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What Is FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund? What You Should Know, Why Costs Keep Rising and What We Can Do About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

After much public advocacy to reduce future impacts and invest in preparedness, in 2018 Congress passed critical legislation that established the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities “BRIC” grant program to allow the President to set aside 6 percent of the DRF specifically for pre-disaster, preparedness and resilience efforts.

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US 2024 Election: Could climate denier Ted Cruz be unseated?

A Greener Life

It has long been a given that Texas is a no-go area for Democrats, but in the 2018 Senate election, Ted Cruz, a potent climate denier, was nearly unseated by the progressive Democrat and former rockstar Beto ‘O Rourke. Allred who currently sits in the US House favours clean energy but also have a positive opinion of the fossil fuel industry.

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

Law Columbia

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. 33] However, this view directly contributes to the climate crisis because the use of fossil fuels is ubiquitous in the economy. 2] See also Janis P.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Its no surprise that this anti-science, pro-fossil fuel administration wants to go after the Endangerment Finding. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase. This blatant attempt to do an end-run around scientific evidence deserves to fail.

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Chief António Guterres said in a speech last week, accusing coal, oil and gas of being “the greatest threat to energy security today.”

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Is Water the Unmentioned Reason for Trump’s Interest in Greenland?

Circle of Blue

Greenlands political leaders already favor water export as an economic opportunity. But gaining access to one of the worlds largest reserves of clean water is a more logical response to warming temperatures than the presidents politically impulsive insistence that climate change is a hoax. And melting is fast increasing.

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Did California Policies Make the LA Fires Worse?

Legal Planet

Holding aid hostage to serve political goals slows the process down and threatens to rob ordinary folks of the help that they desperately need, from a system they paid into and now depend on for quick relief. The very idea is abhorrent, when families of all political stripes are in desperate straits. billion between 2023-25.