FEMA Rolls Out Text App To Help Americans Find Shelters During Disasters
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has updated its texting feature to help Americans find open shelters during disasters."
Source: The Hill, 02/09/2022
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"Why This Could Be a Critical Year for Electric Cars"
"Sales of cars powered solely by batteries surged in the United States, Europe and China last year, while deliveries of fossil fuel vehicles were stagnant. Demand for electric cars is so strong that manufacturers are requiring buyers to put down deposits months in advance. And some models are effectively sold out for the next two years."
Source: NYTimes, 02/09/2022
Activists Urge the IEA to Remove Paywalls Around its Data
"A growing number of activists and academics are calling on the International Energy Agency to make its data free and available to everyone, ahead of the agency’s biennial board meeting in Paris next month."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/09/2022
Is Calif. Fight Against Rooftop Solar Utility-Funded Fake Grassroots?
"Over 70 member organizations in the coalition received charitable contributions in 2020 worth $1.67 million from big California utilities that see solar as the competition."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/09/2022
Mountain Glaciers May Have Less Ice Than Estimated, Straining Supply
"Glaciers could be tapped dry sooner than expected as climate change melts ice fields faster".
Source: Washington Post, 02/09/2022
World Leaders Descend On France For Ocean Summit
"Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean."
Source: Guardian, 02/09/2022
"For The First Time In Generations, Snoqualmie Tribe Has Land"
"The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has purchased thousands of acres of ancestral forestlands in east King County, land that holds special meaning to the people who have been without a reservation for generations."
Source: KUOW, 02/09/2022
Va. Senate Democrats Put Wheeler’s Bid For Youngkin’s Cabinet In Limbo
"Democrats who control the [Virginia] state Senate thwarted a Republican effort on Tuesday to revive the Cabinet bid of former Trump administration official Andrew Wheeler, leaving Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) embattled appointee in limbo."
Source: Washington Post, 02/09/2022
New U.N. Treaty Effort Could Cap Skyrocketing Plastics Production
"Negotiators from around the world will start work this month on a treaty to reduce plastic pollution, in what diplomats say is the most ambitious round of climate diplomacy since the 2015 Paris agreement that focuses on global warming."
Source: Washington Post, 02/09/2022
Preventing Next Pandemic Is Vastly Cheaper Than Reacting To It: Study
"A new study emphasizes the need to stop pandemics before they start, stepping beyond the quest for new vaccines and treatments for zoonotic diseases to also aggressively fund interventions that prevent them from happening in the first place."
Source: Mongabay, 02/09/2022
