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Climate@slrpnk.net•New York State backtracked on its climate goals. The change comes at the behest of Governor Kathy Hochul, a moderate Democrat who has often criticized climate action for increasing consumer costs.121·4 days agoPretty much: he’s taken a lot of oil industry money.
We don’t actually know if Steyer will make it through the primary yet.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Removal of Ocean Monitors41·4 days agoSince Democrats hold a minority in both houses of Congress, noise is the one thing they can actually do. It works occasionally
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Right-wing media are using an IPCC climate scenario revision to attack climate science and climate policy10·5 days agoBeen a standard argument of theirs for a long time. Eg: the fact that human decisionmaking limited acid rain and ozone depletion is seen as a reason to not need to address any other environmental issues
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Climate@slrpnk.net•3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined10·5 days agoIt probably won’t look quite like that because cheap solar is going to power air conditioning at a scale which gets most people through it
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•'At what point does it make sense to ditch a gas car for an electric vehicle?'
97·6 days agoFar far less than if you keep on driving a gas car. It’s better to not drive at all, but we’re not going to get everybody out of cars.
Proper scrapping does mean destroying the old car and not merely selling it
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•'At what point does it make sense to ditch a gas car for an electric vehicle?'
207·6 days agoIt actually makes sense to replace a gas car that is still running in a lot of cases
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Gas usage has peaked and is now in structural decline across Australia, report says | Grattan Institute calls on Labor to set policies that will further reduce the use of gas in order to meet net zero7·6 days agoBatteries do wonders for letting people keep on cooking. So does putting power lines underground.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•'At what point does it make sense to ditch a gas car for an electric vehicle?'
109·6 days agoThe point is that in many places, it makes financial sense sense to scrap a still-running gas car.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Xavier Becerra has doubts about California's EV ambitions
2·7 days agoIt’s a top-two primary, so we’re likely to end up with Steyer/Becerra or Becerra/Hilton in the general.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•US securities regulator seeks to end corporate disclosures on climate risk4·8 days agoYes. Which they do by dropping coverage. Already happened in some parts of the country
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Climate@slrpnk.net•UK struggles to adapt to hotter summers | Significant investment required in homes and infrastructure to build resilience, say experts1·8 days agoSame way large parts of the US did as high temperature went from being a mild and occasional annoyance to being a frequent thing.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•California just handed oil companies billions in free pollution permits29·8 days agoCalifornia lets companies directly fund political campaigns, so a large fraction of politicians feel they owe the oil industry a favor.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Americans Doubt Countries Will Do Enough to Tame Climate Change41·9 days agoThe rest of the world basically does not exist in the US press so that’s what people think about
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News@lemmy.world•ICE Agent Charged in Minnesota Shooting Is Arrested in Texas
29·9 days agoSounds like it was at the request of Minnesota prosecutors and for assault
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•After Traffic Stop for Phone in Right Hand, She Called Out the ProblemEnglish
281·9 days agoRealistically a lot. Especially for drivers with dark skin.
Automated enforcement gets actual violations if done right. But it tickets the white and rich a lot more, so there is huge pushback
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•After Traffic Stop for Phone in Right Hand, She Called Out the ProblemEnglish
16·9 days agoI don’t know how she did it, but the solution I’ve seen was to attach a spinner knob to the wheel. Cheap and easy to do. And gives mobility to somebody who otherwise wouldn’t have it
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Bezos Earth Fund Is Off Pace to Meet $10 Billion Climate Giving Pledge3·9 days agoMy guess is that it was intended to dangle in front of environmental groups so they wouldn’t openly support employees who had organized into what was turning into a union called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
















No idea, but the US actively exports a fair bit of coal