Sat.Dec 03, 2022

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Unforced variations: Dec 2022

Real Climate

This month’s open thread for climate discussions. Please be constructive and polite. The post Unforced variations: Dec 2022 first appeared on RealClimate.

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Contrary to FIFA’s claims the Qatar World Cup is set to emit record-high CO2 emissions

A Greener Life

The Al Thumama Stadium. By Anders Lorenzen. The announcement by FIFA , the world’s governing football body, that the 2022 World Cup held in Qatar will be the greenest ever should be taken with a pinch of salt experts have said. Major sporting events like the World Cup and the Olympics always claim that their next event will be the greenest ever as institutions like the IOC and FIFA are held accountable for their emissions.

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In a New Book, Annie Proulx Shows Us How to Fall in Love with Wetlands

Inside Climate News

These vital carbon sinks and havens for biodiversity, rarely encountered, are disappearing three times faster than forests. By Kiley Bense In a quiet corner of the oldest botanic garden in North America grows a tree with long, graceful branches and leaves that curl like rust-colored tongues. When it’s blooming, the tree’s snow-white flowers are said to smell like honeysuckle, but at the end of November, its branches are bare, and its leaves are mostly heaped on the ground, a browning pile on the

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Bay Journal: EPA Says PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Falls Short, Again

PA Environment Daily

By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal The third time did not prove to be the charm for Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan, at least as far as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is concerned. Although the state this year committed significant additional funding to reduce Bay pollution, the EPA said its third cleanup plan in four years still falls short in funding and still fails to meet cleanup goals.

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 12.3.22

PA Environment Daily

Are You Telling Your Story? Senate session schedule- January 3, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 February 1, 27, 28 March 1, 6, 7, 8 Budget hearings: March 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 and April 11, 12, 13 April 24, 25, 26 May 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule House returns to voting session January 3 [Democrats, Republicans Fighting Over Schedule] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Incoming Shapiro-Davis Administ