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CLIMATE STAKES OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE FIGHT: President
Joe Biden will introduce a $6 trillion budget today reiterating his interest in passing large new investments in clean energy and fighting climate change. But as we somehow are upon Memorial Day, it’s getting near crunch time for the administration to turn its priorities into law through its only real vehicle of doing it infrastructure legislation.
Biden yesterday said he is
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Used Car Exports Threaten Climate Goals
The U.S. ships hundreds of thousands of its oldest and dirtiest cars overseas to poorer countries each year
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Replacing gasoline cars with electric vehicles is a pillar of President Biden’s strategy for tackling climate change. But even if the administration sets a deadline to sunset sales of gas-powered passenger vehicles, the export of used cars abroad could stall the global reductions needed to stave off catastrophic warming.
The U.S. sends about 1 million used cars to poorer countries every year. It's part of a global car trade that threatens to slow emissions reductions, experts say.
Published: Monday, May 17, 2021
Colonial pipeline tanks, President Biden, Transportation Security Administration badge. Credits: Drew Angerer/Getty Images (Colonial pipeline tanks); T.J. Kirkpatrick-Pool/Getty Images (Biden); Joe Raedle/Getty Images (badge)
A cyberattack on the Colonial pipeline last week is raising numerous questions about whether the Biden administration and industry are protecting the nation s energy infrastructure. Drew Angerer/Getty Images (Colonial pipeline tanks); T.J. Kirkpatrick-Pool/Getty Images (Biden); Joe Raedle/Getty Images (badge)
For years, cybersecurity experts, intelligence officials and lawmakers have warned about the high-stakes threat of a ransomware attack on U.S. critical infrastructure.
But it wasn t until this month s ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline Co. that the real-world impact became tangible. The cyberattack by the DarkSide ransomware gang forced the Georgia-based company to shut down its entire 5,500-mile pipeline system,