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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>March 13, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[The UN speaks]<br>
<b>Polar vortex responsible for Texas deep freeze, warm Arctic
temperatures</b><br>
9 March 2021<br>
Climate and Environment<br>
A “polar vortex” was responsible for the freezing conditions in the
US state of Texas last month, UN weather experts said on Tuesday,
before warning of a worrying increase in global carbon dioxide
levels.<br>
<br>
Spokesperson Clare Nullis from the World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) told journalists during a regular briefing in Geneva that the
United States shivered through its coldest February since 1989,
thanks to the natural phenomenon:<br>
<br>
The vortex is “area of low pressure and cold air, surrounding either
of the poles”, she said. “It normally keeps cold air in the Arctic,
warmer air in the lower latitudes. It weakened this winter so that
meant that the cold air came spinning out of the Artic…warm air by
contrast went into parts of the Arctic.”...<br>
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href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086752">https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086752</a><br>
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[Back to the EPA] <br>
<b>Senate confirms Michael Regan to lead EPA</b><br>
The 44-year-old North Carolina regulator, the first Black man to
head the agency, has vowed to fight climate change and environmental
injustice<br>
Brady Dennis - Dino Grandoni - March 10, 2021<br>
<br>
The Senate confirmed Michael Regan on Wednesday as the next
Environmental Protection Agency administrator, a role that lies at
the heart of President Biden’s promises to cut the nation’s
greenhouse gas emissions and help poor and minority communities that
have long borne the brunt of pollution.<br>
<br>
In an era defined by partisan divides, Regan won confirmation by a
comfortable margin of 66 to 34. Sixteen Republicans and every Senate
Democrat voted in favor of Regan, 44, who since 2017 has served as
secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality.<br>
<br>
He will be the first Black man to lead the EPA in its half-century
of existence. The agency’s first African American chief was Lisa
Jackson, who held the role for four years under President Barack
Obama.<br>
<br>
“He is immensely qualified for this position, not only in
qualifications, but in his demeanor,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
said on the Senate floor before voting for Regan. “Too often we
overlook whether a nominee has the right character to lead an
organization. In this case, there’s no question that Michael Regan
has that character.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/10/regan-epa-confirmed/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/10/regan-epa-confirmed/</a><br>
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[We're gonna need a bigger toilet]<br>
<b>Sea-level rise drives wastewater leakage to coastal waters</b><br>
by Marcie Grabowski, University of Hawaii at Manoa - March 12, 2021<br>
<br>
When people think of sea level rise, they usually think of coastal
erosion. However, recent computer modeling studies indicate that
coastal wastewater infrastructure, which includes sewer lines and
cesspools, is likely to flood with groundwater as sea-level rises.<br>
[see the drawing <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/1-sealevelrise.jpg">https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/1-sealevelrise.jpg</a>
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A new study, published by University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa earth
scientists, is the first to provide direct evidence that
tidally-driven groundwater inundation of wastewater infrastructure
is occurring today in urban Honolulu, Hawai'i. The study shows that
higher ocean water levels are leading to wastewater entering storm
drains and the coastal ocean—creating negative impacts to coastal
water quality and ecological health.<br>
<br>
The study was led by postdoctoral researcher Trista McKenzie and
co-authored by UH Sea Grant coastal geologist Shellie Habel and
Henrietta Dulai, advisor and associate professor in the UH Mānoa
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). The team
assessed coastal ocean water and storm drain water in low-lying
areas during spring tides, which serve as an approximation of future
sea levels.<br>
<br>
To understand the connection between wastewater infrastructure,
groundwater and the coastal ocean, the researchers used chemical
tracers to detect groundwater discharge and wastewater present at
each site. Radon is a naturally occurring gas that reliably
indicates the presence of groundwater, while wastewater can be
detected by measuring specific organic contaminants from human
sources, such as caffeine and certain antibiotics.<br>
<br>
"Our results confirm that indeed, both groundwater inundation and
wastewater discharge to the coast and storm drains are occurring
today and that it is tidally-influenced," said McKenzie. "While the
results were predicted, I was surprised how prevalent the evidence
for these processes and the scale of it."<br>
<br>
In low-lying inland areas, storm drains can overflow every spring
tide. This study demonstrated that at the same time wastewater from
compromised infrastructure also discharges into storm drains. During
high tides, storm drains are becoming channels for untreated
wastewater to flood streets and sidewalks. In addition to impeding
traffic, including access by emergency vehicles, this flooding of
contaminated water also poses a risk to human health...<br>
<br>
The team also found evidence that many of the human-derived
contaminants were in concentrations that pose a high risk to aquatic
organisms. This has negative consequences to coastal organisms where
the groundwater and storm drains discharge.<br>
<br>
"Many people may think of sea-level rise as a future problem, but in
fact, we are already seeing the effects today," said McKenzie.
"Further, these threats to human health, ocean ecosystems and the
wastewater infrastructure are expected to occur with even greater
frequency and magnitude in the future."<br>
<br>
This project demonstrates that actions to mitigate the impact from
sea-level rise to coastal wastewater infrastructure in Honolulu are
no longer proactive but are instead critical to addressing current
issues. Through its multi-partner effort, the Hawai'i State Climate
Commission also raises awareness around the variety of impacts of
sea level rise, including those highlighted by this study.<br>
<br>
"Coastal municipalities should pursue mitigation strategies that
account for increased connectivity between wastewater infrastructure
and recreational and drinking water resources," said McKenzie. "We
need to consider infrastructure that minimizes flooding
opportunities and contact with contaminated water; and decreases the
number of contaminant sources, such as installation of one-way
valves for storm drains, decommissioning cesspools, monitoring
defective sewer lines, and construction of raised walkways and
streets."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2021-03-sea-level-wastewater-leakage-coastal.html">https://phys.org/news/2021-03-sea-level-wastewater-leakage-coastal.html</a><br>
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[Climate and religion]<br>
[ 19 min video documentary from University of Virginia - Religion,
Race & Democracy Lab]<br>
<b>The story of how potent forces came together to mount an army of
climate change skeptics in the name of God, country and
capitalism.</b><br>
DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY JEANINE ISABEL BUTLER AND CATHERINE LYNN
BUTLER<br>
Check out “God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance” from Religion, Race
& Democracy Lab on Vimeo.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/467843113">https://vimeo.com/467843113</a><br>
A BUTLERFILMS PRODUCTION FOR THE RELIGION, RACE & DEMOCRACY LAB<br>
In God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance viewers are taken on an
eye-opening journey through decades of religious polarization,
political propaganda, corporate deal-making, and environmental
injustice based on systemic racism. It’s a story often told in light
of social and cultural issues. It’s told less so in relation to the
biggest crisis facing us today—climate change.<br>
Download Transcript
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://religionlab.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/God_Green_Transcript.pdf">https://religionlab.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/God_Green_Transcript.pdf</a><br>
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Check out “God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance” from Religion, Race
& Democracy Lab on Vimeo.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/467843113">https://vimeo.com/467843113</a><br>
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<br>
[measured annually by MediaMatters ]<br>
<b>How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2020</b><br>
Special PROGRAMS CLIMATE & ENERGY<br>
WRITTEN BY TED MACDONALD - RESEARCH FROM ALLISON FISHER &
EVLONDO COOPER<br>
3/10/21<br>
<b>Introduction</b><br>
For this study, Media Matters examined 2020 news coverage of climate
change on broadcast TV networks, counting and analyzing segments
devoted to climate change and those in which a network figure
incorporated climate change or engaged with a guest who brought up
the issue. We analyzed coverage on the nightly news programs and
Sunday morning political shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC. We also
analyzed Fox Broadcasting Co.’s syndicated Sunday morning political
show, Fox News Sunday. Fox Broadcasting Co. (which is separate from
the Fox News cable channel) does not have a nightly news program, so
there was far less overall Fox airtime to analyze than the other
broadcast networks. In addition, weeknight episodes of PBS NewsHour
were analyzed for a comparison point with the nightly news programs
on ABC, CBS, and NBC, but they are not included in the full data
set.<br>
<br>
For the first time ever in this annual study, Media Matters also
analyzed climate coverage on the morning news programs on ABC, CBS,
and NBC. The typical running time for these programs is two hours,
with the exception of the weekday third hour and Saturday and Sunday
editions of NBC’s Today, and the Sunday edition of ABC's Good
Morning America. Today and Good Morning America air seven days a
week, while CBS This Morning airs six days a week. Due to this
volume of airtime, their unique format which includes weather
reports, and the lack of year-to-year comparative data from previous
studies, analysis of the network’s morning shows is reviewed
separately.<br>
<br>
Top trends from broadcast TV news climate coverage in 2020<br>
<b>Key findings:</b><br>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>-- The volume of corporate broadcast TV news coverage
of climate change -- nightly news shows and Sunday morning
political shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC -- plummeted from 238
minutes in 2019 to just 112 minutes in 2020, constituting a 53%
decrease.<br>
<br>
-- Every network decreased the number of climate segments (with
the exception of Fox, which aired the same amount of segments)
and total time they spent covering the issue from 2019 to 2020.
NBC aired the most minutes of climate coverage in 2020 -- 38 --
while CBS and ABC aired 36 minutes and 32 minutes of coverage,
respectively. CBS aired the most segments -- 22 -- while NBC and
ABC aired 19 and 18 segments, respectively. Fox Broadcasting Co.
aired six minutes of climate coverage across four segments on
its Sunday morning political program.<br>
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-- Corporate broadcast TV news mostly failed to explain the
links between the coronavirus and climate change, mentioning
them only three times on nightly news shows. By contrast,
broadcast morning shows made the connection 10 times. <br>
<br>
-- The 89 guests featured in broadcast TV climate segments in
2020 were predominantly white males, which continues a trend
that goes back to at least 2017. People of color made up only 8%
of guests who were interviewed or featured in the corporate
broadcast networks’ climate coverage. Women made up 28% of
guests -- and of the 89 total guests, only 6 were women of
color.<br>
<br>
-- Twenty-two segments out of 63 total -- 35% of all climate
segments on nightly news and Sunday political shows in 2020 --
aired during September, making it the best-performing month for
broadcast TV news of climate coverage for the second year
running. Notably, September’s coverage was heavily dominated by
the destructive wildfires in the western U.S. <br>
<br>
-- Three months -- March, April, and June -- featured no nightly
or Sunday political show segments on climate.<br>
<br>
-- Major drivers of climate coverage in 2020 included the
Australian and western U.S. wildfires, other major extreme
weather events, and the 2020 presidential election, including
discussions of President Joe Biden’s climate plan. Taken
together, segments on these topics accounted for 75% of all
climate coverage -- 47 out of 63 segments.<br>
<br>
-- Corporate broadcast nightly news and Sunday morning shows
aired only 18 segments on climate solutions in 2020, accounting
for 29% of all climate coverage. In 2019, climate solutions
represented 37% of total climate coverage.<br>
<br>
-- PBS NewsHour’s climate coverage declined 58% from 2019 to
2020. The program aired 58 climate segments in 2020, compared to
121 segments in 2019. Despite this decrease, PBS NewsHour was
still the best-performing nightly news show for climate coverage
in 2020, airing nearly as many segments as the other broadcast
networks combined. PBS NewsHour, however, is not included in the
full dataset. <br>
<br>
-- For the first time ever, Media Matters also analyzed the
morning news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC -- these programs aired
267 minutes of climate coverage combined across 158 segments.
NBC dominated this coverage, which is partly due to the fact
that the network has an extra hour in its morning show. NBC’s
Today aired 121 minutes of coverage across 75 segments; CBS This
Morning aired 89 minutes across 51 segments; and ABC’s Good
Morning America aired 58 minutes across 32 segments.<br>
<br>
-- All together, morning news, nightly news, and Sunday
political shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox aired just over 6
hours of climate coverage -- approximately 380 minutes -- across
221 segments in 2020. <br>
<br>
-- Combined climate coverage across all corporate broadcast news
programs -- morning news, nightly news, and Sunday morning
political shows -- accounted for only 0.4% of programming in
2020.</blockquote>
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<b>The overall volume of climate change coverage decreased
significantly from 2019 to 2020</b><br>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>Climate change coverage on corporate broadcast TV
nightly news and Sunday morning political shows decreased by 53%
from 2019 to 2020, going from 238 minutes to 112 minutes.
Furthermore, the total climate coverage in 2020 was also a 21%
decrease from 2018, when broadcast TV networks pitifully aired a
combined 142 minutes of coverage. In fact, in the 12 years that
Media Matters has been producing this study, 2020 ranks as the
fifth-worst year for climate coverage overall. This steep drop
is part of an emerging pattern of boom and bust climate coverage
on broadcast TV news that exposes how inconsistent climate
reporting has been over the last several years, being subject to
disruption and overshadowed by competing news cycles...<br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2020">https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2020</a><br>
<p>[and this is why we subscribe to this newsletter - now in it's
5th year]<br>
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[Dave Roberts has a strong opinion]<br>
<b>The most important job ahead for Democrats</b><br>
Democracy reform is a prerequisite for any livable political future.<br>
David Roberts - March 12, 2021<br>
- -<br>
The larger context of the 2020 election is an ongoing process
whereby America’s mostly white, rural, and suburban conservative
minority — which hasn’t won the popular vote in a presidential
election since 2004 — is gaining greater and greater structural
political advantages each passing year. Republicans are
overrepresented in the Senate, overrepresented by the Electoral
College, gerrymandered into safe House seats, and busy passing voter
suppression bills at the state level...<br>
- -<br>
I would put it this way: Democrats either pass substantial democracy
reform (including statehood for DC) through Congress in the next 18
months or they will lose one or both houses in 2022 and remain
locked out of congressional majorities for a decade if not longer...<br>
- - <br>
But I wasn’t particularly hopeful about Biden from the very
beginning of his presidential campaign, and at every juncture, he’s
done better than I expected. It’s the same since he took office. The
aura of low-drama competence he and his team have maintained so far
is pretty close to my best-case scenario for a Biden administration.<br>
<br>
So perhaps they know what they’re doing and will go to the mat for
democracy reform when the time comes. Perhaps they can pull
recalcitrant senators along with them. I suppose they’ve earned a
little hope.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-most-important-job-ahead-for">https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-most-important-job-ahead-for</a><br>
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[true cost accounting]<br>
<b>The price of coal weighs heavy on planetary health</b><br>
March 11th, 2021, by Tim Radford<br>
In air pollution terms alone, the price of coal is huge. The true
price of energy in almost any fossil form is colossal.<br>
<br>
LONDON, 11 March, 2021 − Does anyone think fossil fuels should be
more expensive? The true price of coal, oil and gas − the cost they
exact on human health and in environmental destruction − in the
energy and transport sectors worldwide could add up to very nearly
US$25 trillion (£18tn).<br>
<br>
And in the economists’ favourite measure of wealth, that is more
than one fourth of the whole world’s Gross Domestic Product, or GDP.<br>
<br>
That fossil fuels are subsidised and their “external” costs rarely
factored in to the price is well known and widely condemned.<br>
<br>
But researchers in the UK and Korea report in the journal Energy
Research and Social Science that they decided to try to put a price
on all the “externalities” − both the unrecorded or unexpected costs
and the unconsidered benefits to be connected with the supply of
electricity, energy efficicency, and transport.<br>
<br>
“Our research has identified immense hidden costs that are almost
never factored into the true expense of driving a car or operating a
coal-powered power station”<br>
<br>
Their considered estimate? It adds up to $24.662 million million.
And measured against the global GDP, that reaches 28.7%.<br>
<br>
What the scientists see in this accounting is a measure of the way
the market has failed the world’s energy systems. If governments
included the social costs as well as the production costs of nuclear
power plant and fossil-fuelled generation systems, they’d pronounce
them economically unviable.<br>
<br>
“Our research has identified immense hidden costs that are almost
never factored into the true expense of driving a car or operating a
coal-powered power station,” said Benjamin Sovacool of the
University of Sussex, UK, who led the study.<br>
<br>
“Including these costs would dramatically change least-cost planning
processes and integrated resource portfolios that energy suppliers
and others depend on. It is not that these costs are never paid by
society, they are just not reflected in the costs of energy. And
unfortunately, these costs are not distributed equally or fairly.”<br>
<br>
<b>Coal’s highest price</b><br>
The “externalities factor” extends to all human action: there are
unconsidered costs to wind, hydro, solar and other renewable energy
systems too. What Professor Sovacool and his colleagues did was
scrutinise 139 separate studies of these hidden costs to identify
704 separate estimates of externalities. Of these, 83 were for
energy supply, 13 for energy efficiency, and 43 for transport.<br>
<br>
Coal exacted by far the highest hidden price across the energy
markets of just four countries and regions: China, Europe, India and
the US. Coal had three times as many “negative externalities” as
solar photovoltaic power generation, five times that of wind
turbines and 155 times more than geothermal power.<br>
<br>
Climate risks from fossil fuel emissions could cost some countries
19% of their GDP by 2030: developing nations would be hardest hit.<br>
<br>
That coal and oil combustion has, over two centuries, cost lives,
damaged human health and blighted natural ecosystems is not news.
Indoor and outdoor pollution, from power utilities, exhaust pipes
and household ovens is behind 4.7 million deaths and the loss of 147
million years of healthy life, every year.<br>
<br>
<b>Guiding post-Covid recovery</b><br>
Pollution kills three times more people than malaria, tuberculosis
and HIV-Aids combined. The surprise is in the scale of economic
costs.<br>
<br>
The point of research like this is to help national and regional
governments to make practical and sustainable decisions in a
concerted effort to revive economic activity but at the same time to
contain climate change.<br>
<br>
“Our findings are timely and we hope they will help inform the
design of Green New Deals or post-pandemic Covid-19 recovery
packages around the world,” said Jinsoo Kim, a co-author, of both
Sussex and Hanyang University in Korea.<br>
<br>
“Some of the most important commonalities of many stimulus packages
have been bailouts for the fossil fuel, automotive and aeronautic
industries, but a global and national recovery may not be
sustainable if the true cost of these industries is not factored
in.” − Climate News Network<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.net/the-price-of-coal-weighs-heavy-on-planetary-health/">https://climatenewsnetwork.net/the-price-of-coal-weighs-heavy-on-planetary-health/</a><br>
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[we are not surprised -- nor are we amused]<br>
<b>A Large PR Firm Pledged To Fight Climate Change. Then It Took
Millions From A Notorious Fossil Fuel Trade Group.</b><br>
Edelman, a PR firm that’s pledged to “work with an environmental
conscience,” was paid $4 million to promote one of the most extreme
fossil fuel trade groups in the country, new tax filings show.<br>
Zahra Hirji - Kendall Taggart - BuzzFeed News Reporters<br>
March 12, 2021<br>
Edelman, one of the largest public relations firms in the world, has
pledged never to work with climate deniers and proudly touts its
work on environmental justice campaigns with brands like Tazo Tea.<br>
<br>
But newly released tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News show that
in 2019 the company accepted more than $4 million from the American
Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, a major US oil trade
organization that even Shell and BP had recently dumped for its
aggressive opposition to popular climate solutions.<br>
"Edelman is basically misleading the public about its so-called
green reputation,” Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at
Brown University who studies climate lobbying and advertising, told
BuzzFeed News.<br>
<br>
The global public relations powerhouse has roughly 6,000 employees
working to “promote and protect” prominent brands like Ikea, KFC,
and Dove. Selling its own socially conscious image, the company has
repeatedly stressed its commitment to efforts to “reduce emissions,”
“work with an environmental conscience,” and “lead in the transition
to sustainable and socially responsible business models.” On its
website, Edelman proudly declares it worked with cleantech companies
“long before climate change became a buzzword.”<br>
<br>
But in recent years, Edelman has faced a backlash, both publicly and
internally, over its willingness to take on high-profile campaigns
for clients that are big polluters.<br>
<br>
After four high-level executives quit in 2015 citing this issue, the
firm publicly pledged never to work with coal clients or climate
deniers. The vague commitment left the door open to a broad range of
work for fossil fuel businesses or companies that have fought
against regulations cutting carbon pollution...<br>
<br>
“Right now the only categorical exclusion we have is on climate
denial and coal,” Michael Stewart, then a top Edelman executive,
told the Guardian in 2015. “When you are trying in some way to
obfuscate the truth or use misinformation and half-truths that is
what we would consider getting into the work of greenwashing, and
that is something we would never propose or work we would support
our client doing.”<br>
<br>
But AFPM, a trade group that pulled in more than $55 million in
revenue in 2019 alone, has aggressively opposed climate action and
provided funding to the Heartland Institute, a climate denial group.
AFPM has paid Edelman at least $12 million for public relations work
from 2017 to 2019, tax filings show.<br>
<br>
AFPM has taken some of the most extreme positions among fossil fuel
trade groups, including helping create Energy4Us, a group that ran
Facebook ads supporting the Trump administration’s rollbacks of
national fuel efficiency standards without initially disclosing its
ties to the oil and gas industry. The trade group also helped fund a
campaign opposing a carbon tax in Washington state.<br>
<br>
The trade group’s hardline climate policies prompted Royal Dutch
Shell to announce in the spring of 2019 that it would not be
renewing its AFPM membership, followed by the French oil company
Total and the UK giant BP. All three oil companies, which are among
the world’s top climate polluters, cited the trade group’s
opposition to a carbon tax and lack of support for the Paris climate
agreement in their decisions to quit.<br>
<br>
AFPM is “not technically denying climate change but they might as
well be,” said Andrew Logan, senior director of the oil and gas
industry program at the corporate sustainability group Ceres...<br>
- -<br>
Edelman recently became a target of a public pressure campaign
dubbed “Clean Creatives,” which is trying to get public relations
firms and ad agencies to commit to refusing future contracts with
fossil fuel companies, trade associations, and front groups.<br>
<br>
And sometime over the past year, the firm quietly changed the
section of its website dedicated to its “Position on Climate” to a
position on “Energy and the Environment.”<br>
In recent blog posts, CEO Richard Edelman has heralded the business
community for being “prepared to take the lead in fighting the twin
evils of climate change and inequality” and urged companies to
consider setting climate science–based targets.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/edelman-fossil-fuel-pr-climate">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/edelman-fossil-fuel-pr-climate</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
March 13, 2001 </b></font><br>
<p>The Bush administration announces that it will not regulate
carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, abandoning a campaign
pledge under pressure from the fossil fuel industry. <br>
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