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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks to employees at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 27, 2021. (State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain) Speaking from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Philip Merrill Center, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken delivered an address to usher in President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, which will begin this week on Earth Day. Secretary Blinken laid out the stakes of inaction on climate—from sea level rise to more severe wildfires to other extreme weather events—and detailed a range of effo...

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Engineers working on site at transmission system infrastructure project (yuttana Contributor Studio/ Shutterstock) Released on March 31, the Biden-Harris administration’s massive infrastructure plan, called the American Jobs Plan, is hugely ambitious. Biden accordingly described it as a “once-in-a-generation investment.” The proposal does not just look to fix the US’ crumbling infrastructure—currently ranked 13th in the world—it aims to transform the US economy, simultaneously addressing climate change, employment, and historic inequities. Its strength is that it recognizes the c...

February18: Years Ago… ‘Years Ago’ is a compilation of newsy tidbits as published in the Crawford County Independent & Kickapoo Scout on this week ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or sixty years ago. TEN YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 17, 2011 – Nearly 30 people enjoyed the inaugural breakfast at the Two Bucks Bar and Grill on Main Street in Gays Mills. Owners, Kim Kerr, Karen Easton and Mark Curnow are using the site that was the former Red Apple Inn. The new menu will feature pies, which were a staple of the popular former restaurant… The senior citizens meal site at TaZee’...

Rapid response: SPP/ERCOT winter freeze energy crisis EnergySource by Global Energy Center Frozen fountain with icicles at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas (charzalan/Shutterstock) The winter storm that swept the southern and southwestern United States and parts of Mexico has left millions without access to electricity, heat, and water in the midst of a pandemic. Nearly all energy sources in the mix—from fossil fuels to wind turbines to nuclear power plants—have taken a hit in the last few days. Although rolling blackouts imposed by the ...