that is the tax $ trump saves you when he guts #health and #environmental regs, #climate adaption programs, medicare, etc.
what? this makes you uncomfortable? good. guess how healthcare workers feel about it under trump.
#doge
#deregulation
#environment
#health
#COVID
#pollution
#climatecrisis
#uspol
#trump
Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250407172923.htm
No one does #environmental campaigning the way the Australien, sorry, @thejuicemedia does: here a public announcement about the #salmon industry, which btw is a #health and environmental disaster around the world. As their tagline puts it, "Authorised by the department for selling out #Australia under the guise of saving jobs".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oNOxrJH548c&t=236s&pp=2AHsAZACAQ%3D%3D
If we focus #BuyFromEU or any kind of movement on the expansion of #capitalism within the #EU and abandon our communities, lower our #environmental standards, allow the #wealthy to take advantage of this 'rally around the flag' to profit at the expense of our connections to our neighbours, it won't matter if we break the hold of the #US over the #Europe. We'll pave the way for our own #fascism.
State by State Pending and recently passed #AntiProtestLaws: #Alabama
#HB412: Felony penalties for #protesters near gas and oil #pipelines
Would substantially increase existing penalties that could cover protesters who demonstrate on pipeline property. Under the bill, unauthorized entry onto “critical infrastructure,” which includes pipelines, would be a Class D felony punishable by at least one and up to five years in prison, rather than a serious misdemeanor. As such, demonstrators who enter onto pipeline property could face felony arrest and significant prison time. The trespass offense covers entry onto areas of “#CriticalInfrastructure” that are not posted against trespassing or enclosed by a physical barrier, if any authorized person forbids entry.
See full text of bill here:
https://legiscan.com/AL/bill/HB412/2025
Status: pending
Introduced 6 Mar 2025.
Issue(s): Infrastructure, Trespass
SB 247: New penalties for #StreetProtesters
Would create a new criminal offense that could cover protesters who demonstrate in the street or obstruct access to businesses and residences. The bill, which focuses on targeted residential picketing, also broadly prohibits protesters from “block[ing] any public road, the ingress or egress of any residence, or the ingress or egress of any place of employment while #picketing or protesting.” The prohibition would seemingly cover a large street protest, regardless of whether it actually interfered with traffic, as well as a large protest in an urban area that even temporarily blocked the entrance to a shop or apartment building. A first offense would be a Class C misdemeanor (up to three months in jail), and subsequent offenses would be a Class B misdemeanor (up to six months in jail).
Full text of bill here: https://legiscan.com/AL/bill/SB247/2025
Status: pending
Introduced 18 Mar 2025.
Issue(s): Traffic Interference
SB 152: New controls on protest locations and costs for protest organizers
Allows municipalities in Lauderdale County to control where protesters may gather, and charge them expansive fees for a permit. Under the law, municipalities may prohibit spontaneous protests in public forums by requiring protesters to obtain permits in certain circumstances, including if the demonstration "will involve more than a certain number of individuals participating, as established by the municipality." The law also allows municipalities to charge protester organizers a permit fee that includes "the actual cost of cleanup," "the actual cost of the use of #LawEnforcementOfficers," and "any other actual administrative cost incurred by the municipality."
Full text of bill here: https://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.ASPX?BILL=SB152&WIN_TYPE=BillResult
Status: enacted
Introduced 21 Feb 2021; Approved by Senate 16 March 2021; Approved by House 13 April 2021; Signed by Governor Ivey 27 April 2021
Issue(s): Security Costs
SB 17 / HB 21: New Penalties for Protests Near Gas and Oil Pipelines
Expands the definition of "critical infrastructure" under Alabama law to include pipelines and mining operations, such that protesters who enter onto pipeline property could face steep penalties. Preexisting Alabama law prohibited individuals from unauthorized entry onto critical infrastructure, defined as intentionally entering a posted area of critical infrastructure; the offense is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $6,000. Under this law, if a person interrupts or interferes with the operations of critical infrastructure while trespassing, they would additionally be guilty of a Class C felony, punishable by at least one and up to ten years in prison. This law also expanded the definition of "person" to include nonprofits, creating the possibility that nonprofits who provide support or organizing for #environmental protests near critical infrastructure where individuals then #trespass could face organizational liability. The draft law was pre-filed for the 2022 legislative session in September 2021. It is nearly identical to HB 516 introduced in 2021.
Full text of bill here: https://legiscan.com/AL/bill/SB17/2022
Status: enacted
Introduced 11 Jan 2022; Approved by Senate 1 February 2022; Approved by House 10 February 2022; Signed by Governor Ivey 15 February 2022
Issue(s): Protest Supporters or Funders, Infrastructure, Trespass
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Well, there it is…
#Trump has signed #ExecutiveOrders aimed at reviving the #coal industry.
The moves include loosening #environmental #law & #regulations.
Trump signed 4 EOs Tues aimed at expanding the mining & use of coal in the #US.
Flanked by dozens of miners in white hard hats [#propaganda photo op], Trump said he was instructing the #DOJ to identify & fight state policies & regulations that were “putting our coal miners out of business.”
#climate #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/climate/trump-order-coal-mining.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5781E5BA-F178-4261-92CB-848513C43ED2
#environmental and #CircularEconomy
The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace!
A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork !
Hey all #environmental and #CircularEconomy BlueSkyians! The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace!
A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork !
www.syke.fi/en/about-us/...
Syke’s postdoctoral programme’...
6 positions at UCL Geography - if you're doing #participatoryResearch and #CitizenScience on #Environmental and #Geographical problems with #policy
Assoc Lecturer (Teaching) in Environment, Politics and Society, 0.5FTE,
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Assoc Lecturer (Teaching) in Geospatial Data Analysis and Cartography, 0.5FTE,
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Lecturer in Env Governance & Lecturer in Geographies of Health - 4 full-time
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#AcademicJobs
The Staggering #Ecological Impacts of Computation and the #Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez illustrates some of the diverse #environmental impacts of data storage.
by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate
Excerpt: "#TheCloud now has a greater #CarbonFootprint than the airline industry. A single #DataCenter can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states. Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall #CarbonEmissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions.
"Why so much energy? Beyond cooling, the energy requirements of data centers are vast. To meet the pledge to customers that their data and cloud services will be available anytime, anywhere, data centers are designed to be hyper-redundant: If one system fails, another is ready to take its place at a moment’s notice, to prevent a disruption in user experiences. Like Tom’s air conditioners idling in a low-power state, ready to rev up when things get too hot, the data center is a Russian doll of redundancies: redundant power systems like diesel generators, redundant servers ready to take over computational processes should others become unexpectedly unavailable, and so forth. In some cases, only 6 to 12 percent of energy consumed is devoted to active computational processes. The remainder is allocated to cooling and maintaining chains upon chains of redundant fail-safes to prevent costly downtime."
Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#NoNukesForAI #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForDatacenters #AI #LMs #Datacenters #WaterIsLife
#RepairCafe offers free fixes for broken items to help limit #environmental waste
by Nadja Woods, April 5, 2025
“I really like doing this, and for the planet, we don’t have to waste more resources trying to put something else new into the market. We already have great things, so there’s a multitude of reasons why I do this,” said Espinoza.
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/repair-cafe-fixes-broken-items-limit-environmental-waste/64394795
#SolarPunkSunday #RightToRepair #RepairCafesIN #RepairCafe #SolarPunk #BuildingCommunity #ReduceReuseRepair
My idea about how #trade agreements should be done by the #EU: All products imported into the EU should adhere to current and *future* EU regulations. EU regulations should enforce #workerrights, #animalrights, #climate change protection, #environmental responsibility, #consumer rights and more.
All who adhere to good practices should be welcome to sell without tariffs.
Now let the EU work on improving regulations that support public values for the planet and all its inhabitants.
We had a wonderful time at the Huber Woods #Environmental Center in #Monmouth County, #NewJersey today. It is the former estate of the German #immigrant Huber family from the late 1890s-early 1900s who established a farm here and preserved the land. They donated the land and their home to the Monmouth County #Parks to be a free educational center on the #environment for the public. Their beautiful Alpine-inspired house is now the #Nature Center for the park.
Looking for some #positivity to end the week? I have recapped 42 notable #positive #environmental and #ClimateChange articles from past month including: the benefits of the #Ulez in #London, #Texas setting a new record for #Renewable #Energy generation and #NewDelhi creating seven new biodiversity parks on previously degraded land.
https://primonatura.co.uk/positive-environmental-stories-012/
Opposition parties in #Norway are pushing the gov to rethink ‘illogical’ ethical ban on its $1.8T sovereign wealth fund (from #oil & gas money) toward defense companies.
Currently, investing in arms manufacturers is barred, as is investing in roughly 250 other companies due to corruption, manufacturing harmful products like tobacco, or causing #environmental damage.
Last year the fund posted a record $222B profit, thanks to the strong performance of #tech #stocks... 
https://fortune.com/europe/2025/04/02/norway-sovereign-wealth-fund-illogical-ethical-ban-defense-weapons/
Swedish health and hygiene firm Essity has been named on the global non-profit #environmental organisation CDP's 'A List', which the company says underpins its corporate transparency and climate leadership. 
In the first update since ~2019, a principle about minimising 
#Environmental impact has been added to the #Government #DesignPrinciples.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles#minimise-environmental-impact
In the field of #RemoteSensing, precision and reliability are critical for capturing and analyzing data that drives decision-making across a wide range of industries. Optical filters are tailored to meet the unique requirements of many applications, such as #geospatial #mapping, #hyperspectral imaging, #environmental monitoring, #agricultural health, #weather and #cloud monitoring, #LiDAR and 3D #earth mapping. Learn more: https://ilphotonics.com/optical-filters-for-remote-sensing-applications/
Energy affordability concerns fueled criticism of #decarbonization, amplifying polarized narratives.
During the third wave, sentiment turned negative. Many popular posts became critical of the energy transition, blaming #environmental #policies for the high costs and economic hardship.
