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The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.

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Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.

 

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.

 

The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

 

The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing.

 

Aluminum giants hit major milestone with low-carbon production | Elysis, a joint venture of Alcoa and Rio Tinto, announced a breakthrough in scaling its carbon-free ​“inert anode” technology to clean up smelters.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

We don't have to be — the bulk of coal, oil, and gas is still in the ground. There are forests yet standing.

Doom is a choice, and one we can fight against.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Countries agreed to talk about talking about a plan for a fossil fuels phase out. Which is more than has happened before.

Its nowhere near where things need to be.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah, COP can only act by consensus, so the fossil fuels industry buys their way into national delegations, and blocks anything meaningful.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is a vehicle that's being made today, not some hypothetical future that has no pedestrians or other vehicles

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

Sure, but the choice in recent decades has been to leave it as is, or to completely gut it.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The thing about horsepower like that is that its complelty useless for the task of moving people; speed is limited by human perception and response time, not something about the engine or car.

Going faster means having a controlled travel environment, like high speed rail

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

Quite literally:

The plan was negotiated by Steve Witkoff, a real-estate developer with no historical, geographical, or cultural knowledge of Russia or Ukraine, and Kirill Dmitriev, who heads Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund and spends most of his time making business deals

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Its a gift link so access is free. Didn't hit the registration thing myself but easy enough for you to plug the URL into archive.ph

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago

Quit date affects special election timing

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