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The Fed’s Interest Rate Cut Could Actually Be A Good Thing For Climate Change - Huffington Post (Sep 18) |
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Sep 18 · The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to start cutting interest rates could bolster green energy investments, which took a hit as the U.S. central bank drastically increased the cost of borrowing money over the past two years in a scramble to tamp down post-pandemic inflation.
At its 2 p.m. meeting, the Fed slashed interest rates by 50 basis points ? one-half a percentage point ? delivering an even larger cut than the quarter of a percentage point Wall Street forecasters initially expected.
But analysts said the market needs rates to come down further to reverse the project delays and cancellations slowing the global transition away from fossil fuels, as well as ... | By October, the International Energy Agency warned that higher rates were spiking the cost of building all kinds of clean energy projects. Before the end of that month, the world’s largest offshore turbine developer, the Danish giant Ørsted, canceled its high-profile wind farm off the coast of New Jers Read more ...
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EU Issues 'Climate Breakdown' Warning Amid Record Flooding And Deadly Wildfires - Huffington Post (Sep 18) |
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Sep 18 · BRUSSELS (AP) - Devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken, the European Union’s head office said Wednesday.
“Make no mistake. This tragedy is not an anomaly. This is fast becoming the norm for our shared future,” said EU Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarcic.
The worst flooding in years moved Tuesday across a broad swath of Central Europe, taking lives and destroying homes. At the other end of the 27-nation EU, raging fires through northern Portugal have killed at least six people.
“Europe is the fastest warming ... Read more ...
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'Time To Put Gramps To Bed': Trump's Bizarre 'Seafront' Claim Leads To Blunt Fact-Check - Huffington Post (Sep 18) |
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Sep 18 · Critics are taking Donald Trump to school after the former president made a bizarre claim about the impact of rising sea levels.
“You’ll have more seafront property, right, if that happens,” Trump told an audience in Michigan on Tuesday.
Michigan would not have more “seafront property” as it’s not on the sea, nor is it near the sea. In fact, the entire state is hundreds of feet above sea level.
However, climate change could lead to an increased risk of flooding, coastal erosion and other problems in the state, which borders four of the Great Lakes.
Trump may have been speaking more generally rather than specifically about Michigan, but the claim is still ... Read more ...
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These Dolphins Could Be About To Face A Mass Mortality Event - Huffington Post (Sep 14) |
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Sep 14 · TEFÉ, Brazil - Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of wildfires raging throughout the region, with a sense of dread and déjà vu.
Brazil is in the grip of severe drought for the second time in as many years - this one already topping 2023 as the worst, most widespread drought in Brazil’s recorded history. Major rivers throughout the Amazon Basin have plummeted to record low levels, and water temperatures are approaching those that triggered mass die-offs of two species of endangered river dolphins this time last summer.
A year ago, drought ... Read more ...
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Debate Disaster: Trump’s Seething, Unhinged, Incoherent Onstage Meltdown - Huffington Post (Sep 10) |
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Sep 10 · In their first and maybe last face-to-face encounter, Vice President Kamala Harris successfully got under Donald Trump’s skin early in their debate Tuesday night, putting him into angry rally speech mode where he spent the rest of the encounter shouting his usual lies and insults.
He claimed his top officials, from chief of staff John Kelly to defense secretary Mark Esper to joint chiefs of staff chair Mark Milley were all terrible people. “So when somebody does a bad job, and you take a guy like Esper, he was no good, I fired him.”
He claimed no one ever left his campaign rallies early: “People don’t leave my rallies, we have the biggest rallies, the most incredible ... Read more ...
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RFK Jr. Made His Mark As An Environmental Lawyer. Now He’s All In On MAGA. - Huffington Post (Sep 10) |
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Sep 10 · As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about the spiritual connection he feels toward the natural world and humankind’s duty to protect it, Tucker Carlson was left visibly starstruck.
“That is where we sense the divine. God talks to us through the fishes, the birds, the leaves. They’re all words from our creator,” Kennedy told Carlson in an Aug. 26 interview. “That is why we preserve nature.”
“Yes!” Carlson agreed, emphatically.
“It’s not because of the quantity of carbon,” Kennedy added, condemning the environmental movement’s focus on planet-warming carbon emissions.
“I feel what you said so deeply I can hardly even express it,” Carlson marveled.
Kennedy, who ... Read more ...
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'Climate Crisis Is Tightening Its Grip On Us': 2024 Declared Hottest Summer Ever - Huffington Post (Sep 6) |
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Sep 6 · Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported Friday.
And if this sounds familiar, that’s because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as human-caused climate change, with a temporary boost from an El Nino, keeps dialing up temperatures and extreme weather, scientists said.
The northern meteorological summer - June, July and August - averaged 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Copernicus.
That’s 0.03 degrees Celsius (0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the old record in 2023. ... Read more ...
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Biden To Dish Out $7.3 Billion For Clean Rural Power - Huffington Post (Sep 5) |
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Sep 5 · President Joe Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Thursday to announce $7.3 billion in federal clean energy spending in rural communities across the country.
The Biden administration is calling it the “largest investment in rural electrification” since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s.
The funds, which will be divvied out to 16 electric cooperatives serving millions of customers across 23 states, will go toward building and purchasing more than 10 gigawatts of wind, solar, nuclear and hydropower.
In a call with reporters on Wednesday, a senior administration official said the “impact of this investment cannot be overstated,” noting that the ... Read more ...
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Trump Makes Numerous False And Nonsensical Claims In Meandering Speech On 'Energy’ - Huffington Post (Aug 29) |
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Aug 29 · Donald Trump claimed Thursday there is no money available for home mortgages, that he was indicted nine times and that there are 19 different ways of pronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris’ first name.
“The cost of the typical monthly mortgage has really tripled, and you can’t get the money,” the coup-attempting criminal former president said in a speech ostensibly about energy at a steel plant in Michigan. “So, you know, you’ll go from 2% to 10% but you can’t get the money at 10%. I guess they want more than that, but you just can’t get the money.”
In fact, banks and credit unions have plenty of money to lend for home purchases. Trump was indicted not nine times, but ... Read more ...
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NASA Will Keep Stranded Astronauts In Space 6 More Months - Huffington Post (Aug 24) |
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Aug 24 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they’ll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last more than eight months.
The seasoned pilots have been stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June. A cascade of vexing thruster failures and helium leaks in the new capsule marred their trip to the space station, and they ended up in a holding pattern as engineers conducted tests and debated what to do about the trip back.
After almost three months, the decision finally ... Read more ...
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Harris Adviser's 'Marshall Plan' Offers Glimpse Into How She Might Govern - Huffington Post (Aug 22) |
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Aug 22 · A top economic adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the White House has called for the United States to establish a new federal program to loan foreign countries billions of dollars so they can buy American-made green energy technologies.
In an essay published Tuesday at Foreign Affairs, economist Brian Deese ? who led President Joe Biden’s National Economic Council until last year ? called for a “Clean Energy Marshall Plan,” modeled and named after the U.S. government program that financed Europe’s postwar reconstruction and opened new markets for the booming American manufacturing sector.
“As after World War II, the United States can be generous as ... Read more ...
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Trump, For Some Reason, Thinks Rising Sea Levels Will Create More Oceanfront Land - Huffington Post (Aug 20) |
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Aug 20 · Donald Trump, who famously called climate change a “Chinese hoax,” has now embraced a supposed benefit of rising oceans that defies both topography and common sense: that higher sea levels will somehow create more oceanfront property.
“Which gives you a little bit more waterfront property if you’re lucky enough to own it,” he said about sea level rise at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, back in June.
“You’ll have more oceanfront property, right?” he said during his online conversation with billionaire Elon Musk on Aug. 12 when the topic came up.
And at his rally on Saturday in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Trump again dismissed climate change and its associated sea ... Read more ...
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Hurricane Ernesto Weakens Into Tropical Storm, Moves Over Open Waters - Huffington Post (Aug 17) |
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Aug 17 · MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hurricane Ernesto weakened into a tropical storm late Saturday as it moved away from Bermuda over open waters of the Atlantic after crossing over the tiny British territory early in the day with heavy rains and strong winds.
Ernesto forced residents to stay indoors, and more than 23,000 people lost power, officials said. By late Saturday, the storm’s maximum sustained winds had decreased to 70 mph (110 kph). It was centered about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of Bermuda and moving north-northeast at 8 mph (13 kph).
The National Hurricane Center had warned of strong winds, a dangerous storm surge and significant coastal flooding for ... Read more ...
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Half Of Puerto Rico Just Lost Power Amid Hurricane Ernesto - Huffington Post (Aug 14) |
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Aug 14 · Half of Puerto Rico lost electricity Wednesday as the Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane off the northern coast of the United States’ most populous overseas territory.
Nearly 84% of San Juan still had electricity around 4 p.m. as heavy rainfall lashed the island.
But in Carolina, the municipality bordering the sprawling capital city to the east, almost 80% of households lost power, according to data from the utility LUMA Energy.
In Mayaguez, Ernesto’s winds of up to 75 miles per hour proved powerful enough to plunge 76% of the west coast hub into darkness, with the percentage ticking upward throughout Wednesday afternoon. The blackouts on the ... Read more ...
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Project 2025 Would End Up Costing Americans Billions Of Dollars Per Year - Huffington Post (Aug 14) |
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Aug 14 · Project 2025 ? the plan that Republican operatives have drafted as a policy blueprint for a second Trump administration ? would raise Americans’ household energy spending by billions of dollars per year, all while increasing planet-heating emissions by billions of tons and costing the U.S. economy millions of jobs, a new analysis has found.
Gutting federal policies meant to encourage a shift toward greener electricity and electric cars would increase U.S. household spending on fuel and utilities by about $240 a year by 2030, jacking up nationwide costs by a combined $32 billion per year compared to the current trajectory.
By contrast, if the U.S. beefs up its existing ... Read more ...
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Katy Perry Under Environmental Investigation In Spain Over 'Lifetimes' Music Video - Huffington Post (Aug 14) |
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Aug 14 · Katy Perry has seemingly added to her mesmerizing year of public missteps.
The pop star exited “American Idol” this year and announced her first album since 2020. However, her first two singles with producer Dr. Luke - who was engaged in a yearslong legal battle with singer Kesha after she accused him of sexual abuse - flopped on the charts and her “Women’s World” music video was widely mocked. Now she’s under investigation for potential environmental damage.
The government of the Balearic Islands in Spain said Perry and her production company in a statement Tuesday did not have proper authorization to film the video for “Lifetimes,” the second single off of her upcoming ... Read more ...
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JD Vance Believes Kamala Harris 'Is Whatever She Says She Is' About Her Racial Identity - Huffington Post (Aug 11) |
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Aug 11 · Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told CNN on Sunday that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris “is whatever she says she is” in regard to her racial identity, while also agreeing with his running mate, Donald Trump, that she is a “chameleon.”
“She pretends to be one thing in front of one audience, she pretends to be something different in front of another audience,” Vance said to “State of the Union” co-anchor Dana Bash. “Look, Dana, she’s not running a political campaign, she’s running a movie.”
Vance’s remarks come after Trump said last month that Harris “happened to turn Black” during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists ... Read more ...
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Biden’s $1.5 Billion Plan Is Facing Major Drama - Huffington Post (Aug 9) |
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Aug 9 · The United States’ effort to reverse the permanent shutdown of a nuclear station for the first time hit a potential snag this week when an ex-employee at the facility went public with safety concerns about reopening the 53-year-old power plant.
Now the company that owns the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on Michigan’s southwest coast is hitting back at what it called a series of “assumptions” and “inaccurate statements” from Alan Blind, a former engineering director.
Blind’s seven-year tenure overlapped with “a period when the plant performed poorly and required significant improvements” and ended nearly a decade before its closure two years ago, according to ... Read more ...
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Tim Walz As VP Gives Kamala Harris A Big Boost On A Key Issue - Huffington Post (Aug 6) |
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Aug 6 · Vice President Kamala Harris boosted the Democratic presidential ticket’s climate credentials when she picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate, advocates said Tuesday, pointing to a record of expanding public transit, subsidizing electric bicycles and enacting one of the industrial Midwest’s strongest laws to phase down fossil fuel emissions.
The popular second-term governor, whose folksy accent and plain-spoken defenses of social democracy shone on national television in recent weeks, last year set the North Star State on a path to 100% carbon-free power by 2040, despite his party maintaining a narrow, single-vote majority in the state legislature.
While ... Read more ...
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Simone Biles And Suni Lee Make Unusual Complaint About Balance Beam Final - Huffington Post (Aug 5) |
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Aug 5 · Bercy Arena was so quiet you could hear a gymnast drop on Monday during the balance beam finals at the Paris Olympics.
Four gymnasts, including Americans Simone Biles and Suni Lee, fell off the beam ? and the lack of music and a hushed crowd may have played a part, The Associated Press reported.
“It was really weird and awkward,” Biles said, according to AP. “We’ve asked several times if we can have some music or some background noise. I’m not really sure what happened there, but, yeah, not our favorite. None of us liked it.”
“I think it was the crowd but also just knowing that we’re so close to being done and just adding that extra stress of wanting to end it off ... Read more ...
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Anthony Scaramucci Says This Debate Move Would Spell 'Disaster' For Trump - Huffington Post (Aug 4) |
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Aug 4 · Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci predicted that Donald Trump will end up debating Vice President Kamala Harris and issued a warning for the former president if he did otherwise.
“It would be a disaster for him if he doesn’t debate the vice president,” Scaramucci told CNN host Jessica Dean on Saturday.
The Republican nominee announced late Friday that he wouldn’t commit to an ABC News-moderated debate on Sept. 10 that he set with Joe Biden prior to the president dropping his reelection bid last month.
Trump - who previously declared that he’d debate Biden “anytime, anywhere, anyplace” and has pushed for the next debate to take place on ... Read more ...
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Suni Lee's Stunning Floor Routine Leaves Olympic Stadium Absolutely Roaring - Huffington Post (Aug 1) |
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Aug 1 · Suni Lee won bronze in the individual all-around gymnastics final after a dazzling floor routine finale that electrified viewers around the world.
Nerves were high as Lee, the defending champion in the event, took to the floor for her last competition of the night. She needed to deliver an outstanding performance and receive a score of at least 13.535 to pull past Italy’s Alice D’Amato and secure her spot on the podium.
“This needs to be the routine of her life here,” commentator Laurie Hernandez said as the music began Thursday.
And deliver she did, with a score of 13.666, guaranteeing herself bronze ahead of the penultimate performance from Brazil’s Rebeca ... Read more ...
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Kamala Harris Shows Off New Energy For Democrats In Atlanta Rally - Huffington Post (Jul 30) |
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Jul 30 · ATLANTA ? Vice president and newly minted Democratic presumptive nominee Kamala Harris offered loud and boisterous evidence Tuesday night that it’s a brand-new race against the GOP nominee, coup-attempter and convicted criminal Donald Trump.
“The path to the White House runs right through this state,” said Harris to a crowd of some 10,000 packed into the Georgia State Convocation Center. “The momentum in this race is shifting, and there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it.”
Harris repeated lines that have already become a favorite for her audience, contrasting her record of prosecuting sex abusers, suing for-profit college operators, and going after giant banks for ... Read more ...
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Firefighters Get Some Help From Cooler Temps After California's Largest Wildfire Explodes - Huffington Post (Jul 27) |
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Jul 27 · FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather Saturday hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles. The blaze was one of several tearing through the western United States and Canada, fueled by wind and heat.
Cooler temperatures and an increase in humidity could help slow the Park Fire, the largest this year in California. Its intensity and dramatic spread led fire officials to make unwelcome comparisons to the monstrous Camp Fire, which burned out of control in nearby Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people and torching 11,000 homes.
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Joe Biden Urges Nation To Defend Democracy As He Passes Torch: 'History Is In Your Hands’ - Huffington Post (Jul 24) |
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Jul 24 · President Joe Biden issued an impassioned call for Americans to protect democracy and rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris in a primetime address Wednesday following his decision to end his bid for reelection.
Biden, speaking from the Oval Office, touted his administration’s accomplishments after he entered the White House following a “winter of peril” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He spoke of his efforts to pass landmark climate legislation and gun reform and to lower prescription drug prices. And while he said that work would continue for the remaining six months of his presidency, he felt the threat of Trump’s resurgence warranted placing personal ambition ... Read more ...
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Trump Is Once Again Back On His Bird Bulls**t - Huffington Post (Jul 24) |
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Jul 24 · In an interview with Fox News this week, former President Donald Trump, a climate change denier and unabashed ally of planet-warming fossil fuels, furthered his already-long record of exaggerating the wind industry’s impact on birds.
But this time, he leaned into his purported concern that wind companies are killing eagles without punishment.
“If you shoot a bald eagle, or an eagle of any kind, they put you in jail for two years,” he told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “Go under a windmill, see how many eagles are under there. Nobody goes to jail.” Read more ...
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MAGA Rages That Kamala Harris Is A Threat To Plastic Straws - Huffington Post (Jul 22) |
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Jul 22 · As it became clear on Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris is the front-runner to replace President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, pro-Donald Trump conservatives went on TV to fiercely condemn her position on sipping devices.
“I mean, heck, she wants to get rid of plastic straws, for goodness sake,” Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump’s campaign, told NBC. “Whereas Joe Biden was renting some of the territory on the more extreme left, Kamala Harris owns it.”
In a lengthy monologue on Sunday, Fox News host Sean Hannity said Harris would “be the single most radical major party candidate to run for election.” He went on ... Read more ...
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At Least 11 Dead, Dozens Missing After Highway Bridge In China Crumbles In Flood - Huffington Post (Jul 20) |
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Jul 20 · TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Chinese authorities say at least 11 people have died and 30 are missing in the partial collapse of a highway bridge in the northwest of the country following heavy storms and flooding. A similar number are missing in the southwest after dozens of houses were destroyed by storms.
The official Xinhua News Agency said five vehicles that fell off the bridge have been recovered after the structure in Shaanxi province crumbled at around 8:40 p.m. Friday. A photo released by Xinhua showed a section of the bridge snapped and folded down at almost a 90-degree angle into the rushing brown water below.
It said rescue operations were still underway Saturday in ... Read more ...
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Rare Video Shows Isolated Indigenous Tribe Emerging From Amazon Amid Nearby Logging - Huffington Post (Jul 18) |
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Jul 18 · Rare photos and video published this week show members of an isolated Indigenous South American tribe emerging from the Amazonian rainforest in Peru near where logging companies have been demolishing land under government-backed concessions.
More than 50 members of the Mashco Piro tribe were seen on June 26 near the Yine village of Monte Salvado, close to the borders of Brazil and Bolivia in Madre de Dios, a representative with Survival International, which published the footage Tuesday, told HuffPost.
“Several logging companies hold timber concessions inside the territory that belongs to the Mashco Piro people,” the Indigenous rights organization said in a release. “The ... Read more ...
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3 Hikers Found Dead, Including Father And Daughter, In Utah Parks Amid High Heat - Huffington Post (Jul 16) |
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Jul 16 · Three people died and two others had to be rescued in state and national parks in Utah over the weekend due to suspected heat-related incidents.
A father, 52, and daughter, 23, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, were found dead Friday evening in Canyonlands National Park in southeast Utah after sending 911 texts for help, the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office said in a release on Monday.
The pair said they had gotten lost and run out of water while hiking the 8-mile Syncline Loop Trail, which the National Parks Service describes as the most challenging in the area and the site of most park rescues.
Their bodies had to be extracted from the area the next morning via ... Read more ...
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Inflation Might Be Easing - But Electric Bills Are Surging - Huffington Post (Jul 11) |
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Jul 11 · Electricity prices surged by nearly twice as much as overall inflation across the United States, new federal data show, putting life-saving air conditioning out of reach for a growing number of Americans struggling to pay utility bills.
The average cost of electricity bills last month rose by 4.4% compared to June of last year, surpassing overall economy-wide inflation of 3%, according to the latest consumer price index data the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Thursday.
While prices fell compared to May, only the cost of housing and transportation services saw a bigger yearly jump than electricity. The price of natural gas piped into homes for heating and cooking ... Read more ...
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A GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Has Deep Ties To Scandal-Plagued Company - Huffington Post (Jul 10) |
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Jul 10 · Kelly Ayotte, once a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, has portrayed herself as a champion to clean energy. But as she mounts a bid for governor of the Granite State, her past role on the board of a troubled company may undermine that message.
Ayotte joined Bloom Energy Corp.’s board of directors in November 2017, about a year after narrowly losing her 2016 reelection bid to Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan. At the time, the California-based fuel cell manufacturer was in the midst of mounting financial and environmental scandals.
Bloom saw in Ayotte someone with a “track record of working in a bipartisan manner to promote energy solutions that are good for the economy, the ... Read more ...
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Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, Prolific Climate Denier, Dies At 89 - Huffington Post (Jul 9) |
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Jul 9 · Longtime former Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, one of the most vehement climate change deniers to ever walk the halls of Congress, has died at age 89, the Tulsa World reported Tuesday.
Inhofe’s death comes one year after the staunch Republican retired following nearly six decades in elected office, including nearly three decades in the U.S. Senate.
Inhofe died early Tuesday after suffering from a sudden illness over the July 4 holiday, KOCO-TV reported.
Few if any Republicans did more to sow public doubt about or stymie action to confront the growing deadly impacts of fossil-fuel-driven planetary warming.
As HuffPost reported when he retired from ... Read more ...
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Beryl Unleashes High Winds And Heavy Rains Across Texas - Huffington Post (Jul 8) |
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Jul 8 · MATAGORDA, Texas (AP) - Tropical Storm Beryl unleashed heavy rains and powerful winds along the Texas coast on Monday, knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and flooding streets with fast-rising waters as first responders raced to rescue stranded residents.
Beryl had already cut a deadly path through parts of Mexico and the Caribbean before making a turn, sweeping ashore as a Category 1 hurricane in Texas early Monday, then later weakening to a tropical storm. At least two people were killed. The National Hurricane Center said damaging winds and flash flooding will continue as Beryl continues pushing inland.
More than 2 million homes and ... Read more ...
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Motorcyclist Dies After Inferno-Like Temperatures Soar To 128 In Death Valley - Huffington Post (Jul 7) |
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Jul 7 · LOS ANGELES (AP) - A visitor to Death Valley National Park died Sunday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized as the temperature reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53.3 C) in eastern California, officials said.
The two visitors were part of a group of six motorcyclists riding through the Badwater Basin area amid scorching weather, the park said in a statement.
The person who died was not identified. The other motorcyclist was transported to a hospital in Las Vegas for “severe heat illness,” the statement said.
The other four members of the party were treated at the scene.
“High heat like this can pose real threats to your health,” said park ... Read more ...
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Biden Announces New Rule To Protect Workers From Extreme Heat - Huffington Post (Jul 2) |
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Jul 2 · The Biden administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Tuesday to protect American workers from extreme heat - an already deadly threat that is becoming worse as climate change drives up temperatures around the globe.
The long-anticipated regulation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration would, if finalized, establish the nation’s first-ever federal safety standard for excessive heat in both indoor and outdoor workplaces. It is expected to cover some 36 million workers - agricultural laborers, roofers and warehouse workers, to name a few - and dramatically curb heat-related injuries and deaths, the administration said.
The move comes amid dangerous heat ... Read more ...
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Trump Did Say 1 True Thing At The Presidential Debate - Huffington Post (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · Former President Donald Trump lied and twisted facts repeatedly throughout the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle.
But more than an hour into his head-to-head against President Joe Biden, Trump spoke one simple truth about his first term in the White House.
“We had H2O,” he said.
The declaration came in response to a question about whether he’d take any action to combat the climate crisis if reelected in November.
“I want absolutely immaculate clean water and I want absolutely immaculate clean air. And we had it. We had H2O,” he said. “We had the best numbers ever and we were using all forms of energy, all forms, everything.”
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Biden Campaign Has Just 3 Words After Trump Seems To Leak Debate Talking Points - Huffington Post (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · A member of Joe Biden’s campaign team had a deadpan response after Donald Trump appeared to leak some of his debate talking points on social media.
On Thursday, just hours before Trump was scheduled to debate Biden on CNN, the former president made a post on his Truth Social platform that appeared to show some of what he expects the moderators to ask him about, and his planned responses.
The post featured a note about climate change that was attributed to Andrew Wheeler, Trump’s former EPA administrator and a former coal lobbyist. In the note, Wheeler seemed to advise the former president to say carbon dioxide emissions dropped under his administration, to blame Biden ... Read more ...
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Supreme Court Puts On Hold EPA's Plan To Limit Downwind Pollution From Power Plants - Huffington Post (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is putting the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution-fighting “good neighbor” plan on hold while legal challenges continue, the conservative-led court’s latest blow to federal regulations.
The justices in a 5-4 vote on Thursday rejected arguments by the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled states that the plan was cutting air pollution and saving lives in 11 states where it was being enforced and that the high court’s intervention was unwarranted.
The rule is intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution. It will remain ... Read more ...
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The Biden-Trump Fight That No One Is Talking About - Huffington Post (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · President Joe Biden sketched out his vision for the future of America’s auto industry during a visit to Detroit in late 2021. And he couldn’t have picked a more appropriate spot to do it.
He spoke on the assembly floor of “Factory Zero,” a plant that General Motors had just retooled in order to produce electric vehicles (EVs) and their batteries. Factory Zero sits on the site of an old Chrysler plant that during World War II supplied the “Arsenal of Democracy.” Now, Biden said, he wanted to enlist the auto industry in a different kind of war ? a war against climate change ? while providing reliable middle-class jobs and restoring some of the industry’s lost global ... Read more ...
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