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Some financial pledges to fight climate change went to strange projects

Thu, 2023-06-01 11:17 — mike kraft

A pledge to fight climate change is sending money to strange places Rich countries promised $100 billion a year to reduce the effects of global warming. Reuters found large sums went to a coal plant, a hotel and chocolate shops. Reuters

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Although a coal plant, a hotel, chocolate stores, a movie and an airport expansion don’t seem like efforts to combat global warming, nothing prevented the governments that funded them from reporting them as such to the United Nations and counting them toward their giving total.

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Climate change law suits: Supreme Court declines to hear appeals from fossil fuel companies

Tue, 2023-04-25 10:34 — mike kraft

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeals From Fossil Fuel Companies in Climate Change Lawsuits - Inside Climate News WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear five appeals from the fossil fuel industry seeking to move climate change lawsuits it faces to the federal courts. The decision opens the door for Baltimore and other cities, states and counties to pursue their claims for damages from climate-related extreme weather events, flooding and sea-level rise […] Katelyn Weisbrod Inside Climate News

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US grid interconnection backlog jumps 40% with wait times expected to grow...

Tue, 2023-04-11 11:37 — mike kraft

US grid interconnection backlog jumps 40% with wait times expected to grow as IRA spurs more renewables The good news, experts say, is there has been movement on both short- and long-term solutions to interconnection backlogs. Emma Penrod Utility Dive

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Analysis: New climate law omits funding for resilience to weather disasters

Mon, 2022-09-12 19:30 — mike kraft

Analysis | Climate law omits funding for resilience to weather disasters How much is devoted to ensuring that the nation's infrastructure is built to withstand mounting weather disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes and floods? Not much. Zero dollars, to be precise. Washington Post

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Biden signs executive order on climate change to require net-zero emissions from federal government by 2050

Thu, 2021-12-09 18:09 — mike kraft

Biden signs executive order on climate change to require net-zero emissions from federal government by 2050 President Biden issued an executive order Wednesday that would reduce the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade and reach net-zero federal emissions by 2050. YahooNews

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Climate Change: overview of related provisions of House-passed Build Back Better legislation

Mon, 2021-11-22 12:09 — mike kraft

Build Back Better and American Climate Leadership If we, once again, kick the “climate can” down the road, we should be prepared for the road to be flooded, washed away, covered in debris, and possibly surrounded by burning forests. Steve Cohen State of the Planet

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At least 85 percent of the world’s population has been affected by human-induced climate change-- new study

Tue, 2021-10-12 12:22 — mike kraft

At least 85 percent of the world’s population has been affected by human-induced climate change, new study shows Researchers used machine learning to analyze more than 100,000 studies of weather events and found that four-fifths of the world’s land area has suffered impacts linked to global warming. Washington Post

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Opinion: The lives needlessly lost to undervaccination

Mon, 2021-09-20 11:53 — mike kraft

Opinion | The Lives Lost to Undervaccination, in Charts How many lives could have been saved if states vaccinated more quickly? The New York Times

... many areas and groups of people in the United States are undervaccinated. This has led to preventable deaths throughout the country.

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Gaps in CDC and states reporting data on breakthrough Covid cases hampers response

Fri, 2021-08-27 11:43 — mike kraft

Holes in reporting of breakthrough Covid cases hamper CDC response The agency originally tried to track all infections in vaccinated people, from mild to severe. But in May it decided to focus on the most severe cases. Erin Banco POLITICO

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is using outdated and unreliable data on coronavirus breakthrough infections to help make major decisions, such as who gets booster shots, according to three officials with direct knowledge of the situation.

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