Environmental News For The Week Ending 16January 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Summary:
New US Covid infections for the week ending January 16th were 8.5% below those of the week ending January 9th, so it appears that the incidence of new cases mat have peaked and is turning down, at least for the time being. One caveat to that, though, is that we don t know how many of the prior week s cases were from reports that had been delayed over the holidays. For a check on that, we can compare new cases from the week ending January 16th to those from the week ending December 19th, two weeks which sh
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January 19, 2021 - 7:57am
By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson
The American Legislative Exchange Council s 2020 Legislator of the Year, Pennsylvania state Sen. Cris Dush (R), joined with 94 other state legislators on Jan. 5 to call on Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote for Joe Biden on Jan. 6.
The letter, which questioned the validity of hundreds of thousands of ballots, asked Pence to postpone certification of the presidential election results for ten days so that state legislatures could meet, investigate, and as a body vote on certification or decertification of the election.
Sen. Dush served three terms in the Pennsylvania House before winning a seat in the state Senate in November.
In Kansas and Missouri, critics say the “energy choice” legislation is in direct conflict with cities’ commitments to transition from fossil fuels.
Kansas and Missouri may become the next states to block cities from banning natural gas, with hearings on legislation in both states expected soon.
Although natural gas bans at this point are more of a coastal phenomenon, many Midwestern cities have adopted climate goals that will be difficult to achieve with continued reliance on natural gas. More than two dozen Missouri cities, including Kansas City and St. Louis, have established clean energy goals, along with Lawrence, Kansas. A coalition of Kansas City suburbs recently adopted a climate plan committing to providing city services using only clean energy by 2030, and for all community energy use to be sourced from renewables by 2035.
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