Sr. Fellow of Just Solutions, https://justsolutionscollective.org / climate equity and energy justice: transformative policy and regs + strategy / West Harlem, NYC / opinions and perspectives here my own.
Lew Daly
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Maria caused an estimated 4645 "excess deaths"
largely due medical disruptions in part caused by the blackout, and this was not just a climate disaster but also a man-made disaster because climate-vulnerable places need fewer power lines to fix...
and more distributed energy like rooftop solar and battery storage. But Trump in typically corrupt, reactionary, or just thoughtless fashion has now pulled the plug on $1 billion in congressionally authorized energy resilience funding for PR, including for backup power systems for hospitals.
Most US viewers were likely confused by the power lines act and accompanying song, "El Apagón," in Bad Bunny's halftime show, but not Puerto Rican or Puerto Rican-American viewers or their relatives who were subjected to Hurricane Maria's power blackout aftermath in 2017, the worst in US history.
The looming destruction of Chi'chil Bildagoteel for a fortune in copper ore must be stopped:
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Western Apaches' irreplaceably sacred Chi'chil Bildagoteel in SE Arizona, slated for federally-legislated destruction by foreign mining behemoths Rio Tinto and BHP,
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is "the worst mining project I have ever encountered," says geologist Steven Emerman:
Professor Beverly Moran stresses that many aspects of the Trump budget bill, including even the $1,000 baby bonds, will make the racial wealth gap grow. This makes sense because the median racial wealth gap...
