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We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

This summer, like many of my fellow climate scientists, I’ll try to recount the facts I remember and those I’ve been disciplined enough to write down for all the reporters who work tirelessly to tell the story of how we got here and where we should go from here. During a pandemic.

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

The petitioners hope that disaster declarations can unlock federal funds for short-term relief such as cooling centers, water supplies, emergency air conditioning and air filtration systems, and financial assistance for evacuations. University scientists and health and safety groups are filling in the gaps as best they can.

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Senate Committees Hear Familiar Pro/Con Comments On Economic, Environmental Impacts Of EQB’s Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants - RGGI

PA Environment Daily

It needs to be an informed decision with equal input from climate scientists and economists. In 1970 in the Boston Globe newspaper, there was a scientist from the atmospheric research in Boulder, Colorado predicted that an ice age would be upon us by the 21st century. Pennsylvania must get this decision on RGGI right.