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In Jammu, volunteers are cleaning up River Tawi with little government help Over the years, its water quality has deteriorated due to the dumping of waste and discharge of sewage into it. Jan 12, 2021 · 07:30 pm Children and young people gather at Gujjar Nagar in Jammu to clean up the riverbank. | Tapasya Tofuss / The Third Pole “You can see how polluted it is here,” said 11-year-old Zakir, pointing at piles of litter along a stretch of the Tawi river in the city o...

Research and development, the things we do best here in america. part two is we say to the world, you can produce whatever we come up with in our science, whatever devices, you can have it, apply it, but whatever is manufactured from it, you have to manufacture right here in the united states of america. that will produce an estimated 1.2 million new manufacturing jobs, good jobs, union jobs, not just jobs that pay less, not jobs that are an afterthought, but real jobs. thats part i of it. we wa...

States according to the "new york times," it has an 80 times the heating trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere. joining me now, former energy and climate aid jake, great to have you with us. help explain this for our viewers. a lot of people may have a hard time wrapping their head around this. but how exactly is the epa trying to loosen this methane regulation, and why does it matter? >> sure. thanks, eamon. its great to be here. this is a major rollback on th...

Spend about a $1.5 trillion in making our federal government go green. its buy the products and here again its going to be all by american. were going to change our fleet of cars. were going to bring in new products. were going to change what happens with our buildings. and look what that does. that not only helps improve on the climate front, but it creates demand, demand to keep those factories open, demand to expand those factories and those jobs. and then theres one more part to it. and that...

To foot the bill for the research, its going to produce good american jobs right here. thats one part. one more part is a commitment to spend about a trillion and a half dollars in making our federal government go green. its by the products and here again, its going to be all buy american. we are going to change our fleet and change what happens with our buildings. look what that does. not only helps improve on the climate front, but creates demand. demand to keep those factories open. demand to...

Spend about a trillion and a half dollars in making our federal government go green. its by the products and here again, its going to be all buy american. we are going to change our fleet and change what happens with our buildings. look what that does. not only helps improve on the climate front, but creates demand. demand to keep those factories open. demand to expand those factories and those jobs. then one more part to it. that is, look, even if we manage to go entirely carbon neutral by 2030...

Commitment. the united states has been an indispensable leader on many fronts, including the climate front, including the energy innovation front. in fact, on the latter -- i want to keep going back to that, because the innovation agenda really is the jobs agenda. we play a leadership role in having over 20 countries commit to doubling down on innovation investments. the budget proposal of this administration, rather than doubling it, it proposes halving it. well, that just dulles our competitiv...

Are not going to solve the problem. >> what would it have solved? >> none of the recent mass shootings none of the guns were purchased from an unlicensed dealer. >> correct. thats what im speaking to the executive action you mentioned. >> nobodys saying we need to be going soft on criminals. what we do have to make sure is that we dont make it so easy for them to have access to deadly weapons. >> talking points stated earlier this week criminals and terrorists are not going to buy guns from deal...

Not as much ice as the previous atlas which is no longer there. thats the bad news. we do have some good news. in regardses to climate. you may remember prominent republican hank paulsen, maybe the guy behind the most unpopular bailout or not necessarily your go-to climate policy expert, but he is weighing in big-time, in a "new york times" op-ed saying we need a carbon tax, something environmentalists have push for. whats also good new the supreme court largely upheld the environmental protecti...

Thats the bad news. although we do have some good news in regards to climate. you may remember prominent republican former treasury secretary hank paulson, may be the guy behind the most unpopular bailout in maybe not necessarily your go-to climate policy expert with a sort of terrible brand of a name, but i digress. anyway, hes weighing in big-time. "the new york times" op-ped saying in no uncertain terms we need a carbon tax. also good news, supreme court today which largely upheld the environ...