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He also transferred $10B of taxpayer money to the Board of Peace. As the self assigned chairman of this group into perpetuity, he decides how to spend this money.
He essentially funneled the money to himself to build real estate in Gaza that he can profit from. How is this not criminal?

China — China! — has signed off on a report that warns focusing on unchecked economic growth is contributing to the destruction of global biodiversity.

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“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Oil and gas companies are war criminals. They are destroying the only livable climate in the known universe. They are Trump’s allies. They are the enemies of everyone good.

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

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“Obsessed with this issue”? Anyone not “obsessed” with the climate crisis has lost the plot. In the end, we’re all going down with this ship.

I cannot believe AI technology destroying our world is not bigger news.

Trump Administration Scraps Oversight Groups on Climate and Financial Risk The Financial Stability Oversight Council revoked the charters of two climate-focused committees formed under the Biden administration.

The Trump administration has scrapped two financial oversight committees that assessed risks posed by climate change.

The CDC’s Cuts to FoodNet Could Threaten Americans’ Health Public health experts worry that downsizing the sprawling FoodNet surveillance system could make it harder to prevent food-borne illnesses.

The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year.

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind.

“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.

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When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually…

Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.

Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.

(Published Aug. 2024)

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
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No justification for this. Vile, threatening exhibition.

Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity.

Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.

The flights are all turbulent, the storms are all catastrophic, the plants are all scorched or frozen. There is no peace in a world on fire.

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

NJ stands to lose $19B in health care spending from Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' New Jersey is poised to lose $19.2 billion over the next nine years in health care spending from the House bill that includes steep cuts to Medicaid.

Republican Death Bill
NJ will lose $19 Billion in healthcare spending.
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Or, they’re too greedy, too thoughtless, too narcissistic and too cruel to care.

The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.

The only way to survive is to elect fierce climate leaders and get your financial portfolio out of the fossil fuel industry.

Earth set to exhaust ‘carbon budget’ within 3 years as Paris hopes fade Goal of limiting warming to 1.5C looks increasingly out of reach, study finds

Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.

Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

Dissent is in the suburbs and in the countryside.

This is not just stupid and cruel. It's about the weaponization of extreme heat as a political tool.

Burning fossil fuels superheats the planet. That heat kills outdoor workers, including workers in the oil fields. But the companies that make billions from the oil & gas produced in those fields not only don't care about their cooked workers, they actively fight laws to protect them.

quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Republicans are pushing us towards an unlivable planet.

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…

Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.

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eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease Researchers estimate that exposure to phthalates contributes to 13 percent of all heart disease deaths in people between 55 and 64 years old each year.

A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eBioMedicine.

The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates A new study estimates that the world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, which is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last ...

Reminder: those responsible for fires & floods have names & job titles.