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📢 Urgent Action Alert! 🚨 The I55 managed lane proposal is now before the Senate. This project poses a serious threat to Little Village and Pilsen, increasing climate and diesel emissions. We need YOUR help to stop this! Call your Senator TODAY and demand opposition to HJR23 #IL

On December 9, @ErinAlemanCMAP joins @NARCregions for a conversation on climate extremes and #GreatLakes infrastructure. Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Is Your Town Threatened by Floods or Fires? Consider a ‘Managed Retreat.’ nyti.ms/3rec96B

This new paper is hugely important. It demonstrates empirically that when it comes to meeting human needs what matters is *not* aggregate economic growth (beyond moderate levels), but rather provisioning systems. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here's a little game motivated by absolutely nothing called "which US power plants emitted more CO2 than entire states' energy sectors in 2019?" OVERALL WINNER: James H Miller, a coal plant in Alabama, at 18 million metric tonnes, comes in ahead of 6 states (just behind Hawaii)

@jennifer____h Very jealous

Meanwhile, in Detroit after last night’s rain

This chart of the 20 biggest wildfires in modern California history is a terrifyingly vivid illustration of the trend of fire in the state. When it was prepared, last fall, each of the 2020 fires on the list were still burning.

"We found fossil fuel projects already in the pipeline will, by 2030, produce 35% more oil and 69% more coal than what's consistent with a pathway towards a 1.5℃ temperature rise." phys.org/news/2021-06-f…

Rush hour rules our lives, our cities, our roads, our transit systems, our tax dollars. Telework — even modestly more telework — could begin to change that: nytimes.com/2021/06/11/ups…

It’s literally raining PFAS around the Great Lakes, say researchers mlive.com/public-interes…

@jennifer____h Oh boy! Really? It's Aldo's second day today and we haven't heard anything about this! Can you fill me in?

Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research theguardian.com/environment/20…

The high levels of resource consumption that rich countries enjoy depend significantly on *net appropriation* from the rest of the world. The damage from extraction is inflicted "elsewhere".

Learn more about our water supply planning work here: cmap.illinois.gov/programs/water…

Thank you!

“A new study found that fine particulate pollution generated by the burning of fossil fuels was responsible for one in five early deaths worldwide in 2018—far more than previously thought.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-t…

“Scientists at say they have gathered snow samples from 20 different Siberian regions - from the Altai mountains to the Arctic - and that their preliminary findings confirm airborne plastic fibres are turning up in snow in remote parts of the wilderness.” reuters.com/article/us-env…

@Biggie_PUN Back on?

My gas is out and it is very chilly already in here. 🥺

@jennifer____h Let's meet up at the park and pool this summer!