Page 4 - Climate Change Programs News Today

Further two week recess. There is more on this glimmer of bipartisan progress just ahead. By then administration also putting its weight behind fighting a surge of Violent Crimes in the country. Homicides up 24 , gonna salts up 22 over the same period last year, late today the president and Attorney General outlined a new anti crime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and to violence Intervention Programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance ...

Further two week recess. There is more on this glimmer of bipartisan progress just ahead. By then administration also putting its weight behind fighting a surge of Violent Crimes in the country. Homicides up 24 , gonna salts up 22 over the same period last year, late today the president and Attorney General outlined a new anti crime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and to violence Intervention Programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance ...

The president and his party in Congress need to carefully pick the programs they are willing to fight for as 2021 draws to a close

Whether hed support this reconciliation effort thats got $500 billion for climate change programs. now, both the white house and democratic leaders are betting that this was mostly theatrics, and he is going to end up supporting the bill. he says, "i want greater clarity. i want to know what it costs." everybody is waiting for the cbo score, so that was going to happen anyway. the bill isnt passing the senate until around thanksgiving or maybe later. joe manchin seemed to decide that his own nee...

Trillion dollars over ten years, it includes a bunch of revisions on the climate and medicare, and childcare, but it leaves out some of the most popular proposals that democrats have been championing for years. before we do all that, it is probably important to take a step back exempt ourselves from the relentless presentism of the new cycle, and this is how we got to this point, where the democrats have slashed this proposed 3.5 trillion dollar agenda and a half. but also where they are conside...

Hes the guy at theeel elected . you wont have to worry whats going on in the white house anymore. thats not how things have played out. >> basic competence is what he told and and say thats not what hes delivered. the social safety net program that biden wants which addresses everything from climate change to child care, most democrats in the poll would rather go big rather than scaled back. look at the divide within the party. 84% of liberal democrats want to see all these programs, safety net ...

Is the best we could get in this moment. but long term we have to do something about this. we shouldnt be having to even raise the debt ceiling every year or so. this is something that should be taken care of permanently. and that is something that youll see myself and others pushing to do. for the time being it would appear this is the best we can get from our friends on the other side of the aisle but it is really shameful republicans would play these kinds of games. >> this deal does give dem...

Billionaires and corporations are paying their fair share and were enforcing the tax laws. >> phil, whats your best read as of air time tonight on where this thing stands? >> well, brian, its very much of a hot potato here in washington tonight. but what we know is that this bipartisan group has come up with the frame work in negotiation with the white house. sit a far smaller and less ambitious frame work than the one the biden administration proposed and does not achieve all of the policy goal...

>> well, brian, it is very much a hot potato here in washington tonight. will we know is that this bipartisan group has come up with a framework in negotiation with the white house. it is a far smaller and less ambitious framework than the one that the biden administration proposed and does not achieve all the policy goals that many democrats are hoping for, including these climate change programs. including other care and social programs that have been at the heart of what progressive have been...

Powering Resilient Cities The future of our energy system is diversified, distributed, and clean. Cities are epicenters of energy consumption, and can be vulnerable to large scale blackouts resulting from severe weather events and natural disasters, human error, or cyber-attacks. But decentralizing the grid through distributed microgrids, regions can fortify themselves to prevent widespread power failures. And by leveraging underutilized urban spaces, cities can facilitate the growth of distrib...