Editorial Roundup: Michigan
Detroit News. May 8, 2021.
Editorial: Whitmer must avert Line 5 face-off with Canada
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is recklessly placing Michigan at the center of an international trade showdown with her order that the Line 5 petroleum pipeline must cease operations by Wednesday.
The governor revoked Enbridge Inc.’s 67-year-old right-of-way across the Straits of Mackinac last November, short-circuiting an existing and sensible agreement that would replace the pipeline with one encased in a concrete tunnel deep below the lakebed.
Canada wasn’t pleased, to say the least.
Line 5 is vital to its robust energy economy, transporting 540,000 barrels per day of petroleum products from the rich Alberta oil patch to the United States. Included is much of the propane used as heating fuel in Michigan. It also provides resources to Michigan’s manufacturing base.
Breakthrough Leader: Jay Pinckney
Posted on: May 11, 2021; Updated on: May 11, 2021
Growing up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Jay Pinckney spent a lot of time in the outdoors, hunting and fishing with his father. By the time he was in the eighth grade he knew he wanted to be a marine biologist, part of the generation fascinated by Jacques Cousteau’s undersea adventures.
But his ties to the sea go back even further; he is the 13
th generation of Pinckneys to grow up in South Carolina. The first Pinckney to settle in the Carolinas was a pirate, arriving in 1692.
Pinckney, a biological sciences professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and
Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica
Pamela Pearson, director of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, a former US diplomat (1987-2006) and climate, health and environment negotiator.
In 2015, governments from across the world committed to the Paris Agreement and its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C or 2C. Yet, the emissions pledges that those governments have since proposed put the world on course for as much as 3C of warming.
Such a mismatch between ambition and action could have huge ramifications for the world, not least for global sea level rise, which is already accelerating.
Delondrae Carter graduated this May with a degree in astrophysics from ASUâs School of Earth and Space Exploration.Â
His interest in the universe began in fourth grade when he worked on a project demonstrating the vast scale of the solar system. From there, he was inspired to learn as much as he could about astronomy and astrophysics.Â
âThat first project helped me discover that the world was a much bigger place than I initially thought,â Carter said.Â
Carter chose ASU for his undergraduate studies and was awarded a New American University Scholarship Presidentâs Award. That was soon followed by an Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship and a Goldwater Scholarship, which is one of the most prestigious awards for STEM majors.