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Climate & Energy Forum — 2021 Federal Climate Legislation Discussion Series
Learn about climate action in the 2021 Legislative Session from:
Derek Kilmer, U.S. Representative, 6th District
Maria Cantwell, U.S. Senator, Washington State (invited)
We hold General Meetings the first Sunday of the month, 3-5 pm, where we determine our activities and campaigns.
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In Solidarity with All Our Relations
We are awaiting their Report and Recommendations
Climate Action and Just Transitions / Bringing It All Together Presentations The final WA Climate Assembly Learning Session started with three breakout rooms during the first part of the three-hour Zoom meeting, Saturday, February 6, 2021. Of the ten presenters in this first section, only three were shown on the YouTube video. The first presenter …
Continue reading “7th and Last Learning Session for the WA State Climate Assembly”
Draft Proposals for Public Comment
available from the Washington Climate Assembly
PBS News Hour
Solutions
To Meet Ambitious Emissions Goals, Large Food Companies Are Looking to Lock Carbon in Soil
— Smithsonian Magazine
The key to beating fossil fuel corps? Global collaboration
Litigants need to model the strategy that brought down Big Tobacco: Share everything.
— Grist
Biden sets an ambitious goal to protect 30 percent of US lands and waters
— Popular Science
“A new partnership between Tazo Tea and the nonprofit American Forests is tackling the lack of tree cover in low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color.”
— Alexandria Herr, at Grist
The Cornucopia Institute
Through research and investigations on agriculture and food issues, provides needed information to family farmers, consumers and other stakeholders in the good food movement and to the media.
Regional Actions
New Rules for Fossil Fuels: Protecting WA Communities
Climate Justice is Protecting Community Health
Tuesday, Mar. 9
Centering Frontline Communities
Tuesday, Mar. 23
Rep. Mike Simpson puts forward a groundbreaking proposal for the LSRDs
Rep. Kilmer supports plan that asks
four NW Governors to decide on LSRDs breaching
Support Washington STRONG
Listen as Representatives Sharon Shewmake, Emily Wicks, and David Hackney talk about why they cosponsored this bill
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OF WASHINGTON
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS EFFECTS
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Environmental Justice talks being given
at Western Washington University
Four Mondays at Noon — Feb. 28 – Mar. 21
Creating a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle pilot sales and use tax exemption program.
Background on Renewable Hydrogen
Please contact your state legislators
National Actions
National Environmental
Scorecard
Call on the Biden Administration to Save America’s Largest Wild Forest
— NRDC
Help Save America’s Birds
Please send your message before the March 1 comment deadline. — NRDC
The North Face, Lululemon and Columbia
must go coal free
Calendar Jam: Tell Bank CEOs to Defund Line 3
Local/Regional News
EPA awards 3 companies $220M for cleanup of abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation
— KUTV Salt Lake City
A dam good example of collaboration on California water issues
The Klamath Dam removals are a test case for stakeholders working together to better manage water in the West.
— Grist
Thursday, March 25 | 5 — 5:45 pm
National/International News
Maersk will launch the first-ever carbon neutral container ship by 2023
“If you don’t do this, 10 years from now we risk becoming irrelevant,” Morten Bo Christiansen, vice president and head of decarbonization at Maersk, told Bloomberg. “Our customers need us to do this.”
–CNN Business
What share of global CO2 emissions come from aviation?
“Flying is a highly controversial topic in climate debates. There are a few reasons for this.”
— Our World in Data
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz triples its electric car sales as CEO predicts a ‘transformative’ decade
— CNBC
Visualizing Territorial Claims in Antarctica
Celebrating Black History Month
Meet the Black leaders in the Biden-Harris Administration tackling climate and environmental justice.
4 questions about weather-driven power outages, answered
— PBS News Hour
A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies.
Fossil Fuel Shock Doctrine:
Naomi Klein on Deadly Deregulation & Why Texas Needs the Green New Deal
— DemocracyNow! interview
Spending more than 20 minutes in a car exposes drivers and passengers to scary-high levels of carcinogenic chemicals used in vehicle manufacturing like benzene and formaldehyde
— ScienceDirect
Russian Gas Tanker Shows Arctic Is Navigable Year-Round Now
Every day, the Arctic slips further into an unstable state.
— Gizmodo
40 greenest countries in the world
The American Gas Association, a trade group funded by customers’ utility bills, has helped orchestrate state laws that block towns and cities from encouraging electric appliances in buildings.
— NPR
How Much Solar Energy is Consumed Per Capita? (1965-2019)
Last week’s winter storm in Texas was responsible for the emission of 3.5 million pounds of excess pollutants
— Grist
How Global Health and Wealth Has Changed Over Two Centuries
Climate in Politics
The United Nations Security Council declined on Tuesday to recognize climate change as a threat to global security
— Grist
Nan Bray is an oceanographer and climate scientist who has farmed superfine merinos near Oatlands, Tasmania since 2000
Note to Yarns from the Farm readers: This is a series of articles on climate change that I’ve written for our local monthly newsletter, the
Southern Midlands Regional News.
Cheers, Nan
