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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #205, NOVEMBER 18, 2024. Compiled
by Dick Bennett.
3 Upbeat Fighting Back Articles
from Inside Climate News
Inside Climate News: Election 2024
Georgina Gustin. “Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0.”
Disheartened,
worried, even scared, activists and strategists are nevertheless better
prepared this time around and bracing for a long fight. Donald Trump has promised
to demolish the country’s domestic and international climate policies at a
crucial moment, when climate scientists say the window is closing on the
world’s ability to avoid the most dangerous impacts of global warming. Read the full story
Wyatt Myskow, et al. “Despite Likely Setback for Climate Action With This Year’s
Election, New Climate Champions Set to Enter Congress.”
Across
the country, voters elected new members to Congress who have promoted climate
action at the state level and could prevent environmental laws from being
weakened under Republican leadership. The 2024
election will likely result in a major setback for
climate action, with President-elect Donald Trump retaking the White House and
Republicans taking back control of the Senate. Climate advocates in Congress
now must work to ward off the worst attempts to weaken the country’s bedrock
environmental laws and gut recently passed climate actions from the Biden
administration. Read the full story [Send me what you know about the
results, and I’ll pass it along. -D]
“How to Think About Climate and Environmental Policies
During a Second Trump Administration: What
lies ahead for Project 2025, EVs, the EPA and more.” From our collaborating
partner Living on Earth, public radio’s
environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni
Doering and Steve Curwood with Inside Climate News’s Washington bureau
chief Marianne Lavelle and executive editor Vernon Loeb, about what the
election of Donald Trump may mean for the environment. Read the full story
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