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Extreme Heat: A Hot Issue in Sacramento

Legal Planet

During the 2021-2022 Legislative Session, numerous bills were introduced to protect people from extreme heat and increase the State’s heat and climate resilience. An examination of mortality data from this period shows that thousands more people died on extremely hot days, estimating that extreme heat caused about 3,900 deaths.

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Secret behind spectacular blooms in world’s driest desert is invisible to human eyes

Frontiers

The 2021 ‘ desierto florido’ near Caldera, Chile. A ‘desierto florido’ mass bloom happened in the northern Atacama desert in 2021, which was even visible from space. Martínez-Harms and colleagues studied a desierto florido event in late 2021 near the city of Caldera in northern Chile. Image credit: Oven Pérez-Nates.

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Senate Confirms Three PUC Commissioners Bringing 5-Member Panel Up To Full Strength For First Time In More Than 18th Months

PA Environment Daily

Wolf on April 21, 2021 (Earth Day) they would reject all future nominees to the PUC until he withdraws his executive order joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. He served as vice chairman of the Commission from 2011 to 2015, and from October 2021 through September 2022.

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