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

[MagnarTheGreat]

Rapidan Dam in southern Minnesota experiences partial failure; no plans for mass evacuation

Flooding on the Blue Earth River caused an abutment of the Rapidan Dam to partially fail on Monday morning, and it remains in "imminent failure condition."

www.cbsnews.com

 

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Rapidan Dam in southern Minnesota experiences partial failure; no plans for mass evacuation

Flooding on the Blue Earth River caused an abutment of the Rapidan Dam to partially fail on Monday morning, and it remains in "imminent failure condition."

www.cbsnews.com

I'd be evacuating in a hurry.....

 

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Joe Biden’s Climate Law Has Created More Than 300,000 Clean Energy Jobs

Donald Trump wants to gut the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides more than $369 billion in clean energy incentives.

www.huffpost.com

 

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Joe Biden’s Climate Law Has Created More Than 300,000 Clean Energy Jobs

Donald Trump wants to gut the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides more than $369 billion in clean energy incentives.

www.huffpost.com

Because Trump just loves that Big Oil money.

 

[blueharvest]

The U.S. is nowhere near ready for climate change » Yale Climate Connections

Despite recent investments in adaptation, the U.S. remains woefully unprepared for the coming extreme storms and floods.

yaleclimateconnections.org

 

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Nobody is ready for what climate change is going to unleash on us.

 

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Lawyers could sue big oil for homicide after heatwave in Arizona, memo says

Charges are reasonable after July 2023 extreme weather event, prosecutors write in new memorandum

www.theguardian.com

 

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Satellite megaconstellations threaten ozone layer recovery, study confirms

Within the next 30 years, concentrations of ozone-damaging aluminum oxides in the atmosphere could increase by 650%.

www.space.com

 

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How Tory neglect flooded Britain’s rivers with sewage

On a journey along the Thames – where fury at pollution has spawned a wave of local activism – it is clear that the decline of rivers is among this government’s worst legacies

www.theguardian.com

 

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Supreme Court blocks EPA's interstate air pollution regulation

The Environmental Protection Agency’s “good neighbor” rule was aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses state lines and contributes to smog.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Supreme Court blocks EPA's interstate air pollution regulation

The Environmental Protection Agency’s “good neighbor” rule was aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses state lines and contributes to smog.

www.nbcnews.com

Who needs clean air anyhow?

 

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Pete Buttigieg fact-checks a GOP congressman to his face at House hearing - LGBTQ Nation

"But I imagine most people are aware of that," Buttigieg said before the Republican showed that he was not, in fact, aware of that.

www.lgbtqnation.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Beryl becomes a hurricane, the season's first

Beryl has become a hurricane, which formed over the Atlantic Ocean, set to head over the Caribbean islands over the weekend and could strengthen even more by Sunday into Monday.

www.scrippsnews.com

 

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This Is Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Try to Do the EPA’s Job

Conservative justices this week confused nitrous oxide with nitrogen oxides and then insisted that they, not the EPA, were the final word on environmental regulations.

newrepublic.com

 

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America Underwater: How rising sea levels will transform the US

Rising sea levels, largely caused by climate change, could disrupt the lives of millions of Americans in the coming decades.

www.newsweek.com

 

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Scientists tinker with evolution to save Hawaii coral reefs

COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — Scientists at a research center on Hawaii's Coconut Island have embarked on an experiment to grow "super coral" that they hope can withstand the hotter and more acidic oceans that are expected with global warming.

apnews.com

 

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Norovirus Outbreak Strikes Village on Shores of Italy’s Famed Lake Garda | Food Poisoning News

Torri del Benaco, a picturesque village on the shores of Lake Garda in Italy, is currently grappling with a widespread Norovirus outbreak. In recent days,

www.foodpoisoningnews.com

 

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The US announces a big offshore wind sale in the Central Atlantic

The US DOI today announced an offshore wind Final Sale Notice and auction for 275,000+ acres off the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia coasts.

electrek.co

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ford CEO Wants Americans to 'Get Back in Love' With the Small Cars Ford Gave Up On

Ford quit sedans in 2019, and the F-150 prints money. Still, Jim Farley says buyers need to get over their love for "monster vehicles."

www.thedrive.com

 

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Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

www.theguardian.com

 

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‘Keir Starmer take note’: UK’s green transition must start now, say experts

Labour’s victory, alongside strong Green performance, gives next PM mandate to be bold on net zero, say campaigners

www.theguardian.com

 

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New fungal infection discovered in China

Scientists uncovered a species of fungi that had never before been seen in humans. They say warmer temperatures could drive its evolution, for the worse.

www.livescience.com