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is the Green New Deal? This star-studded essay collection think Klein, Bill McKibben, and the environmental justice giant Rev. William J. Barber clearly lays out the urgent whys, whats, and hows. It’s a super useful one-stop resource. And it puts the “radical” accusations to rest: Don’t most of us want a baked-in-green economy that’s infinitely more equitable than the one we have? These authors make the case that, ultimately, these big, ambitious policy proposals are just plain decency and good ol’ common sense.
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I’ll end with this influential gem by Princeton’s own Rob Nixon and his coinage of the term “slow violence.” Nixon argues that environmental devastation that plays out more slowly say, how oil and gas companies slowly and surely lay waste globally to ecosystems, and especially to low-income communities that inhabit them is brutal violence all the same, even if far less visible than oil spills, bombings, and other more
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For many awardees this will be a first-of-its-kind mobility project to be funded and launched in their community. Funding for CMO is made possible by California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health. The response to the mobility project voucher application window shows there is strong demand and need for this funding. Twenty-one communities received funds in its inaugural year, however there were a total of 33 applicants requesting as much as $1 million each.
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DELAWARE COUNTY, Ohio (WCMH) More than 7,700 AEP customers were without power in Delaware County Monday after a train hit some power lines.
According to the Delaware County post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a train clipped power lines near East Orange Road crossing between Route 23 and South Old State Road.
AEP had reported 4,319 customers just north of Lewis Center and 3,472 customers in the Crosswoods area were without power. It has since been restored.
OSHP said there were no injuries reported from the incident, which happened at approximately 9:30 p.m.
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