Activists Slam Biden Administration for Reversing Climate and Equity Guidance on Highway Expansions – InsideClimate News
Environmental justice activists are chastising the Biden administration’s recent decision to rescind federal guidance that urged states to consider climate change and equity when tapping the $110 billion in federal infrastructure money that’s coming their way for roads, bridges and…
Biden’s Regulatory Deluge Is An Assault On Taxpayers, The Country
If you thought the GOP takeover of the House means gridlock in Washington prevails, think again. Rule by regulation is accelerating and the only check will be the courts. President Biden is leading an unprecedented expansion of the administrative state….
Senate Bill Bans Banks From Making Lending Decisions Based On Politics
Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., reintroduced the Fair Access to Bank Act to combat what he called the “weaponization of the financial system.” According to the bill, banks and credit unions with assets over $10 billion would face penalties of up…
Study: World likely to hit key warming threshold in 10-12 years – Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3
The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study that’s…
Death in the marshes: environmental calamity hits Iraq’s unique wetlands
Small gangs of buffaloes sat submerged in green and muddy waters. Their back ridges rose over the surface like a chain of black islets, spanning the Toos River, a tributary of the Tigris that flows into the Huwaiza marshes in…
UCLA Law Prof: ‘Hi-Tech Capitalist Solutions’ For Climate Change Are Racist
A law professor at UCLA believes “hi-tech capitalist solutions” for the alleged climate-change crisis are “perpetuating racism.” Tendayi Achiume [pictured], who’s finishing up her tenure as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance,…
Op-Ed: Climate change efforts won’t work if they exclude people with disabilities – Los Angeles Times
At last month’s United Nations climate negotiations in Egypt, disability activists urged governments to include people with disabilities in their plans to address climate change. In response, the member states adopted an “overarching decision” and a climate action plan that…
Museums Of Vandalism, Doomsayers, And Climate Catastrophe
It is probably fair to say that the last few months in the life of the average gallery attendant have become a little more challenging than usual. A role that ordinarily requires spending hours on end in largely silent rooms…
Climate Change Is Fueling Migration. Do Climate Migrants Have Legal Protections? – Council on Foreign Relations
Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative at Harvard Divinity School, leads the conversation on religious literacy in international affairs. FASKIANOS: Welcome to the final session of the Fall 2022 CFR Academic Webinar Series….
Climate change can be beaten â Why some scientists are hopeful
Kofoworola Belo-Osagie talks to scientists to share the reasons that give them hope inspite of climate change
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