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September 29, 2020

Trash Collection Tests Electric

NYC test drives electric trash collection trucks, but no date in sight for a Sanitation fleet conversion

Miami: Building Up Its Social Divide As Sea Level Rises

Miami is Ground Zero for a city threatened by sea level rise, but keeps on building + creating gaping social schisms

NJ's New Environmental Justice Law

New Jersey, the nation's most densely populated state, enacts an environmental justice law that will require major polluters like fossil fuel power plants, refineries, medical waste incinerators, waste, recycling + scrap metal facilities, sewage + sludge facilities + landfills to analyze public health impacts when seeking operating permits

Rooftop Solar v Utility Scale Solar

Follow this thought experiment Is rooftop or utility-scale solar power the better choice?

From Zoonosis To Your House

What's the connection between the spread of diseases like COVID-19 that pass from wild animals to humans (zoonosis) + the climate crisis?

China: Charting A Path To Carbon Neutrality

September 28, 2020

More Bikes On Bridges, More Bikeways Needed

Germany: Protestors Occupy Coal

German climate activists protest against expanded coal mining by occupying a coal-burning power plant

Climate Science: When Stability Is Bad News

Stabilizing ocean temperatures reported in new science research, is bad news when it comes to hurricanes marine life + the ability of oceans to absorb more CO2

Where The WIld Things Are

Oysters + bees + beavers oh my! are returning to NYC. How great is that!

SEC: Time To Flex Its Climate Muscles

The Securities + Exchange Commission must exercise its power to require that companies disclose standardized information on their climate risks to secure a firmer financial future for all

September 25, 2020

Tick, Tick, Tick

As temperatures head up + up, dangerous disease-bearing ticks march north

Climate And The Courts: Post-RBG

Key legal decisions + key legal principles that will be in play as federal courts hear the next generation of climate cases

September 24, 2020

Weird Weather's Double Whammy

More heat? Check. More drought? Check.But now, there is more of both together. Uh-oh

McKinsey On The Climate Crisis

"Most of the increase in direct impact from climate hazards to date has come from greater exposure to hazards rather than from increases in the mean and tail intensity of hazards. In the future, hazard intensification will likely assume a greater role."

September 23, 2020

Just Say No, By 2035

By 2035, the sale of news gas-powered cars in California will be banned. But, as climate activists have noted, there is no ban on oil drilling or fracking in the state

Help Wanted: Staff Writer

Earther, an environmental news website nested within Gizmodo, seeks an experienced Staff Writer/Reporter with a critical eye + the ability to ask (and answer) big questions about the climate crisis

The Sustainability Manager We Need Now

What is sustainability management + what can it accomplish?

Sending Out An SOS

September 22, 2020

UN: Leaders' Speeches

Chinese President Ji pledges his nation to reaching carbon neutrality while President Trump goes on about the "Chinese" flu at the opening day session of he UN