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Climate@slrpnk.net•Trump’s EPA reportedly poised to axe carbon pollution rules for power plants3·22 hours agoNo. It’s to provide legal protection for polluters
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News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
3·2 days agoMost of the US isn’t paying attention to any news outlet which would cover this
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Building codes are holding back low-carbon concrete. A new study shows why.5·6 days agoThe study is for Europe, but in the US, the construction industry writes a model code and localities mostly just adopt it with fairly limited local changes
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
10·6 days agoNot that anybody but billionaires will ever get paid
Each week the government said less about the findings of the board of inquiry which was to decide how the $5000 per person could be wangled. It became easier to answer malcontents with a cuff from a Minute Man than by repetitious statements from Washington.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes3·8 days agoPolicy action books
I’m about to start The Carbon Wave
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News@lemmy.world•Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80
4·8 days agoApparently he made a religious film
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Wildfires are front-page news. Why isn't their cause?12·12 days agoThere has been a big PR effort by the fossil fuels industry to blame arson, when that’s been responsible for a fraction of fires forever. What’s changed is the higher temperatures and lower humidity that goes with them, letting otherwise easily-contained fires grow rapidly. And that change is a result of burning fossil fuels.
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Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity
1·14 days agoCalifornia at the point where utility-scale batteries can power the state overnight a few days a year. If we are actually able to build offshore wind, and proceed with the planned battery build-out, it’s going to be most of the year. And the ecological armageddon isn’t happening.
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World News@lemmy.world•U.N. Says World Will Miss Its Climate Target and That Warming Must Be ReversedEnglish
1·14 days agoThe amount locked in is more like 2°C if we did a crash shift off fossil fuels and meat. Those higher numbers presuppose that people won’t forcibly shut down fossil fuel using plants and equipment before the end of its useful life.
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politics @lemmy.world•New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
13·14 days agoThey don’t show any indication that they’re going to listen to the judge.
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World News@lemmy.world•U.N. Says World Will Miss Its Climate Target and That Warming Must Be ReversedEnglish
41·14 days agoThey’re not yet at runaway. If we drop emissons to zero, then temperatures stabilize within a human lifetime
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politics @lemmy.world•Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms | The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
2·14 days agoI don’t know or care what’s down in their heart or heart or innermost thoughts. It doesn’t really matter either. What matters is that they spend a huge amount of money promoting hate so that they will have a slightly lower tax rate
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politics @lemmy.world•The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler | A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.
91·15 days agoIt’s not their first article on the topic.
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politics @lemmy.world•Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
5·15 days agoBasically all the crazy computer security problems start affecting ballots. You really don’t want to do this if it can possibly be avoided. Particularly not in the US where you don’t have any kind of universal way to identify people online in any kind of reliable way.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•The Climate Crisis Is Bigger Than Your Footprint | The climate crisis won’t be solved with lifestyle choices but through political pressure and bold collective action.152·15 days agoYou turn up. In person. You show the ability to interfere with political fundraising. You work to turn out voters on your side. You areange boycotts and other measures.
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politics @lemmy.world•Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
20·15 days agoIt’s on us.
Start asking local officials to arrange for volunteer ballot delivery and print-at-home







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