Hot Off the Wire — 1/22/2021

Medical community scrambles to understand COVID-19 ‘long haulers’

At-home COVID test availability is growing. Can it help turn the tide?

Global COVID-19 death toll tops 2 million

This, amid an uneven vaccine roll-out.

Expanded vaccine rollout in U.S. spawns a new set of problems

5 reasons to wear a mask even after you’re vaccinated

2020 in Review:
Stories on Climate Change, COVID-19 budgets, and the election

50 countries vow to protect 30 percent of land and sea by 2030

Top U.S. officials were notably absent, as were the leaders of Russia, India and Brazil.
— PBS News Hour

Unlock Your Cycling Fitness Goals by Fixing Up Your Bike

Don’t blow your savings on a new bicycle. Instead, learn how to better maintain the one you’ve already got and upgrade some key components along the way.
— Wired

What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?
— Wired/Grist

Standing between the northern spotted owl and extinction

We need to build a #CleanAndJust transportation system in #WA that works for everyone

Building Climate Resilience During COVID-19 Recovery

January 27 Virtual Panel Line-up Announced

Support the Voting Rights Restoration Bill
(HB 1078 and SB 5086)

Climate-friendly buildings are within reach

Supporting the Healthy Homes and Clean Buildings bill for its first hearing on Friday, Jan. 22 at 10am
— Climate Solutions

Sign the petition:
Stand with Deb Haaland

She’s a historic choice to lead the Department of the Interior.

Biden must keep his promise to stop DAPL expansion

Update on Biden’s first day in Office

Call on the Biden Administration to Take Bold Action in its First 100 Days
— NRDC

Tell President Biden: #StopLine3 pipeline

Tell Biden: Adopt a Climate Test

It’s not enough to stop one single pipeline — we must go further and think bigger —  we must implement a climate test for all fossil fuel projects.

Join us this coming Tuesday, January 26th at 8pm ET / 5pm PT for the #BuildBackFossilFree Digital Rally

Biden and Congress: Take Climate Action Now

Send 10 immediate demands of the Biden Administration and Congress to tackle in their first 100 days.

For tribes, climate change fight is about saving culture

The Tulalips are expanding efforts to protect land and water that are integral to their identity.
— HearldNet

Wildfires Produced Up To Half Of Pollution In Western U.S. In Recent Years, Stanford / UC Study Finds

The findings underscore the growing public health threat posed by climate change as it contributes to catastrophic wildfires.
— CBS San Fransisco

Will states use the Capitol riot to crack down on pipeline protests?

In the riot’s aftermath, Ohio quietly joined a dozen states that have legislated harsh new penalties for environmental activism.
— Grist

Northwest’s Salmon Population May Be Running Out of Time

The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office found that some salmon species are “on the brink of extinction.”

2020 State of Salmon in Watersheds
Executive Summary
December 2020

Young people can do more than organize.

We can also help make climate policy

Is NASA about to get its first female leader?

No woman has led NASA in its 62-year history.
— Space.com

Most Populous Cities in the World

World Population in 2100, by Country

Both by Visual Capitalist

Study: Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals

This is a discussion of the report from 2-weeks ago, for which only the summary was available.
— Associated Press

Climate Change Drove $75 Billion in Rainfall Damage Over the Past 30 Years in U.S.

UN report:
Climate change means more weather disasters every year

— causing 2 million deaths and racking up $3.6 trillion worth of economic costs.
— PBS News Hour

Biden rejoining the Paris Agreement, explained

Biden just put the US back in the Paris Agreement

Now the pressure is on

2020 was the hottest year on record

We’ll remember it as one of the century’s coldest.
— Grist

Cooperative Chocolate: A Colombian Village’s Quest for Peace
— Yes Magazine

Creating a More Just Climate Future for Those on the Front Lines

The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act accounts for the unjust burden that climate change poses to communities of color.

Grape Crop Brings in Millions, but Farm Workers Live a Harsh Life

Vineyards well watered, while people struggle for water.
— circle of blue

Choose Democracy’s whirlwind effort to prevent a coup is a crash course in good organizing

Being part of the team that trained 10,000 people to defend the election taught me five principles I want to practice going forward.
— Eileen Flanagan

The Big Bold Jewish Climate Fest

The festival is free and open to all:
no experience or prior knowledge required.

Acknowledging Climate Change as a Central Moral Issue of our Community

Donations Welcome to Support Important Work in our Community Happening Now.
The Festival is free!

A federal appeals court has struck down President Trump’s industry-friendly Affordable Clean Energy, or ACE

That means that the new president can craft emissions regulations from scratch.
— Grist

A recent investigation of zip code-level health data shows that people living in low-income communities are more likely to get sick from heat-related illness.

“Zip codes do determine your health, and most of that is because of structural racism.”
— Mother Jones

An Ocean and Climate Agenda for the New Administration
— Center for American Progress

In Trump’s last days, a spree of environmental rollbacks
— The Washington Post

Healthier, Climate-Ready Fisheries on the Menu for Congress
— NRDC

Presidents Say the Darndest Things

Tiny windows, exploding dishwashers, and other lies Trump told about the environment — illustrated.
— Grist

Backlash to the Future

How the climate movement came of age under Trump.
— Grist