New York Times gift articles

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15045668

John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy adviser, said agencies were racing to deliver money from the 2022 climate law before Donald Trump arrives.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18401564

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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment is considering relocating the E.P.A. out of Washington and other drastic changes.

Donald J. Trump won votes from Arab Americans and conservative pro-Israel Jews. Someone is likely to be disappointed

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IMHO, probably not; musk seems interested in his own finances, and on pitting people against minorities so that they don't see him stealing from them.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15001941

Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering for annual climate negotiations. Here’s what they’re all about and what Donald Trump’s victory means for the meeting.

I'll note that these negotiations require consensus to act, which means that much of what we would need (eg: binding cuts to extraction and use of fossil fuels) are basically not attainable through them.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14987814

A new report, urging rich nations to give more climate aid to poorer ones, comes as Donald Trump’s election throws global climate talks into disarray.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14963665

Democrats had attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy blueprint for reshaping the federal government. Several of its authors served in his administration.

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Much of the plan’s nearly 900 pages detail extreme executive-branch overhauls. Among many recommendations, Project 2025 lays out plans for criminalizing pornography, disbanding the Commerce and Education departments, rejecting the idea of abortion as health care and shredding climate protections.

This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history.

• Fluoride is a mineral that occurs naturally in water, although it can also be a byproduct of industry. Adding fluoride to public water systems began as an experiment in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1945, after a dentist at the National Institutes of Health theorized that it might prevent cavities in teeth. Over the next 11 years, tooth decay in Grand Rapids dropped by 60 percent.
• a president could exert pressure on the F.D.A. to reverse its approval for a particular vaccine. Mr. Trump could also appoint judges predisposed to limiting the power of federal agencies, including the F.D.A.
• If Congress were to repeal the Affordable Care Act, what would come next? When Mr. Trump was asked during his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris whether he had a replacement plan for the law, he said he had the “concepts of a plan.”

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14963780

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