The #LRAN2024 session on winning community benefits from the major federal spending bills - the CHIPS & Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Infrastructure Law.
Want a map of all US factories making the nuts & bolts of clean energy?
Behold: every facility making solar, wind, battery, grid, & efficient building components.
Communities nationwide stand to gain from IRA $ to manufacture our clean energy future. 🧵
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This you? Then join us! Become an Inflation Reduction ACTivator! Tell your friends and fam about all the $ they have to go electric, save money, improve home health and cut emissions. #electrifyeverythingactivators.rewiringamerica.o…
Weekend reminder that SimCity's creators couldn't accurately reflect the scale of urban parking lots because if they did the game fell apart.
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You’re going to want to check this out:
A new analysis is showing the Inflation Reduction Act will create more than 9 million good jobs over the next decade, most significantly in clean manufacturing and American energy.
Nearly a million jobs a year for a decade!
NEW: The next #2020Census data release will be Aug. 12 @ 1PM ET. We'll host a news conference to discuss redistricting data – the first local level census results. 👉 go.usa.gov/xFRfB
🚨Unvaccinated people aren't a monolith. It's a huge mistake to treat them all as anti-vaxxers who are being selfish or antagonistic.
I spoke to @RheaBoydMD about why some folks are still unvaccinated, what to do about it, & why she's still hopeful. 1/
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With Biden stumbling over Facebook and vaccine misinfo, I wrote about how he could reset the terms of the debate:
Focus less on what platforms leave up and take down, and more on what their fundamental design and algorithms incentivize and promote. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
In 2020, after more than 20 years of funding frozen for firearms-related research, the US finally began to spend some serious money on one of the country’s top 20 killers. @NidhiSubs tracks what’s been happening with the money in this new analysis 🧵 go.nature.com/3eE3plq
How many people impacted by current "unhealthy" air quality index from wildfires? Over a hundred million? This stretches across many of the most populous parts of the USA
Randi Weingarten, union president of American Federation of Teachers, is investing $5M into future legal fees for when state legislatures try to sue her members for teaching critical race theory. on.msnbc.com/2UFFA5z
“The economy is nested in a culture within a society, which in turn is nested in the environment and nature. Our communities are sinks; our families are too. … The planet is running out of its sink capacities.”
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#Coal is a dying industry, but its workers are still here. Dr. Jeremy Richardson and Lee Anderson of @The_UWUA discuss how to support workers through a clean-energy transition on the #GotScience podcast ucsusa.org/resources/plan-co…