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The Senate just passed one of the biggest bills to fight climate change, ever (Vox)
Congress surpassed its biggest roadblock to finally passing historic climate legislation. After nearly 18 months of haggling and 15-straight hours of weekend votes, Senate Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act on a strict party-line vote on Sunday.
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The Inflation Reduction Act Is The Most Important Climate Action In U.S. History (Forbes)
The new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), released in the United States Senate last week, is a grand bargain between emissions reduction and economic growth – and new Energy Innovation modeling shows it will be the most significant climate action legislation in U.S. history.
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Greek air-conditioning limits test country’s resolve to support Ukraine (The Washington Post)
ATHENS — Outside the trim, whitewashed building that serves as the headquarters of Greece’s public fish markets, the harsh Mediterranean sun was baking the port. Inside, the head of the country’s fish markets, a 64-year-old lifelong civil servant named Vassilis Katsiotis was trying to figure out how to use less air conditioning.
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Parts of Great Barrier Reef See Most Extensive Coral Cover In 36 Years (YaleEnvironment360)
In the northern and central stretches of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists have recorded the most extensive coral cover seen in 36 years of study, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).
Researchers tracked hard coral across 87 reefs along the coast of Queensland from August 2021 to May 2022, finding that coral cover reached 36 percent in the northern third of the reef and 33 percent in the central third, up from 27 percent and 26 percent, respectively, the prior year.
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Judge rejects massive BLM coal mining proposal in Montana, Wyoming (Daily Montanan)
A federal judge in Montana has halted two large coal mining projects in Wyoming and Montana for the second time after he ruled the Bureau of Land Management has continued to disregard environmental impacts and ignored presenting Congressionally required alternatives.
The ruling could affect access to as many as 6 billion tons of coal that would be mined for a period of as many as 20 years.
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Mexican Farmers and Scientists Share a Mission: Saving a Wetland (Undark)
On the southern edge of Mexico City, on a patch of land surrounded by water, a farmer and a scientist recently inspected rows of small cubes of mud that had sprouted seedlings. They were crouching on a chinampa, an island that appears to float in Lake Xochimilco, part of a complex ecosystem where the Aztec Empire once flourished.
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New law creates $45M electric school bus program (New Jersey Monitor)
New Jersey will spend up to $45 million over the next three years to install electric school buses across the state.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Thursday authorizing the state Department of Environmental Protection to buy buses and charging infrastructure and plot a course for districts to electrify their fleets.
The department will give $15 million in grants annually over three years to at least 18 school districts or bus contractors for the electric buses, with half or more of those grants going to communities that are low-income, urban, or overburdened by pollution. New Jersey has about 600 school districts.
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How the New Climate Bill Would Reduce Emissions (The New York Times)
A major climate and energy package announced last week in a deal by Senate Democrats would put the United States much closer to its goal of cutting global warming pollution in half by 2030, several new independent analyses have concluded.
The bill contains $369 billion in funding for clean energy and electric vehicle tax breaks, domestic manufacturing of batteries and solar panels, and pollution reduction. It is the single most important step the US has ever taken to combat the climate crisis. And arguably, it’s one of the single biggest investments ever made on climate in the world.
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