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Trump EPA finalizes rollback making it harder to enact new public health rules

Wed, 2020-12-09 18:37 — mike kraft

Trump EPA finalizes rollback making it harder to enact new public health rules The Trump administration is finalizing a rule Wednesday making it harder to enact public health protections, by changing the way the Environmental Protection Agency calculates the costs and benefits of new limits on air pollution. Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis Washington Post

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G20 leaders vow to supply vaccine to needy countries, despite funding shortfall

Mon, 2020-11-23 14:28 — mike kraft

G20 leaders vow to supply vaccine to needy countries, despite funding shortfall Leaders approve final declaration with no objection from Donald Trump to climate language. POLITICO

The world’s 20 most powerful economies pledged Sunday to lead a global battle against the coronavirus health and economic crisis — even as their own virtual gathering revealed the risks of national competition for the quickest access to vaccines and other therapeutics.

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Trump to put climate change denier in charge of key U.S. report

Tue, 2020-11-10 20:57 — mike kraft

Trump to put climate change denier in charge of key U.S. report Despite election loss, White House tries to influence quadrennial assessment Science | AAAS

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STUDY:Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis

Tue, 2020-11-10 12:00 — mike kraft

Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis Assessing whether long-term exposure to air pollution increases the severity of COVID-19 health outcomes, including death, is an important public health objective. Limitations in COVID-19 data availability and quality remain obstacles to conducting conclusive studies on this topic. At present, publicly available COVID-19 outcome data for representative populations are available only as area-level counts. Therefore, studies of long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 outcomes using these data must use an ecological regression analysis, which precludes controlling for individual-level COVID-19 risk factors.

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As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science

Wed, 2020-10-28 19:50 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted facts about climate change and imposed stricter controls on communications at the agency.

The moves threaten to stifle a major source of objective United States government information about climate change that underpins federal rules on greenhouse gas emissions and offer an indication of the direction the agency will take if President Trump wins re-election.

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Study on air pollution increasing the likelihood of death from covid-19

Tue, 2020-10-27 19:58 — mike kraft

Regional and global contributions of air pollution to risk of death from COVID-19 AbstractAims. The risk of mortality from the coronavirus disease that emerged in 2019 (COVID-19) is increased by comorbidity from cardiovascular and pulmonary OUP Academic

The risk of mortality from the coronavirus disease that emerged in 2019 (COVID-19) is increased by comorbidity from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Air pollution also causes excess mortality from these conditions.

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'It's about saving ourselves': senator pushes plan to conserve 30% of US by 2030

Fri, 2020-10-23 14:21 — mike kraft

'It's about saving ourselves': senator pushes plan to conserve 30% of US by 2030 Tom Udall’s ‘30 by 30’ proposal seeks to align US with international goals to protect and preserve global ecosystems Hannah Chinn the Guardian

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STUDY: Fear of more coronavirus-like pandemics as land rights 'under siege'

Wed, 2020-09-16 20:36 — mike kraft

Fear of more coronavirus-like pandemics as land rights 'under siege' Governments' failure to recognise the land rights of indigenous communities and their role in protecting biodiversity could lead to more coronavirus-like pandemics, researchers said on Tuesday. Nita Bhalla U.S.

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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

Wed, 2020-09-16 20:08 — mike kraft

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America for centuries. ProPublica

According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.

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