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Submitted by BlueNC on Fri, 01/01/2021 - 08:40 UNMARRIED LGBTQ PEOPLE CAN NOW FILE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS: LGBTQ people in North Carolina can no longer be prevented from getting domestic violence protective orders, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. North Carolina had been the only state in the country to withhold emergency protections from people seeking protection from abuse by a same-sex partner, The News & Observer reported in 2019. That kind of protection is offered to...

3) is a colorless but not odorless gas. When ignited, ozone gives off a chlorine-bleach-like odor. So, obviously, based on this, there is a point at which ozone ignites, and it is when this ignition point is reached that the chlorine-bleachish smell from the ozone is produced and released. It is in this sense that temperature has a direct influence on ozone when the change in is such that it becomes high enough to cause a change in the way ozone in this particular instance behaves. In the strat...

Scientific American The Biden Administration Must Double Down on Science It’s absolutely necessary if we’re going to weather the inevitable crises we’ll continue to face Advertisement As President-elect Biden takes office, he will assume leadership of the U.S. government’s scientific enterprise that was once the envy of the world, but which has been battered and marginalized for the past four years. The Trump administration steadfastly refused to follow the lead of scientific experts du...

Strengthening The Financial System To Meet The Challenge Of Climate Change, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard At "The Financial System & Climate Change: A Regulatory Imperative" Hosted By The Center For American Progress, Washington, D.C. Date 18/12/2020 I want to thank the Center for American Progress for inviting me to join you in discussing climate change and the U.S. financial system.1 Let me start by noting these are my own views and do not necessarily reflect those of the Feder...

December 10, 2020 Four years of science denial and regulatory backtracking have amplified the urgency to confront climate change. Absent national leadership, cities and communities have once again taken the lead in promoting nimble approaches to sustainability, renewable energy and environmental progress. For this event we will talk about some of the innovative ideas and promising solutions for energy and the environment that Next City has reported on this year. The best of these approaches cen...

Revamping Federal Climate Science December 15, 2020, 5:00 am Getty/Liu Shiping/Xinhua Sam Hananel Ari Drennen Introduction and summary The United States has been the global leader in climate science for decades. Unfortunately, progress has slowed—and in some cases, even moved backward—over the past four years, with the Trump administration dismantling core elements of the federal climate science apparatus. As the country and the planet head toward an increasingly unstable climate, the U...

Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST Four years of science denial and regulatory backtracking have amplified the urgency to confront climate change. Absent national leadership, cities and communities have once again taken the lead in promoting nimble approaches to sustainability, renewable energy and environmental progress. For this event we will talk about some of the innovative ideas and promising solutions for energy and the environment that Next City has reported on this year. Th...

President Donald Trump’s administration is focused on promoting climate denial even as it counts down the president’s final days. The Trump team is preparing to appoint a climate denier to head development of the National Climate Assessment for the next two months, a key step that involves contracting scientists to write it, according to advisers close to the White House. Those contracts could be structured to keep researchers who reject climate science in place after President-elect Joe Bi...