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What about a health-centered plan to tackle the climate crisis?

Environmental News Bits

It’s finally time to stop talking about catastrophes that are still an abstract to most people and frame climate change in very real terms. Why not take a health-centered approach to take on the climate crisis? Read the full story at Triple Pundit.

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Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles

Law Columbia

However, misinformation and coordinated disinformation about renewable energy is widespread and threatens to undermine public support for the transition. Achieving the United States’ ambitious emissions reduction goals depends in large part on the rapid adoption of wind and solar energy and the electrification of consumer vehicles.

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Yes, It’s That Time of Year Again

Legal Planet

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Webinar: Climate change is front and center. Learn from three experts about the effects it’s having, and how communities can prepare.?

Environmental News Bits

Feb 23, 2022 3 pm CSTRegister here. Join three climate science leaders for a webinar exploring the impact that global warming is having on North America, from its mountains and glaciers to its cities and people. What is climate change doing to snow, ice and water supplies? How is it raising the risks of wildfires… Read more →

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Spewing Out Mercury

Legal Planet

It turns out that those power plants produce about a third of all the toxic mercury emissions of the entire industry. Even more remarkably, about half of those mercury emissions come from just three power plants spewing toxic smoke. It also emits about 260 pounds of toxic mercury a year. It’s about time.

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Critical Insights on the Mineral Boom: Part II

Legal Planet

Panel Three, “Community Impacts of Critical Mineral Extraction,” explored this further and offered a potential path through the fascinating but fundamentally fraught issues at the center of this symposium. The Salton Sea “Voice, agency, and meaningful compensation.”

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Ask a Scientist: Defending the Right to Vote

Union of Concerned Scientists

Talking to Taryn MacKinney, an investigative researcher with our Center for Science and Democracy, about how science is intertwined with democracy and the prospects for voting reform bills on Capitol Hill.

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