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March 4, 2021

Reducing Risk, Avoiding Disaster – Creating Grid 2.0

The Resilience Media Project at Earth Institute of Columbia University invites journalists to join energy experts at 11:00 a.m. ET for a quick tutorial on electric grids, discuss why they are failing with some regularity and dive into how to improve energy reliability and security. Includes story ideas and Q&A.

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"RCMP Patrol Wet’suwet’en Territory Despite UN Calls For Withdrawal"

"One year after the RCMP’s highly publicized militarized raids on land defender camps, a continuous police presence is affecting the lives of Wet’suwet’en people who say intimidation and nuisance tactics are being used to suppress opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline"

Source: The Narwhal, 02/25/2021

"Corporate Climate Disclosures to Get Aggressive Scrutiny by SEC"

"The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is boosting scrutiny of how well companies disclose risks that climate change poses to their businesses, one of its first moves to confront an issue that’s key to the Biden administration’s policy goals."

Source: Brunswick News, 02/25/2021

"Postal Service Stirs Ire by Buying Gasoline Trucks and a Few EVs"

"The U.S. Postal Service currently plans for only 10% of its new truck fleet to be electric, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Wednesday, angering environmentalists who say the move flies in the face of a White House executive order to electrify the government’s vehicles."

Source: Bloomberg, 02/25/2021

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