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Critics Shred Chris Sununu Over His 'Truly Sad' Trump 180: 'All The More Pitiful' - Huffington Post (Apr 15) |
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Apr 15 · New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who was recently a staunch critic of Donald Trump, changed his tune on the former president as he backed his 2024 campaign in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
“No other president in American history has contributed to an insurrection so please explain, given the fact that you believe he contributed to an insurrection, how you can say we should have him back in the Oval Office,” Stephanopoulos asked on ABC News’ “This Week.”
“Because for me it’s not about him as much as it is having a Republican administration ...,” said Sununu, who predicted that Trump wouldn’t be the 2024 GOP presidential nominee but didn’t ... Read more ...
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Biologists Rescue Sawfish As Dozens Of Ancient Animals Die For Unknown Reasons - Huffington Post (Apr 13) |
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Apr 13 · ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A large sawfish that showed signs of distress was rescued by wildlife officials in the Florida Keys, where more than three dozen of the ancient and endangered fish have died for unexplained reasons in recent months.
The 11-foot (3.3-meter) smalltooth sawfish was seen swimming in circles near Cudjoe Key and reported by a member of the public to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, officials said Friday. It was loaded onto a specially designed transport trailer and taken to Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, where it is being rehabilitated.
The unprecedented rescue of an animal like this is part of an “emergency response” led ... Read more ...
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Joe Biden Just Made It More Expensive To Drill On Public Lands - Huffington Post (Apr 12) |
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Apr 12 · President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday finalized a new rule to modernize the long-outdated federal oil and gas leasing program.
The Interior Department rule significantly increases how much energy companies must pay to lease and drill on federal lands, and it gives federal land managers greater authority to keep fossil fuel development away from sensitive wildlife habitats and cultural sites.
The reforms “will help safeguard the health of our public lands and nearby communities for generations to come,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement accompanying the announcement.
“These are the most significant reforms to the federal oil and gas leasing ... Read more ...
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The 10 Books That Scientists Say Can Make A Difference In The Climate Crisis - Huffington Post (Apr 11) |
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Apr 11 · The climate crisis can often feel terrifying and, like any effort to slow its progression, utterly futile. But before you resolve yourself to complete apathy, many environmental scientists have a more optimistic view of things - and, more importantly, comprehensive plans of action that anyone and everyone should take.
I reached out to a couple of environmental agencies to find out which books can not only educate readers on climate change but spur us into action, effectively taking one step towards a more hospitable future for all.
Scientists, conservationists and other environment experts from groups like The Nature Conservancy helped compile the following list of ... Read more ...
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Sunny Hostin Makes Shocking Claim About Eclipse And Co-Hosts Come To Rescue - Huffington Post (Apr 9) |
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Apr 9 · Sunny Hostin is a lawyer, novelist and a co-host of “The View” ? but a scientist she is not. (Watch the video below.)
The talk show panelist suggested Monday that the confluence of the solar eclipse, New York City-area earthquake and the arrival of cicadas was due to climate change ? or perhaps something more biblical.
Co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg stepped in as real-time fact-checkers.
The exchange occurred after co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin mentioned the end-of-the-world-style conspiracy theories emerging as Monday’s eclipse followed last week’s 4.8 earthquake in the tristate area.
Hostin recalled how one of the show’s makeup artists fled the ... Read more ...
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March Breaks Yet Another Climate Record - Huffington Post (Apr 9) |
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Apr 9 · WASHINGTON (AP) - For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat - with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said.
March 2024 averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius (57.9 degrees Fahrenheit), exceeding the previous record from 2016 by a tenth of a degree, according to Copernicus data. And it was 1.68 degrees C (3 degrees F) warmer than in the late 1800s, the base used for temperatures before the burning of fossil fuels began growing rapidly.
Since last June, the globe has broken heat records each month, with marine heat waves across large areas of ... Read more ...
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Here's The Eclipse Weather Forecast For The Northeast And Central Texas - Huffington Post (Apr 6) |
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Apr 6 · DALLAS (AP) - Some who hope to witness Monday’s total solar eclipse may see the sun obscured by clouds instead of by the moon.
There’s still some time for forecasts to change, but meteorologists predict that eclipse day storms could blanket parts of the path, which stretches from Mexico and Texas through Maine and parts of Canada.
If clouds don’t get in the way, viewers in the path wearing eclipse glasses will see the moon begin to slowly cover the sun until it is completely blocked, a period of darkness called “totality” during which temperatures drop and the sun’s corona will be visible.
What’s the forecast along the eclipse’s path?
Clouds are expected in ... Read more ...
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4 'Cli-Fi’ Books It’s More Essential Than Ever To Read Right Now - Huffington Post (Apr 5) |
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Apr 5 · In January, the European climate agency Copernicus reported that the Earth was on track to break annual global heat records, the latest undeniable symptom in the climate crisis. One month after this report, Sarah Ruiz-Grossman released her debut novel, “A Fire So Wild,” adding to the vital voices in climate fiction, a literary genre marked by notable works such as Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 “Parable of the Sower.”
As a former HuffPost reporter, this isn’t Ruiz-Grossman’s first foray into writing about the environmental predicament and, more specifically, about how climate change affects the population unequally and leads to further social injustices.
Informed by this ... Read more ...
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Biden Changes Course On A Major Part Of Climate Regulation After Backlash - Huffington Post (Apr 4) |
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Apr 4 · In the years before the United States’ aging network of electrical grids began heaving under the pressure of record-breaking storms and heat waves, demand for transformers - the connective tissue of the power system - kept pace with the construction of new housing.
Those days are over. Now extreme weather regularly destroys hundreds of transformers at a time and drives up demand for more electricity on scorching or smoky days when cooling or purifying the air indoors saves lives. Preventing that crisis from getting worse means using electricity instead of fossil fuels for cars and heating while also generating a lot more of that power from sources such as solar panels and wind ... Read more ...
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Biden changes course on a major power grid rule after backlash - Huffington Post (Apr 4) |
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Apr 4 · Senior Reporter, HuffPost
In the years before the United States’ aging network of electrical grids began heaving under the pressure of record-breaking storms and heat waves, demand for transformers - the connective tissue of the power system - kept pace with the construction of new housing.
Those days are over. Now extreme weather regularly destroys hundreds of transformers at a time and drives up demand for more electricity on scorching or smoky days when cooling or purifying the air indoors saves lives. Preventing that crisis from getting worse means using electricity instead of fossil fuels for cars and heating while also generating a lot more of that power from ... Read more ...
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The 2024 Solar Eclipse Is Coming: Here's Everything You Need To Know - Huffington Post (Apr 3) |
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Apr 3 · For a few brief minutes on Monday, a total solar eclipse will blanket sky-gazers across the contiguous U.S. in a stunning astronomical spectacle that won’t happen again for another 20 years.
An estimated 31.6 million people live in the path of this year’s totality and millions more are expected to travel there to catch a glimpse of the celestial event, prompting some governments to launch emergency orders in anticipation of crowds.
“It’s kind of mind-blowing because it happens very quickly,” Dr. Cristina A. Thomas, an associate professor in astronomy and planetary science at Northern Arizona University, told HuffPost of the stunning scene as the moon engulfs the sun. ... Read more ...
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The Financial Situation At Trump's Truth Social Is A Disaster - Huffington Post (Apr 1) |
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Apr 1 · Truth Social, the conservative social media network that former President Donald Trump launched in 2022 after being banned from other platforms, lost more than $58 million and generated a mere $4.1 million in revenue last year.
The revelations about Truth Social’s current situation came in a Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory filing from Trump’s company, Trump Media & Technology Group, on Monday. The financial situation is so dire, an auditor warned in the filing, that it raises “a substantial doubt” about whether TMTG can “continue as a going concern.”
In other words, Truth Social may have to shut down, going the way of Parler ? another conservative social ... Read more ...
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The U.S. Just Broke A Not-So-Great Record - Huffington Post (Apr 1) |
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Apr 1 · The United States sold more liquefied natural gas on the global market than any other country in 2023, surpassing yet another milestone in the nation’s transformation into a fossil fuel superpower.
Drillers across the U.S. broke records for production last year. By December, wells across the lower 48 states were generating nearly 106 billion cubic feet of gas per day.
On average each day, almost 12 billion cubic feet were superchilled to nearly 300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, shrinking the fuel to one-600th of its gaseous size, and shipped overseas to buyers in Europe and Asia, data published Monday by the federal Energy Information Administration shows.
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Chunk Of California's Highway 1 Collapses Into Ocean After Heavy Rain - Huffington Post (Apr 1) |
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Apr 1 · SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Authorities urged motorists to avoid California’s Highway 1 along the central coast after a section of the scenic route collapsed during an Easter weekend storm, forcing closures and stranding motorists near Big Sur, authorities said.
The collapse occurred amid heavy rain Saturday afternoon near Rocky Creek Bridge about 17 miles (27 kilometers) south of Monterey, sending chunks of asphalt tumbling into the ocean from the southbound side of the two-lane road.
The highway was closed in both directions in the mountainous area of California’s central coast as engineers assessed the damage, said the state Department of Transportation, or ... Read more ...
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The Gas Industry Gutted Green Building Codes. Now, Republicans Want To Go Further. - Huffington Post (Mar 28) |
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Mar 28 · A week ago, fossil fuel companies pulled off an 11th-hour win in their fight to keep climate-friendly measures out of the next national homebuilding guidelines, successfully lobbying the private entity that writes the country’s model building codes to strip out rules that would make it cheaper for homeowners to go electric.
Democrats in Congress called the gas industry’s influence over the International Code Council’s process “a real scandal.”
Now some Republicans want to go further to prevent the U.S. from cutting back on wasted electricity and heat, even as Americans struggle to pay rising energy bills and utility debt hits record highs.
The two top House ... Read more ...
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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 - Huffington Post (Mar 26) |
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Mar 26 · Senior Reporter, HuffPost
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, ... 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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