Infrastructure

"Texas Is Unprepared for Compound Climate Disasters"

"Sandra Edwards awoke on the morning of July 8 to the sounds of howling winds and gushing water. As she made her way from the bedroom to the living room, she stepped in a puddle. She turned on her phone’s flashlight and saw a hole in the roof, wooly insulation hanging off the ceiling and water pouring in. Hurricane Beryl had just made landfall in Houston."

Source: Public Health Watch, 01/17/2025

"Biden Admin Offers Utilities $22.4B To Cut Energy Costs — And Emissions"

"The Biden administration announced $22.4 billion in loans for eight U.S. utilities across 12 states on Thursday, in what may be the swan song for an Inflation Reduction Act program aimed at cutting carbon emissions and energy bills by helping build and retrofit power plants and bolster the grid."

Source: Canary Media, 01/17/2025

UNC Could Burn Polluting Pellets Composed of Paper and Plastic

"While burning the pellets would reduce greenhouse gases from the university’s physical plant, it would increase harmful levels of nitrogen oxides, lead, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds."

Source: Inside Climate News, 01/16/2025

"Biden Approved LA Wildfire Aid. But Trump Will Control Spending."

"President-elect Donald Trump will have wide authority over Los Angeles’ recovery from the wildfires that have decimated areas of the city — even though President Joe Biden approved disaster aid in the final days of his term."

Source: E&E News, 01/16/2025

Maine: "Yarmouth Approves Plan To Remove Two Royal River Dams"

"The Yarmouth town council voted unanimously this month to remove two town-owned dams on the Royal River and consider fish passage improvements at a stretch of rapids in between them, a historic vote more than two decades in the making."

Source: Maine Monitor, 01/15/2025

"This Group Says Natural Gas Bans Hurt Minorities. It Has Gas Industry Ties."

"The Energy Poverty Awareness Center, which fought climate legislation in Maryland, has ties to a group that is partly funded by oil and gas companies."

Source: Washington Post, 01/14/2025

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