Biden-Harris Administration Makes $965M Available to Fund Clean School Buses that Reduce Pollution, Save Money, and Protect Children's Health
Latest funding opportunity under the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda builds on nearly $3 billion already invested into clean school buses nationwide
Today, Sept. 26, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the latest round of funding from the Clean School Bus Rebate Program with up to $965 million available to school districts. The Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda continues to accelerate the transition of the nearly 500,000 school buses in America to cleaner technologies, helping to protect the more than 25 million children who ride a school bus every day from harmful air pollution. This fourth round of funding will build on the previous nearly $3 billion in investments being distributed nationwide to further improve air quality in and around schools, reduce greenhouse gas pollution fueling the climate crisis, and help accelerate America's leadership in developing the clean vehicles of the future.
Under the Clean School Bus Program's multiple grant and rebate funding opportunities to date, EPA has awarded almost $3 billion to fund approximately 8,700 school bus replacements, approximately 95% of which are zero-emission, battery-electric. Funding has been awarded to nearly 1,300 school districts in nearly all 50 states and Washington D.C., along with several federally recognized Tribes and U.S. territories, many of which are identified as priority areas serving low-income, rural, and, or Tribal students.
Oakland Unified School District
Biden-Harris Administration Launches Environmental Justice Climate Corps
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and AmeriCorps announced the Environmental Justice Climate Corps
This partnership will support more than 250 AmeriCorps VISTA members nationwide over three years, with each new participating member completing a one-year term of service.
This program aims to recruit participants from communities disproportionately impacted by environmental justice challenges and seeks to recruit individuals with an interest in environmental justice careers.
CEO, AmeriCorps
“Through this groundbreaking partnership with EPA, we will target resources to underserved communities where they are needed most, while putting hundreds of young people from those communities on a path to environmental justice careers.”
EU stands firm on deforestation law news.mongabay.com/...
The European Union has stood firm on its new deforestation law
Despite opposition from Brazil, China, India and the U.S., the EU announced
that its deforestation regulation, EUDR, will come into force on Dec. 30.
the EU rejected rumors of a postponement
“We are therefore focusing on ensuring that all the elements necessary for the implementation of the Regulation are ready on time.”
The EUDR compels companies to provide geolocation data proving commodities are sourced from land that wasn’t deforested
the regulation has drawn support from environmental NGOs around the world.
“discarding this tool under pressure from the backward wing of agribusiness would be like dancing a waltz with the apocalypse.”
The following study is a few years old, but it remains the most comprehensive look at the science of Global Warming.
REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS, VOLUME 92, JULY–SEPTEMBER 2020 [paywalled]
Michael Ghil, Geosciences Department and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS and IPSL), Ecole Normale Supérieure and PSL University, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1565, USA
Valerio Lucarini, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Reading RG66AX, United Kingdom, Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth, University of Reading, Reading RG66AX, United Kingdom, and CEN—Institute of Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20144, Germany
(published 31 July 2020)
The climate is a forced, dissipative, nonlinear, complex, and heterogeneous system that is out of thermodynamic equilibrium. The system exhibits natural variability on many scales of motion, in time as well as space, and it is subject to various external forcings, natural as well as anthropogenic. This review covers the observational evidence on climate phenomena and the governing equations of planetary-scale flow and presents the key concept of a hierarchy of models for use in the climate sciences. Recent advances in the application of dynamical systems theory, on the one hand, and nonequilibrium statistical physics, on the other hand, are brought together for the first time and shown to complement each other in helping understand and predict the system’s behavior. These complementary points of view permit a self-consistent handling of subgrid-scale phenomena as stochastic processes, as well as a unified handling of natural climate variability and forced climate change, along with a treatment of the crucial issues of climate sensitivity, response, and predictability.
arXiv:1910.00583 [public access]
The Physics of Climate Variability and Climate Change
4 93% of global GDP is now covered by net-zero targets
5 US awards $3b to US companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries
6 Banks slash loans to UK North Sea oil groups
7 Norway's Equinor and Shell cancel plans to supply Germany with hydrogen produced from natural gas
8 Greenpeace activists who scaled Sunak’s roof cleared by judge
9 CATL unveils battery with lifespan 1.5 million kilometers and 15 years
10 South Africa's ad regulator finds Total Oil's sustainability claims ‘misleading’ in a first of its kind ruling
11 China is accelerating its green transition further
12 California sues ExxonMobil for ‘deceiving the public’ about plastic recycling
13 Colombia Looks to Future Without Oil in $40 Billion Transition Plan
14 California enacts 3 bills limiting in-state production of oil and gas
15 Unveiled: lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years
Shill, baby, shill.
