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As lawmakers offer dueling infrastructure proposals in an effort to get a bipartisan bill across the finish line, New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich (D) is looking to a different option: pushing forward with the president’s climate priorities, through budget reconciliation. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Heinrich said the infrastructure package and climate initiatives will likely “move in parallel” given the lack of Republican support for a broader $2 trillion proposal, focused… Source link

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019, in Washington. Paul Morigi | Getty Images | Amazon A group of seven tech companies urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to require businesses to regularly disclose climate-related matters to their shareholders. In a letter to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler on Friday, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, eBay, Facebook, Intel and Salesforce shared their view in response… Source link

The New York Times The Caribbean Conundrum: United by Tourists, Divided by COVID On the glassy blue waters surrounding the U.S. Virgin Islands, catamarans and pleasure yachts have packed the shoreline for the past year — a scene so busy and crowded, it is unimaginable, even before the pandemic. Indeed, the business of charter yachts is booming, and expected to pump at least $88 million into the local economy this season, almost double the roughly $45 million that came in 2019, according to… Source link

When most people flip on a light, they don’t think about where the power comes from before it illuminates the room. But for President Biden’s climate plan to succeed, the United States is going to have to move a lot more electricity across much greater distances—and catch up with China in the process. Biden’s plan calls for eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions from the power sector by 2035, and from the entire economy by 2050. To encourage other nations to aggressively combat global… Source link

President Biden’s climate plan is ambitious, but achievable, many experts believe. On April 22, Earth Day, Biden announced a national goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by up to 52% by 2030, compared with 2005 levels. That’s nearly twice the reduction President Obama aimed for, and the most aggressive American effort yet to address global warming. Biden has also set goals of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector by 2035 and in the overall economy by 2050…. Source link

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: Apr 18, 2021 / 08:42 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 18, 2021 / 08:42 PM CDT A person looks at a Google Earth map of Paris, France on a screen as Google Earth unveils the revamped version of the application April 18, 2017 at a event at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art.(Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The Google Earth app is adding a new video… Source link

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: Apr 17, 2021 / 10:00 AM CDT / Updated: Apr 16, 2021 / 07:06 AM CDT A person looks at a Google Earth map of Paris, France on a screen as Google Earth unveils the revamped version of the application April 18, 2017 at a event at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art.(Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The Google Earth app is adding a new video… Source link

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: Apr 16, 2021 / 09:35 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 16, 2021 / 09:36 PM CDT A person looks at a Google Earth map of Paris, France on a screen as Google Earth unveils the revamped version of the application April 18, 2017 at a event at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art.(Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The Google Earth app is adding a new video… Source link

The Google Earth app is adding a new video feature that draws upon nearly four decades of satellite imagery to vividly illustrate how climate change has affected glaciers, beaches, forests and other places around the world. The tool unveiled Thursday is rolling out in what is being billed as the biggest update to Google Earth in five years. Alphabet’s Google GOOGL, -0.20% says it undertook the complex project in partnership with several government… Source link

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: Apr 15, 2021 / 08:03 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 15, 2021 / 08:03 PM EDT A person looks at a Google Earth map of Paris, France on a screen as Google Earth unveils the revamped version of the application April 18, 2017 at a event at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art.(Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The Google Earth app is adding a new video… Source link