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Joe Lieberman, Democratic Senator And Vice Presidential Candidate, Dead At 82 - Huffington Post  (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · Joe Lieberman, the former U.S. senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee whose conservative views on foreign policy and steadfast support for the Iraq War eventually led to his estrangement from the party, died Wednesday in New York City, his family said. He was 82. The cause was complications after a fall. “His beloved wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him as he passed,” his family said. “Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest.” The speed of Lieberman’s partisan shift from 2000, when he became the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket for the ... Read more ... |
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The Worst Climate Disaster You Haven’t Heard Of Just Got More Deadly - And It’s Not Over Yet - Huffington Post  (Mar 26) |
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Mar 26 · In Mongolia, where nearly a third of the population still lives as nomadic herders, a winter so cold that livestock either freeze to death or starve as snow and ice make grazing impossible is called a “dzud.” These extreme seasons used to come once a decade. With climate change destabilizing the landlocked Asian country’s weather pattern, the dzud has haunted Mongolia for six of the last 10 years. In 2018, when a dzud wiped out roughly 700,000 livestock, it was a devastating record. Last month, the death toll for this winter eclipsed 2 million, as HuffPost reported at the time. Weeks later, that figure has nearly tripled. As of this week, at least 5.2 million animals ... Read more ... |
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Biden Administration Announces $6 Billion To Slash Emissions From Worst-Polluting Industries - Huffington Post  (Mar 25) |
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Mar 25 · The Biden administration on Monday announced it will distribute up to $6 billion to curb planet-warming emissions in some of America’s most polluting industries, including chemical, metal and cement operations. The awards, which the administration called the “largest investment in industrial decarbonization in American history,” are aimed at both advancing the administration’s climate goals and boosting domestic manufacturing. Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm told reporters the investments target technologies that are scalable and will “set a new gold standard for clear clean manufacturing in the United States and around the world.” “Put simply, this is good ... Read more ... |
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Biden administration announces $6 billion to slash industrial emissions - Huffington Post  (Mar 25) |
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Mar 25 · Senior Reporter, HuffPost The Biden administration on Monday announced it will distribute up to $6 billion to curb planet-warming emissions in some of America’s most polluting industries, including chemical, metal and cement operations. The awards, which the administration called the “largest investment in industrial decarbonization in American history,” are aimed at both advancing the administration’s climate goals and boosting domestic manufacturing. Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm told reporters the investments target technologies that are scalable and will “set a new gold standard for clear clean manufacturing in the United States and around the ... Read more ... |
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This 'Real Scandal' Could Be A Major Setback On The Climate - Huffington Post  (Mar 22) |
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Mar 22 · WASHINGTON ? Four high-ranking congressional Democrats condemned a decision the private entity that sets the country’s default homebuilding guidelines made this week, which will gut requirements for new houses and offices to include the wiring for electric heaters, EV chargers and solar panels. In November, trade associations representing the natural gas industry launched 11th-hour appeals to the International Code Council, the nonprofit consortium of local governments and industry groups in charge of writing the model building codes used in almost all U.S. states. The gas groups asked the ICC to scrap new tweaks in its latest update to the codes that would make it ... Read more ... |
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Gas Industry Guts Building Codes Meant To Make Going Electric Cheaper - Huffington Post  (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · The natural gas industry pulled off an 11th-hour victory in its campaign to strip climate-friendly rules out of the latest update to the homebuilding guidelines used in most of the United States. Houses and commercial buildings constructed to this year’s standards were supposed to include the circuitry for hooking up electric appliances or car chargers, potentially adding a few thousand dollars to a new home’s asking price but saving homeowners tens of thousands in renovation costs to rewire existing walls and even more on utility bills. As the International Code Council - the private nonprofit that convenes local governments, lobbyists and industry professionals ... Read more ... |
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Al Gore's climate chief on Biden's record, nuclear, and what happens if Trump wins - Huffington Post  (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · Senior Reporter, HuffPost In 2006, shortly after the release of his groundbreaking documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore invited 50 would-be climate activists to his Tennessee barn for a training session on how to raise awareness about the threat fossil fuel emissions pose to the planetary systems and weather conditions humans can withstand. The Climate Reality Project, Gore’s advocate-training nonprofit, has spent the intermediate 18 years mustering what chief executive Phyllis Cuttino called “an army.” The organization has 100 chapters in 40 U.S. states and 11 countries. Each of the training sessions so far has been distinct, with ... Read more ... |
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Al Gore’s Climate Chief On The 'Terrible’ Reality Awaiting Us If Trump Wins - Huffington Post  (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · In 2006, shortly after the release of his groundbreaking documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore invited 50 would-be climate activists to his Tennessee barn for a training session on how to raise awareness about the threat fossil fuel emissions pose to the planetary systems and weather conditions humans can withstand. The Climate Reality Project, Gore’s advocate-training nonprofit, has spent the intermediate 18 years mustering what chief executive Phyllis Cuttino called “an army.” The organization has 100 chapters in 40 U.S. states and 11 countries. Each of the training sessions so far has been distinct, with teaching materials tailored to the ... Read more ... |
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EPA Issues Ambitious New Auto Rules To Curb Carbon Emissions - Huffington Post  (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration announced new automobile emissions standards Wednesday that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles. The new rules relax initial tailpipe limits proposed last year but eventually get close to the same strict standards set out by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rules come as sales of electric vehicles, which are needed to meet the standards, have begun to slow. The auto industry cited lower sales growth in objecting to the EPA’s preferred standards unveiled last April as part of its ambitious plan to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger ... Read more ... |
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Why The U.S. Just Invested $500 Million Into A Foreign Country’s Oil Company - Huffington Post  (Mar 15) |
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Mar 15 · The United States is pumping $500 million into Bahrain’s oil and gas fields, in what analysts call an “unusual” but clearly “geopolitical” investment that pits the Biden administration’s climate goals against its need to shore up a key ally in a region where war is increasingly straining Washington’s relations. The Export-Import Bank, the U.S. federal government’s official export credit agency, said Thursday in a press release that the financing would fund energy efficiency and solar projects in the Gulf kingdom’s existing fields, insisting the funding “is not expected to result in a meaningful increase in oil and gas production.” But the project includes drilling 400 ... Read more ... |
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New Study Reveals The 1 Simple, Free Activity That Can Improve Mental Health In Minutes - Huffington Post  (Mar 15) |
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Mar 15 · You may have noticed that after a few minutes in the woods, on the lake’s shore or at the river’s edge, you begin to feel... better. More calm, relaxed and at peace. The connection between natural spaces and human minds is hardly a new one. The tradition of meditative zen gardens, for example, has existed for centuries. Coined in the early 1980s, the term “forest bathing,” or Shinrin-yoku in Japanese, can also be translated as “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Many of us have felt the benefits of being “bathed” in the sensory experience of the woods. As Ginny Yurich, founder of the platform 1000 Hours Outside, described it to HuffPost in an email: “[Being] disconnected from ... Read more ... |
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House Democrats Urge Powerful Body Overseeing Building Codes To Keep Climate Provisions - Huffington Post  (Mar 14) |
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Mar 14 · House Democrats warned the private organization that writes the nation’s homebuilding guidelines against eliminating climate-friendly provisions, HuffPost has learned. The measures are aimed at lowering the cost of replacing gas-burning appliances and automobiles with electric alternatives. The top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter Wednesday to executives of the International Code Council, the nonprofit consortium of industry groups and local governments that updates the generic codes used throughout most of the United States every three years. According to a copy of the letter obtained by HuffPost, they said told the council they “strongly ... Read more ... |
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Biden Administration Divvies Up $120 Million For Tribes To Adapt To Climate Risks - Huffington Post  (Mar 14) |
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Mar 14 · The Biden administration on Thursday awarded more than $120 million to dozens of Native American and Alaska Native tribes to prepare for and adapt to the mounting effects of climate change, including sea level rise, worsening droughts and wildfires and food security. The investments are part of a broader administrative effort to rectify decades of “significant and systematic underfunding for tribal communities,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland told reporters on a press call. This disinvestment in Indigenous communities, along with Native Americans’ forced displacement from their historic lands, has left these groups particularly vulnerable to the dangers of a warming ... Read more ... |
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Mitch McConnell’s Sister-In-Law Died After Accidentally Reversing Tesla Into Pond: Report - Huffington Post  (Mar 12) |
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Mar 12 · Angela Chao, the CEO of shipping company Foremost Group and sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), died last month after accidentally reversing her Tesla into a pond at a Texas ranch, according to a Friday report in The Wall Street Journal. Chao, 50, was the younger sister of McConnell’s wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. Though Angela Chao’s Feb. 11 death was reported at the time, The Wall Street Journal’s story sheds new light on the fatal incident. Chao had been enjoying an evening with friends and was preparing to drive back to a residence on the ranch shortly before midnight when she accidentally reversed her Tesla ... Read more ... |
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'Weekend Update': Colin Jost Shuts Down Trump With 'Grace' Over Biden SOTU Feedback - Huffington Post  (Mar 10) |
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Mar 10 · “Weekend Update” co-host Colin Jost ripped Donald Trump’s skills as an orator after the former president claimed that President Joe Biden was having a “hard time” speaking during the State of the Union address Thursday. Jost, in this weekend’s edition of the “SNL” news segment, referred to Trump as a “current reverse mortgage applicant” before reading one of his posts from his Truth Social “play by play” on Biden’s speech. ?[He] criticized Biden’s speech saying, 'The words are not flowing smoothly out of his mouth!’ Well we can’t all speak with the same effortless grace as Donald J. Trump,” Jost said before he flipped to a clip of a recent bizarre moment from the current ... Read more ... |
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Republicans In An Incredibly Hot State Are Trying To Block Protections For Outdoor Workers - Huffington Post  (Mar 8) |
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Mar 8 · Kim Smith knows how oppressive Florida’s heat can be for workers. The telecommunications technician has spent almost 20 years climbing utility poles in the Tampa sun and crawling through unventilated attics to install cable. She can’t imagine how hot the work will be in another decade or two. So Smith was disgusted this week when her state’s Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill to block localities from implementing heat safety standards to protect workers. “It’s disturbing,” said Smith, 45, a member of the United Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. “Someone is going to die as a result of this legislation.” As climate change leads to higher temperatures and ... Read more ... |
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Some Kansas City Chiefs Fans Advised To Undergo Amputation After Cold-Weather Game - Huffington Post  (Mar 7) |
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Mar 7 · Some Kansas City Chiefs fans have been told to schedule amputations after they suffered frostbite at the Jan. 13 playoff game between the Chiefs and the visiting Miami Dolphins, a doctor treating the patients told Fox4 on Wednesday. (Watch the video below.) The victims endured temperatures that plunged below zero in the Chiefs’ 26-7 victory at home en route to their eventual Super Bowl title. Three spectators were hospitalized for frostbite in windchills measured at -27 degrees Fahrenheit, KSHB reported. The extreme cold snap in the area generated at least 11 cases of frostbite, and one victim died, according to the Kansas City Star. Dr. Megan Garcia, the Grossman ... Read more ... |
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SEC Finalizes Watered-Down Climate Disclosure Rules - Huffington Post  (Mar 6) |
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Mar 6 · The U.S. Securities and Exchange Council on Wednesday adopted new rules that will require certain public companies to disclose the vulnerability of their operations to global climate change and how much planet-warming emissions they generate. But the much-anticipated rules were watered down from the council’s original proposal in 2022. The SEC stopped short of requiring all publicly traded companies to report their direct emissions - only large and mid-sized companies will have to - and ultimately scrapped a provision that would have required certain companies to also disclose so-called Scope 3 emissions, those generated on their supply chains and by consumers using their ... Read more ... |
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1 Jaw-Dropping Stat Shows How Bad A Second Trump Presidency Would Be For The Climate - Huffington Post  (Mar 6) |
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Mar 6 · A win for Donald Trump in the November presidential election could increase the United States’ planet-heating pollution by so much that the emissions would negate the last five years of global progress on deploying clean energy - twice over. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis from Carbon Brief. The climate science journal’s new report found that the Republican candidate’s plans to reverse the Biden administration’s energy policies would add an extra 4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to the atmosphere. The total is roughly equal to the combined annual emissions of the European Union and Japan - or the combined yearly sum of the world’s 140 ... Read more ... |
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Gas Industry Loses Bid To Block Green Building Codes - Huffington Post  (Mar 5) |
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Mar 5 · The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned. The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state. In November, trade associations representing gas utilities and furnace manufacturers launched a last-ditch effort to gut the provisions, which will be released this year. The International Code Council, the nonprofit organization that works with industry groups and local governments to write the generic codes ... Read more ... |
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New $1 million ad casts gas stoves in ‘toxic' reality TV role: ‘We're all cancer!' - Huffington Post  (Mar 3) |
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Mar 3 · Senior Reporter, HuffPost “I did not come here to make friends,” the reality TV star says. “I came here to cause chest pain, nausea and vomiting.” She redefines how a dating show contestant can be tasteless ? and odorless. Her name is Carbon Monoxide. “But you can call me C. Mo,” she introduces herself in a Bravo-style title card. “As in see mo’ life-threatening health problems.” She’s just one of the noxious cast members on “Hot and Toxic,” a fictional parody invented as part of a new environmental campaign against using natural gas for cooking and heating. The setup is darkly funny. An unsuspecting homeowner moves into the house of her dreams, only to ... Read more ... |
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Trump Says Biden Is Trying To 'Overthrow The United States,' Echoing Immigration Rhetoric - Huffington Post  (Mar 2) |
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Mar 2 · GREENSBORO, North Carolina (AP) - Former President Donald Trump on Saturday further escalated his immigration rhetoric and baselessly accused President Joe Biden of waging a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America” as he campaigned ahead of Super Tuesday’s primaries. Trump has a long history of trying to turn attack lines back on his rivals in an attempt to diminish their impact. Biden has cast Trump as a threat to democracy, pointing to the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Those efforts culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as his supporters tried to halt the peaceful transition of ... Read more ... |
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Major California Blizzard Dumps Snow, Creates 'Impossible' Travel Conditions - Huffington Post  (Mar 2) |
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Mar 2 · RENO, Nev. (AP) - A powerful blizzard raged overnight into Saturday in the Sierra Nevada as the biggest storm of the season shut down a long stretch of Interstate-80 in California and gusty winds and heavy rain hit lower elevations, leaving tens of thousands of customers without power. Up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow is expected in some areas. The National Weather Service said early Saturday that widespread blowing snow was creating “extremely dangerous to impossible travel conditions.” The combination of snow and high winds was most intense in the Sierra Nevada, with more than 3 inches (7 centimeters) of snow falling per hour and wind gusts over 100 mph (161 ... Read more ... |
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For The First Time, Rich Countries Now Get Half Their Electricity From Zero-Carbon Energy - Huffington Post  (Mar 1) |
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Mar 1 · Global emissions of planet-heating gas hit a record high last year, the International Energy Agency announced Friday. But the rich economies cumulatively responsible for much of the carbon in the atmosphere saw their average emissions drop down to 1973 levels, driven largely by a transition away from fossil fuel power plants. For the first time in history, zero-carbon sources of energy generated half the total electricity in the world’s advanced economies, according to new data from the Paris-based energy watchdog. Renewables like wind and solar accounted for an “unprecedented” 34% share of power generation. Nuclear power, which a separate IEA report last month ... Read more ... |
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Texas Issues Disaster Declaration As Wildfires Explode Across The State - Huffington Post  (Feb 27) |
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Feb 27 · Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued a disaster declaration for dozens of counties across the state on Tuesday as wildfires scorched more than 250,000 acres, and prompted evacuation or shelter-in-place orders for thousands of residents. The largest blaze, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, was burning out of control in the Texas panhandle and was 0% contained as of Tuesday evening. Flames spurred by strong winds ate through more than 200,000 acres of dry grassland in less than a day about 60 miles northeast of Amarillo. Parts of Amarillo were shrouded in smoke while other towns, including the city of Fritch, Texas, were evacuated. Some areas, including the town of Canadian, were ... Read more ... |
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Extreme Winter Weather Has Put 90% Of This Country At 'High Risk' - Huffington Post  (Feb 25) |
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Feb 25 · For nomads eking out a living by herding animals on Mongolia’s vast steppes, the deadliest winters used to come only once a decade, freezing the grasslands into solid ice or coating everything with so much snow that livestock died of cold or hunger en masse. Now the frigid “dzud” winters come every other year, if not annually. It’s a tragic knock-on effect of the climate change rapidly drying and desertifying the nation throughout the other seasons. Last year was particularly brutal, killing livestock by the hundreds of thousands and stranding herding families, who make up at least a third of Mongolia’s 3.3 million people, without access to food, animal feed or medicine. Read more ... |
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White House Weighing Executive Actions On The Border - With Immigration Powers Used By Trump - Huffington Post  (Feb 21) |
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Feb 21 · WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is considering using provisions of federal immigration law repeatedly tapped by former President Donald Trump to unilaterally enact a sweeping crackdown at the southern border, according to three people familiar with the deliberations. The administration, stymied by Republican lawmakers who rejected a negotiated border bill earlier this month, has been exploring options that President Joe Biden could deploy on his own without congressional approval, multiple officials and others familiar with the talks said. But the plans are nowhere near finalized and it’s unclear how the administration would draft any such executive actions in a way that ... Read more ... |
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Oil Spill Fouls Tobago Beaches As Officials Try To Find Owner Of Mystery Vessel - Huffington Post  (Feb 15) |
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Feb 15 · An oil spill off the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has fouled local beaches and is now drifting toward Grenada and Venezuela, officials said Thursday. The spill, discovered on Feb. 7, was at first a mystery. Trinidad and Tobago’s Coast Guard saw oil in the water and traced it to a capsized barge with no crew or indication of where the vessel came from. The slick quickly covered nearby beaches along Tobago’s southwestern coastline as the ship continued to leak fuel. Authorities later said the barge was being tugged from Panama to nearby Guyana before some sort of accident took place. It’s unclear who owns the vessel or if anyone was aboard or injured when it ... Read more ... |
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Maine Lobster Gear Linked To Dead Endangered Right Whale, Upending Industry Narrative - Huffington Post  (Feb 14) |
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Feb 14 · For the first time, federal regulators have connected Maine’s signature lobster industry to the entanglement and death of a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The animal, a 3-year-old female calf, was found washed ashore in late January on Martha’s Vineyard, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with rope wrapped around and embedded in its tail - the result of what a preliminary investigation described as “chronic entanglement.” The National Marine Fisheries Service, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), on Wednesday confirmed that the rope had distinct markings used by Maine trap fishermen but stopped short of explicitly stating that the ... Read more ... |
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An Ex-Gun Industry Executive - And Democrat - Looks To Become Montana’s Next Governor - Huffington Post  (Feb 10) |
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Feb 10 · When Ryan Busse, a Democrat from Kalispell, announced his bid for Montana governor in September, Don Kaltschmidt, chair of the state Republican Party, immediately condemned him as an “anti-gun extremist and radical environmentalist.” Busse, a longtime environmental advocate and former firearms industry executive, chuckled. “Insert laughter,” he told HuffPost. “Are you fucking kidding me? I’ve sold 3 million guns. I hunt and fish with my kids every chance I get. I don’t even know how many guns I own.” Busse is seeking the Democratic nomination to take on first-term GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte in November. He sees Kaltschmidt’s attack as part of a GOP facade meant to ... Read more ... |
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Workers At The U.S.’s Largest Nuclear-Fuel Factory Plan To Unionize - Huffington Post  (Feb 8) |
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Feb 8 · Workers at the United States’ largest factory for assembling the fuel rods used in nuclear reactors are attempting to unionize. Nearly 700 employees at the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility, located 25 minutes southeast of Columbia, South Carolina, are set to vote on whether to form a union represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). The election is scheduled for Feb. 29, March 1 and March 2. The IBEW filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) late last month requesting a union election. More than half of 673 eligible employees have already signed cards pledging to support the organizing drive, HuffPost has learned. ... Read more ... |
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Scientists Propose New Category 6 For Future Of Monster Hurricanes - Huffington Post  (Feb 6) |
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Feb 6 · Two scientists proposed a shift to the system that categorizes hurricanes as climate change supercharges extreme weather events: The creation of a Category 6 designation to identify the monsters that may come. In a new paper, Michael Wehner, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and James Kossin, a distinguished science adviser at the First Street Foundation, write that the current system to measure hurricanes presents no upper bound beyond Category 5. In a world where climate change has been linked to stronger storms, the pair found that a sixth level of the Saffir-Simpson Scale could have already been applied to deadly and destructive storms that ... Read more ... |
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The Industry 'Scandal’ That Might Completely Upend How America Builds Houses - Huffington Post  (Feb 5) |
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Feb 5 · Fossil fuel companies are trying to strip a series of climate-friendly measures out of the latest round of model building codes used to regulate construction virtually everywhere in the United States. The International Code Council, the nonprofit organization responsible for writing widely adopted model building codes, broke its own rules to allow natural gas trade associations make the industry’s case for scrapping provisions for electric appliances and car chargers from the latest update to the codebook, HuffPost has learned. Long accused of inappropriately chummy ties with the industries its rules regulate, the ICC late last year abruptly changed its own written ... Read more ... |
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Why California Isn’t Built To Handle This Kind Of Storm - Huffington Post  (Feb 5) |
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Feb 5 · A rare weather event that brought catastrophic flooding and wind gusts exceeding 100 miles per hour to California has already incapacitated much of the state - including two of the richest and most developed parts of the country, which still lack the infrastructure needed to withstand such extreme weather. In the nation’s high-tech hub of Northern California, nearly 1 million households suffered blackouts Sunday evening, according to Pacific Gas & Electric. More than 456,000 remained without electricity, including nearly a quarter-million in the San Francisco Bay Area, as of 8 a.m. local time Monday. Including those outside PG&E’s coverage area, more than 500,000 people ... Read more ... |
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People Living Near The Toxic Train Disaster In Ohio Are Still Feeling The Effects - Huffington Post  (Feb 3) |
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Feb 3 · As 2023 drew to a close, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out a news release highlighting actions it had taken throughout the year that “showcase unprecedented efforts to protect human health and the environment.” On the list of accomplishments was the agency’s response to the chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, that stemmed from a fiery derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on Feb. 3. But one year after the catastrophe, many residents remain frustrated with the lack of federal response to the disaster and skeptical of the EPA’s assurances that their community is safe. Similarly, independent scientists continue to condemn the EPA for, among other things, ... Read more ... |
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This Far-Right Leader Seems Poised To Abandon Climate Denial - In Order To Push His Extreme Agenda - Huffington Post  (Jan 28) |
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Jan 28 · Geert Wilders, the anti-Islam populist who won the Dutch election in November, is best known for attacking the Muslims who comprise just over 5% of the Netherlands’ population as human “scum” whose “backward religion” amounts to a “retarded culture” based on the teachings of a “pedophile” prophet. Voters rewarded his pledges to outlaw mosques and end immigration to Europe’s sixth-largest economy by electing his party to the largest bloc in Parliament. In its 46-page election manifesto, his far-right Freedom Party promised to stop “wasting billions on useless climate hobbies” and send “all” the “climate measures” to curb planet-heating emissions in the flood-prone nation ... Read more ... |
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Biden Hits Brakes On Gas Projects Amid Surge In U.S. Exports - Huffington Post  (Jan 26) |
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Jan 26 · President Joe Biden on Friday temporarily paused approval of new liquefied natural gas export projects, pending a thorough analysis of how shipments will impact global climate change. The move, which follows a growing pressure campaign from climate activists, effectively freezes nearly a dozen LNG export projects currently in the pipeline, including the $10 billion Calcasieu Pass 2, or CP2, project on Louisiana’s coast. If built, CP2 would be one of the largest LNG export facilities on the planet. In a statement announcing the decision, Biden said that the pause “sees the climate crisis for what it is: the existential threat of our time,” and allows his administration to ... Read more ... |
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Biden Drops Nuclear Regulator Nominee After Senate Backlash - Huffington Post  (Jan 22) |
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Jan 22 · President Joe Biden is dropping his pick to fill the open seat on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after a handful of Democrats joined Senate Republicans to block the nomination last year, HuffPost has learned. Jeff Baran had held a seat on the five-person federal panel overseeing atomic energy and radiation safety since former President Barack Obama first named to the position in 2014. The Democratic commissioner easily won Senate approval when former President Donald Trump renominated him in 2018. But pro-nuclear advocates angry over what they saw as Baran’s unwillingness to overhaul the regulatory process in favor of building new types of reactor technologies ... Read more ... |
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Malia Obama Makes The Scene At Sundance For Film Premiere - Under A New Name - Huffington Post  (Jan 19) |
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Jan 19 · Just call her Malia Ann. Malia Obama appeared on the red carpet for her short film “The Heart” at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday ? but under the credited name of Malia Ann. That’s her first and middle name. “The Heart” was shown at the Telluride and Chicago festivals, where she was also credited as Malia Ann in the programs. Teen Vogue noted that she is now “known artistically” as Malia Ann. The 25-year-old Obama, the eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, told viewers in a preview video (watch it below) that her movie is an “odd little story.” “We hope you enjoy the film and it makes you feel a bit less lonely, ... Read more ... |
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Lauren Boebert’s Hot Take On The Cold Weather Goes Embarrassingly Awry - Huffington Post  (Jan 15) |
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Jan 15 · Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) received a science lesson on social media after she took a page out of the conservative winter playbook and conflated weather with climate change. Amid extreme winter weather across most of the U.S., Boebert on Sunday posted on X, formerly Twitter: “You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protestors trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to yell about how the planet is warming.” “They just don’t see it, do they?” she added. Read more ... |
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