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"Climate Crisis Turns World’s Subways Into Flood Zones"

"Terrified passengers trapped in flooded subway cars in Zhengzhou, China. Water cascading down stairways into the London Underground. A woman wading through murky, waist-deep water to reach a New York City subway platform. Subway systems around the world are struggling to adapt to an era of extreme weather brought on by climate change."

Source: NYTimes, 07/23/2021

"PG&E Will Spend At Least $15 Billion Burying Power Lines"

"Pacific Gas & Electric plans to bury 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of its power lines in an effort to prevent its fraying grid from sparking wildfires when electrical equipment collides with millions of trees and other vegetation across drought-stricken California."

Source: AP, 07/23/2021

Biden’s Public Lands Nominee Advances With Key Senate Vote

"Tracy Stone-Manning, President Biden’s pick to be the top public lands manager, moved one step closer to becoming director of the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday as the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced her nomination solely with Democratic support."

Source: Washington Post, 07/23/2021

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