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Another Supply Chain Issue

Legal Planet

To make the energy transition work, we’ll need a lot more energy lawyers. Our basic strategy for the next phase of climate policy is to electrify everything possible, from transportation to industry. And we need people who can address the electricity pricing issues that come along with basically revamping our power system.

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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Standing in the voting booth, I asked myself how it was possible that someone like me, who has devoted my career to studying political science and elections and who does research ahead of time, was encountering such difficulties just trying to cast my vote? For example, in 2020 New York, New Mexico, and Arkansas had more than 2.5

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Illinois Dust Storm Disaster Is a Warning for Agriculture

Union of Concerned Scientists

On a stretch of interstate highway in central Illinois last week, a freak dust storm caused a series of massive vehicle pileups that killed seven people and injured dozens more. This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate.

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Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation isn’t listening to local input on Highway 413

Enviromental Defense

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) isn’t listening to people and communities. . Last week the Ministry concluded three online Public Information Centres (PICs) to supposedly gather input from people who would be impacted by Highway 413, a proposed mega-highway in the Greater Toronto Area. The solution.

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As West Withers Corporations Consolidate Land and Water Rights

Circle of Blue

This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. Fewer owners. A world of scarcity.”.

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Falling Walls 2023: How open science and systems thinking can save the planet 

Frontiers

The Falling Walls Science Summit is a prominent gathering that unites experts from various scientific disciplines to explore groundbreaking research and foster collaborative solutions for the challenges of our time. Now it’s time to pull up our sleeves and get serious. Now we need to deliver.

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Who Should Pay to Fix California’s Sunken Canals?

Circle of Blue

This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. By Theo Whitcomb, High Country News.

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