Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 May 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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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January high; US Covid deaths are now at the lowest rate since since the second week of July.
AFT
Reopening schools has been one of the most contested issues of the COVID-19 era, and few have been happy with the pace – parent, teacher or student. One person who thought New York City has tackled it correctly is Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Unlike some national labor figures, Weingarten remains influential among local education unions in New York, where she headed the United Federation of Teachers from 1998 to 2009.
7. John Samuelsen
International President, Transport Workers Union
As international president of the Transport Workers Union, John Samuelsen represents 150,000 transit workers, including 41,000 at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, his former employer whose tracks stretch from New York City to Poughkeepsie and Montauk. After a $3.9 billion bailout in March 2020, the MTA is receiving another $6 billion in aid via the American Rescue Plan, sidestepping once again the looming jobs catastrophe caused by the pandem
Author of the article: Anthony Furey
Publishing date: May 08, 2021 • 49 minutes ago • 4 minute read • U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attends a ribbon cutting and the official re-opening of Junior’s restaurant in Times Square which had been closed during the pandemic, on Thursday, May 6, 2021 in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt /Getty Images
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A friend of mine got to the point he’d just had enough of Ontario. The other week he and his wife packed up the car and drove with the kids to the United States. They were able to get across because one of them is a dual national.
Author of the article: Anthony Furey
Publishing date: May 08, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 4 minute read • U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attends a ribbon cutting and the official re-opening of Junior’s restaurant in Times Square which had been closed during the pandemic, on Thursday, May 6, 2021 in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt /Getty Images
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A friend of mine got to the point he’d just had enough of Ontario. The other week he and his wife packed up the car and drove with the kids to the United States. They were able to get across because one of them is a dual national.
US Senate committee leaders have drafted a compromise US$110 billion measure for basic and advanced technology research and science over five years, and the creation of a White House chief manufacturing officer in the face of rising competitive pressure from China, according to a copy of the 131-page draft legislation seen on Friday by reporters.
The revised draft bill by US Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell and the committee’s top Republican US Senator Roger Wicker is set to be debated by the committee on Wednesday.
The bipartisan “Endless Frontier” bill would authorize most of the money, US$95 billion, over five years