Biden has now signed about 45 executive orders, memorandums or proclamations enacting or at least initiating major policy shifts on a wide array of issues, including the coronavirus pandemic, racial justice, immigration, climate change and transgender rights.
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If India were to set up every coal-powered plant it has planned, its power generation capacity would go from 200GW in 2018 to 300GW by 2030. The cost of this expansion, however, would be 8.4 lakh lives.
A study by researchers from the University of Maryland, Urban Emissions Info, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Texas Tech University, published by the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, has found that 78,000 deaths in India were already attributable to coal plants in 2018, the base year for the study. If all coal plants in the pipeline were set up, deaths linked to them would go up to 1,12,000 annually. And the lifetime impact of these new plants is estimated to be 8,44,000 premature deaths.
Joe Biden makes swift policy changes on COVID-19 and racial justice, but major speed bumps lie ahead Biden has now signed about 45 executive orders, memorandums or proclamations enacting or at least initiating major policy shifts on a wide array of issues US president Joe Biden signing executive orders at the White House. AP
Washington: In the weeks before taking office, President Joe Biden and his aides spent time digging into books about Franklin D Roosevelt, both biographies and volumes exploring his iconic first 100 days, on the theory that no president since then has taken office with the country in a crisis quite so grave.
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Although President Joe Biden’s actions on climate change have stirred anxieties about job loss in energy-producing states like Pennsylvania, a new report predicts that plans like Biden’s could create roughly a quarter-million jobs annually in the Commonwealth. And within hours after the report s release, local officials announced a small but symbolic down payment on green energy investment.
The 243,000 clean-energy jobs that could be created each year over the next decade in Pennsylvania are jobs across the board,” said Robert Pollin, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the study’s authors.
UMass Amherst set to offer 1,500 COVID vaccinations next week when Massachusetts residents 75 and older become eligible
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
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A Western Massachusetts vaccination site is preparing to offer well over a thousand doses next week.
University of Massachusetts Amherst received word from state health officials that their weekly allotment of COVID vaccine doses was increased by 800. With the additional allotment, the vaccination clinic, run by the university’s Public Health Promotion Center, plans to administer 1,500 next week.