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You can start applying for the American Climate Corps next month​

The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month, according to details shared exclusively with Grist.

The program is modeled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, launched in 1933 to help the country make it through the Great Depression. The positions with the new corps could range across a number of fields including energy-efficiency installations, disaster response preparedness, recycling, and wildfire mitigation.

The White House plans to officially launch an online platform in April. At first, only a couple of hundred jobs will be posted, but eventually up to 20,000 young people are expected to be hired in the program’s first year. Interested candidates can apply to the positions through the portal, and the majority of the positions are not expected to require experience.

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You can start applying for the American Climate Corps next month » Yale Climate Connections

Biden is calling on Congress for an additional $8 billion in funding for the program.
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Europe's restless farmers are forcing policymakers to act​

BRUSSELS, April 3 (Reuters) - European policymakers have scaled back rules to protect nature, drawn up limits on the import of tariff-free Ukrainian grains and scrapped new legislation limiting pesticide use as farmers' protests resonate with voters ahead of elections.

From Poland to Portugal, farmers have won remarkable concessions in response to waves of street action, reshaping the European Union's green politics months ahead of European Parliament elections.

Environmental activists and analysts say the policy backsliding illustrates the considerable political influence of farmers as mainstream parties seek to impede the far right and nationalist parties' hunt for votes in rural areas.

Farmers again blockaded streets surrounding the European Union headquarters in Brussels last week, spraying manure to protest low incomes, cheap food imports and burdensome red tape. As they did so, the bloc's farming ministers backed a new set of changes to weaken green rules linked to the disbursement of tens of billions of euros in farming subsidies.

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I think Greta may be insane.

Police detain Greta Thunberg in Hague protest | REUTERS​

Apr 6, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice by police in The Hague after she and a group of activists blocked a main road to protest against fossil-fuel subsidies.

 
I have not investigated or corroborated this claim. It seems absurd:
The European Union (EU) has thrown its support behind Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ radical plans “fight global warming” by blocking light from the Sun to lower the temperature on Earth.

The EU will join an international globalist effort to examine the effectiveness of the plan.
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EU Backs Bill Gates' Plan to 'Fight Global Warming' by Blocking the Sun - Slay News

The European Union (EU) has thrown its support behind Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' radical plans "fight global warming" by blocking light from the Sun to lower the temperature on Earth.
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Comment: Businesses must collaborate with farmers to mitigate half of food system emissions by 2030​

April 30 - With a third of all greenhouse gas emissions derived from the global food system, and agricultural land use being the largest driver of biodiversity loss and freshwater use, sustainable investment in the agriculture and food sector has the potential to deliver unprecedented impact as we look to secure a sustainable future.

The private sector is uniquely positioned to drive this transition. Analysis from, opens new tab the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) and We Mean Business Coalition (WMB) shows that by reducing emissions from agriculture, protecting nature, increasing on-farm carbon capture and storage, and shifting demand from emissions-intensive commodities, the food and agriculture sector can mitigate up to as much as 9 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) annually. That would amount to almost half of food system emissions globally by 2030.

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Carbon credit standards approval extended to 98% of market​

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Five of the world's largest carbon credit programmes have now been given initial approval by a body tasked with raising standards in the market for carbon offsets, where some of the biggest buyers include Microsoft, Salesforce and Amazon.

Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets (ICVCM) has added Verra and Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) to its list which meet its Core-Carbon Principles rule book.

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Australia's second-largest pension fund blacklists thermal coal investments​

SYDNEY, May 2 (Reuters) - Australian pension giant Australian Retirement Trust said on Thursday it would stop investing in most thermal coal companies from July as part of a plan to hit net zero emissions across its portfolio by 2050.

The A$280 billion ($183 billion) fund has introduced new rules to exclude any company which generates more than 10% of its revenue from the mining and sale of thermal coal, one of the most polluting energy sources.

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Shore electric is a good idea so ports do not smell like diesel or fuel oil all the time.
 

Republican-led states ask Supreme Court to quash Big Oil climate lawsuits​

May 23 (Reuters) - Nineteen Republican attorneys general have filed a rare complaint directly with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change-related litigation against major oil and gas companies in state courts.

The challenge, which legal experts say is unlikely to be successful because it raises arguments that are similar to ones the court has already refused to consider, was filed on Wednesday by states including Alabama, Florida and West Virginia against five Democratic-led states.

The complaint alleges that California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota and Rhode Island, by suing major energy companies in state court seeking damages for the harms of climate change, are essentially trying to regulate global emissions and the U.S. energy system. The lawsuit asks the high court to enjoin the defendant states from suing the companies over emissions or the sale and promotion of fossil fuel products in the plaintiff states.

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Back in my day, we didn't have the gummint stickin' their noses into every little thing, tellin' us how to live our lives like we don't know what's best for us! No sir, we took care of our own business and didn't need no fancy regulations on climate change, carbon zero, and globalism to tell us how to behave!

Now they got us jumpin' through hoops, reducin' our carbon footprint, chasin' after some elusive goal of bein' carbon zero like it's the holy grail! What happened to good ol' American freedom and independence? We used to rely on ourselves, not some international hootenanny pushin' us towards globalism and one world order!

I tell ya, back in my day, we didn't worry about all this climate change mumbo-jumbo or bein' carbon zero – we just lived our lives and took care of our own. But now, they got us sweatin' every time we drive a car or turn on a light bulb, afraid we'll offend the climate change gods or somethin'! Give me back the days of simple livin' and individual freedom, not this government overreach and globalist agenda!
 
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