On Thin Ice
New Verse News
The poets says doomsday: climate heat is serious business, coming sooner than you think.
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Workers Need New Heat Protections Immediately
Jacobin
The Biden administration has proposed a desperately needed new heat standard to protect workers from scorching temperatures. Expect business groups to oppose it.
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A Just Transition Guaranteed by International Law Is Within Reach – Here’s How
Z
Trade-offs between the human right to work and the human right to a healthy environment need to be avoided when applying "just transition" logic.
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Beat the Heat: How Workers Are Winning Fans, AC, and Even Heat Pay
Labor Notes
Workers are using creative tactics to win protections against excessive heat in the workplace.
Cooling California Could Heat Up Europe
The Guardian
Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening that may cool one region in the short term but have negative impact elsewhere
Biden’s Border Restrictions Are Stranding Climate Migrants in Extreme Heat
Grist
Many people seeking asylum are fleeing climate disasters. Biden's latest border move puts them even more at risk.
What Did We Know – and When Did We Know It?
TomDispatch
This capacity to predict the future is beginning to feel a bit déjà-vu-ish. It’s not too hard to foresee the approaching catastrophe in Gaza. In our presidential election, we are facing the potential elevation of a genuine instrument of fascism.
If Not in New York, Then Where?
The New York Times
Governor Kathy Hochul's indefinite pause of a proposed congestion pricing program for lower Manhattan is “a generational setback for climate policy in the United States."
The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution.
The New York Times
A rarely used technique to upgrade old power lines could play a big role in fixing one of the largest obstacles facing clean energy, two reports found.
Friday Nite Videos | May 24, 2024
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Alito's Freak Flags / Haley Endorses Trump. 'We Are Cowardly' / Singing the Truth. The One Place You Can’t Say Trump Is a Criminal Defendant. The Debate Over the Anthropocene, Explained. Disneyland Workers Dispel the Fairytale.
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