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Communities Turned into Sewage Swamps

Circle of Blue

According to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Green Drop Report for 2022 – an audit of all wastewater treatment works in the country for the period July 2020 to June 2021 – Standerton wastewater treatment works is 164% over capacity, achieving an overall score of just 17%, which puts it into the ‘critical risk category.’

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

He argues that I construct strawmen, promote nuclear energy above other energies, and engage in ad hominem (personal) attacks. Gleick falsely accuses me of cherry-picking a quote from a 2019 New York Times story on Amazon fires. “If felt that India, among others, was probably in this category.

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How climate change could sink the US real estate market

A Greener Life

” She started speaking out about her flooding issues in the spring of 2020. In Phoenix, the median home price surged by 69 percent between 2019 and 2022, according to Zillow, even as the Southwest was experiencing its deepest drought in 1,200 years. His group has been engaged with the agency as it finds its way on this topic.

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Revving up the Engine: Senate Prepares to Pass Landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation for Transportation, Broadband, Energy and Water Projects

Arnold Porter

Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), and included in the Senate EPW Committee’s legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs earlier this year, and in July of 2019. Eligibility. Speed Mandates. Subgrantees must deploy broadband at a speed of 100 Mbps for downloads and 20 Mpbs for uploads. Cost Sharing Requirements.

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Research briefing: why are reports of hate crime surging during the Israel-Hamas conflict?

Environmental Progress

And the lack of activity in the orbitofrontal cortex meant “they weren’t engaging the part of the brain that would say, ‘this is bad.’ spike after attack on Israel, Anti-Defamation League says” Politicians have been quick to speak out and act. 554 incidents of vandalism.’ 1,347 incidents of verbal or written harassment.’