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When best-selling author Catherine Bush was looking for inspiration for her latest novel – a gripping eco-thriller about climate change – someone suggested that she visit Fogo Island, the largest offshore island of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Canada. This miniature world of ice, sea-cliff paths, friendly people and colourful houses sparked Bush’s imagination and became a major influence in “A lot of people still prefer not to think about the climate crisis,” she begins. “It’s v...

Dec 13, 2020 Policymakers and activists are watching Pennsylvania again, but this time it’s not about our votes. It’s about our CO2 emissions and whether we’re going to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). According to the Commonwealth’s Environmental Quality Board, Pennsylvania’s electricity generating units (EGUs) rank 4th highest among CO2 emitting EGUs in the country. So, it’s not surprising that a proposal to join a regional effort to control th...

Immigration reform where we have limits and take people out of the shadows and have. >> gentlemen, we have got to wrap here. >> what he we need first is enforcement system that works. if we do amnesty. >> we have got to wrap. >> amnesty before do you that create this flood of new illegal immigration. we were told for the last two years or so illegal immigration was over. >> all right. we have got to wrap. thank you, guys. >> thank you, panel. >> thank you. >> and, 20 years ago a double murder in...