@robverchick

LawProf @Loyola_NOLA, Prez @CPRBlog, Fmr official @EPA, author: OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE: A CALL FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE

 New Orleans
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The Reflecting Pool Is Green. Part of the Gulf Is Dying. Guess Which One Made the News. open.substack.com/pub/robver…
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El Niño Is Coming: 4 Things You Should Know open.substack.com/pub/robver…
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What you don't know about those Iranian tankers. I'm almost at 100 subscriptions! Help me break through. Thanks! When Ghost Ships Smuggle Oil open.substack.com/pub/robver…
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Why Trump Has has the Hots for Greenland open.substack.com/pub/robver…
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I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/1265137…
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“Home insurance rates in Florida are among the highest in the nation, having increased by nearly 20 percent in 2023. The average homeowner there pays $10,996 per year; the national average is $2,377.” newrepublic.com/article/1847…

Hurricane Debby Is Fading; Florida’s Hellish Insurance Crisis Isn’t

A toxic combination of climate change and poor governance is leaving Floridians in a crunch.

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JOIN the conversation on tainted air and farmworkers! Next Wednesday, August 14 @ 2pm Eastern. Moderated by Member Scholar @MikeMendezPhD.
Dr. Michael Méndez@MikeMendezPhD9 Aug 2024
Join us for important climate-induced disasters & Farmworker Health webinar. socialecology.uci.edu/webfor…
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Mind-blowing new research from @NaomiOreskes shows definitively that climate change was on the minds of members of Congress as they drafted the Clean Air Act -- and that even schoolchildren were being alerted to the risks, way back in 1958: grist.org/science/lost-histo…

The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s

It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated, newly unearthed documents show.

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Justice Gorsuch's opinion refers five times to "nitrous oxide" (aka laughing gas) rather than the entirely different chemical compound -- smog-causing "nitrogen oxides" -- actually at issue in the case.
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Conservatives say America's greatness comes from individualism & small govt. Shapiro (@WFULawSchool) & Tomain (@UCincinnatiLaw) argue otherwise in "How Government Built America." Join their webinar on June 26 for insight into govt role of public policy! 🇺🇲 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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For Black voters, climate action is a priority nytimes.com/2024/05/25/opini…

Opinion | Biden Underestimates How Much Black Americans Care About This Issue (Published 2024)

The data shows that Black Americans are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change, from heat waves to extreme flooding.

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Congrats to the crew at Sea Change! They earned this Morrow Award with outstanding work on important issues to coastal Louisiana! wwno.org/wwno/2019-04-23/wwn…
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Education just got more expensive. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…

Schools that never needed AC are now overheating. Fixes will cost billions.

As heat waves creep north, they are baking schools that previously did not need air conditioning. Fixing the problem will be neither cheap, nor easy.

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This is a great summer read! Govt is when people solve big problems together.
Center for Progressive Reform@CPRBlog24 May 2024
🚨 "Small gov't" myth debunked! 🚨 Gov't intervention has shaped the U.S. from the 18th century to the 2008 crisis. NEW BOOK: "How Gov"t Built America," by Member Scholars Shapiro @WFULawSchool & Tomain @UCincinnatiLaw. theconversation.com/the-us-h… 📖 More in the @ConversationUS

The US has always had ‘big government’ – even in the Colonial era

The founders saw a need for government to intervene in markets.

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🚨 "Small gov't" myth debunked! 🚨 Gov't intervention has shaped the U.S. from the 18th century to the 2008 crisis. NEW BOOK: "How Gov"t Built America," by Member Scholars Shapiro @WFULawSchool & Tomain @UCincinnatiLaw. theconversation.com/the-us-h… 📖 More in the @ConversationUS

The US has always had ‘big government’ – even in the Colonial era

The founders saw a need for government to intervene in markets.

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"Journalists now know that Big Oil has a playbook, and it’s our responsibility to study it and factor that into our coverage." 🔥 @mollytaft @WeAreDrilled drilled.media/news/senate-he…

How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists - Drilled

Subpoenaed emails reveal the ways fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they often succeed.

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Great news! We gotta keep the pressure on keeping funding resilience. “Louisiana's new coastal plan gets final approval. Record spending included, but with a warning” nola.com/news/environment/lo…

Louisiana's new coastal plan gets final approval. Record spending included, but with a warning

Much of the revenue paying for coastal projects declines in the years ahead before expiring completely in 2032. Efforts are underway to find money to replace it.

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Rice’s Whales are a treasure trove of sci discovery. And also adorable! Endangered whale spotted in western Gulf faces industrial dangers - Verite News veritenews.org/2024/05/13/en…

Rice’s whale spotted in western Gulf

Evidence is mounting that the Rice’s whale, unique to the Gulf of Mexico, lives in the western Gulf, prompting new worries.

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“We already see nearly one-third of the world population exposed to deadly heat waves, a 9-fold increase in large North American wildfires, record-setting regional-scale megadrought, the Antarctic ice sheet losing…” academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…

Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future

Abstract. Human development has ushered in an era of converging crises: climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socioeconomic inequ

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#Exxon is hit with $726 million verdict over #benzene and #cancer. energyvoice.com/oilandgas/55… via @energyvoicenews

Exxon is hit with $726 million verdict over benzene and cancer

Exxon has been liable for damages following a former Mechanic saying the firm's products caused his cancer.

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