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Policymakers and organizations with climate action and social equity goals must consider a multi-faceted approach to ensuring former fossil fuel workers are treated fairly, according to a new report by Resources for the Future and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
U.S. investment in rural communities, where the majority of energy production takes place, has steadily declined over the past 30 years, Heidi Binko, executive director and co-founder of the Just Transition Fund, said during a Wednesday panel discussion based on the report s findings. This has made many rural communities dependent on fossil fuel income, and economic recovery cannot happen unless physical and social infrastructure in these communities are upgraded, Binko said.
National Academies: Zero-carbon goal on ‘edge of feasibility’ Source: By Peter Behr, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
A new report from a top panel of government advisers calls for imposing a $40-per-ton federal tax on carbon emissions to help the United States reach its net-zero goals. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration);Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr (drafting sketch); jwigley/Pixabay (pump jack); Peretz Partensky/Flickr (nuclear); MaxPixel (turbines)
A comprehensive road map for achieving a carbon-free economy by midcentury, issued yesterday by the National Academies, calls on the United States to invest $2 trillion over the next decade to jump-start monumental transitions in energy, innovation and manufacturing.
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MSU College of Letters & Science to celebrate faculty authors
January 18, 2021
From MSU News Service
BOZEMAN The Montana State University College of Letters and Science will celebrate faculty authors who have published new books at a livestreamed virtual event to be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20.
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The virtual reception will begin with an interview with Sara Rushing, associate professor in the Department of Political Science conducted by Yves Idzerda, dean of the College of Letters and Science. They will discuss Rushing’s new book, “The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity,” which was published by Oxford University Press. Following the interview, Rushing will take questions from the audience.