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On Monday, President Joe Biden visited Palo Alto, California, to announce a project that will help coastal communities around the country fight climate change by investing more than $600 million, which will come from his climate and infrastructure bills. Last August, Biden signed a $430 billion bill that became the biggest climate package in United States history. The bill aims to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, fund climate research and invest in clean-energy projects to decrease pollution in disadvantaged communities. The money given to coastal communities will back a $575 million project to f...
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A week and a half after centrist Sen. Joe Manchin‘s (D-West Virginia) long-held talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-New York) seemed to narrow to a limited health care deal, the two reached a surprise agreement on a reconciliation package that includes major climate and economic provisions of President Joe Biden‘s deconstructed Build Back Better social spending bill. “It’s like two brothers from different mothers, I guess. He gets pissed off, I get pissed off, and we’ll go back and forth. He basically put out statements, and the dogs came after me again,” Manchin after the deal, ...
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On Thursday, a federal judge revoked offshore drilling leases granted by the Biden administration for 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. A union of environmental groups sued the administration to stop the lease sale. “We are pleased that the court invalidated Interior’s illegal lease sale,” Earthjustice senior attorney Brettny Hardy said in a statement. “We simply cannot continue to make investments in the fossil fuel industry to the peril of our communities and increasingly warming planet.” The Trump administration had ordered the lease sale and the Biden administration tried to stop it....
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has a plan to reinvent nuclear power as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global climate change. Gates-founded nuclear energy company TerraPower, based in Bellevue, Wyoming, intends to construct a nuclear reactor called Natrium, which is cooled by liquid sodium, at the site of the former Naughton coal plant. Fission, or splitting of enriched uranium atoms, will power the reactor. Gates has been a long-time proponent of nuclear power as a zero-emissions alternative to traditional fossil fuels. He believes that incorporating nuclear energy into the ...
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The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) officially declared the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 other species on Wednesday. The agency has also proposed that these 23 species be removed from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) list, which helps preserve endangered species on the federal level. “Each of these 23 species represents a permanent loss to our nation’s natural heritage and to global biodiversity,” said Bridget Fahey, who’s in charge of classification for the Fish and Wildlife Service. “And it’s a sobering reminder that extinction is a consequence of human-caused environment...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) asked Jennifer Eberlien, representative of the National Forest System, whether the orbit of the moon or the Earth could be altered in order to fight climate change during a recent House subcommittee hearing. Gohmert attempted to connect solar flare activity to climate change. Gohmert asked the associate deputy chief if “there [is] anything that the National Forest Service or BLM (Bureau of Land Management) can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun?” The congressman justified his question by claiming a past director of NASA ...
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President Joe Biden spoke at the international Earth Day summit Thursday reaffirming that America “has resolved to take action” against climate change. Biden announced that the United States is now committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and urged world leaders to make similar goals. “The signs are unmistakable, the science is undeniable and the cost of inaction keeps mounting,” Biden said at the virtual summit. “The countries that take decisive actions now will be the ones that reap the clean energy benefits of the boom that’s coming.” Biden’s pledge was matched by India...
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President Joe Biden argued on the campaign trail and during his time representing Delaware that America’s infrastructure needs modernization. Now in the White House, Biden and his administration are eyeing a massive infrastructure upgrade plan, which would also affect access to child care and rising drug costs. The bill in development would round out at approximately $3 trillion split between two bills. The first would focus on infrastructure, manufacturing, climate change measures and expanding access to broadband and 5G Internet. The other bill would create a universal free pre-K program, tw...
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