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March 28, 2024

Food Matters: Why Climate Change May Hinge On What We Eat and How We Grow It

This Project Drawdown webinar will present a new framework for addressing climate change from food, agriculture and land use as well as offering a glimpse into a new Project Drawdown Food initiative launching this year that will bring solutions in this space into much sharper focus. 1:00 p.m. ET.

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Maryland Lawmakers Balk at Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration

"Within a year of moving to Cherry Hill, a majority Black neighborhood on Baltimore’s southern tip, Shanae Thomas noticed her asthma—a health problem she was born with—had gradually worsened."

Source: Inside Climate News, 03/13/2024

"Legal Action Could End Use Of Toxic Sewage Sludge On US Crops As Fertilizer"

"New legal action could put an end to the practice of spreading toxic sewage sludge on US cropland as a cheap alternative to fertilizer, and force America to rethink how it disposes of its industrial and human waste."

Source: Guardian, 03/13/2024

Climate-Science Deniers Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

"Last July, a small group of rabble-rousers boarded a trio of powerboats, banners and bullhorns in hand. They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York."

Source: Sierra, 03/13/2024

"Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S."

"Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle. In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture."

Source: NYTimes, 03/12/2024

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