential solutions for homeowners?

www.theguardian.com

 

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Trump is just getting started. What are climate activists supposed to do?

What will 'resistance' look like this time around? Organizers say they'll be peaceful, but nothing is off the table.

grist.org

 

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Trump Freezes $50 Billion in DOE Funding for Programs Including Clean Energy Innovation - EcoWatch

The Trump administration has halted spending from the United States Department of Energy (DOE)’s approximately $50 billion budget.

www.ecowatch.com

 

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Guardian investigation fuels class-action lawsuit against petro giant

Marathon Petroleum said a massive fire at its Louisiana refinery caused ‘no offsite impacts’. Reporting by the Guardian and Forensic Architecture raised doubts about this claim

www.theguardian.com

 

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Guardian investigation fuels class-action lawsuit against petro giant

Marathon Petroleum said a massive fire at its Louisiana refinery caused ‘no offsite impacts’. Reporting by the Guardian and Forensic Architecture raised doubts about this claim

www.theguardian.com

Anybody with half a brain knows that kind of fire will always leave toxic stuff behind.

 

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Weatherwatch: melting permafrost threatens landscapes and lives in Arctic regions

Towns and dams built on the assumption the surrounding ice would never melt are facing disaster

www.theguardian.com

 

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Good thing we have a President that cares about global warming and climate change currently in the White House.

 

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‘Unprecedented' number of lithium ion batteries complicates LA wildfires cleanup

What authorities described as one of the largest lithium-ion battery cleanups ever is underway in Los Angeles County neighborhoods destroyed by the Eaton and Palisades fires.

www.necn.com

 

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'Catastrophic Blow': GOP and Three Democrats Confirm Zeldin for EPA | Common Dreams

"This dangerous agenda that Zeldin will oversee will roll back vital pollution limits that protect us, abandon clean energy investments, and lock the country into reliance on dirty, expensive fossil fuels," said one campaigner.

www.commondreams.org

 

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'Catastrophic Blow': GOP and Three Democrats Confirm Zeldin for EPA | Common Dreams

"This dangerous agenda that Zeldin will oversee will roll back vital pollution limits that protect us, abandon clean energy investments, and lock the country into reliance on dirty, expensive fossil fuels," said one campaigner.

www.commondreams.org

Just as bad as the guy Trump picked the last time.

 

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Trump rescinds funding freeze but uncertainty lives on for wide array of environmental programs

A chaotic back-and-forth over President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans has farmers, activists, organizations and businesses wondering whether they will receive the funding they rely on

www.independent.co.uk

 

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How US states are leading the climate fight – despite Trump’s rollbacks

Officials are making clean-energy moves in California, New York and beyond, and Republican states will be integral too

www.theguardian.com

 

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Well that sucks.

 

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‘Everyone has an impact’: how to start reducing your environmental footprint

As fires tear through California and Trump sets back efforts to curb the rise of global temperatures, what can individuals do to make a difference?

www.theguardian.com

 

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