Chris Hamel

Retired

[Chris Hamel @chrishamel01]

Hoover Dam Approaches a Hydropower Cliff https://t.co/5E6mQko6BI via @circleofblue

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US securities regulator seeks to end corporate disclosures on climate risk https://t.co/sYjFzncH0k via @ft

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"The growing insurance protection gap, now at 65%, poses a significant financial risk to households and local governments, which have long relied on FEMA Specific Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) maps primarily based on riverine flooding, and generally don’t account for flood risk from storm surge, sea level rise or extreme precipitation, the Moody’s report said."
https://t.co/oJPYcLyeca

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Temperatures likely to breach record levels over next five years, WMO says https://t.co/zzLeoxcgIh via @financialtimes

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"The cost of water and related services is rising twice as fast as inflation while utilities scramble to cope with escalating droughts and more intense storms."
https://t.co/Ds4ypqfxan

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Warming seas are brewing extreme weather in months ahead, scientists forecast https://t.co/ASqFxFNJKZ via @financialtimes

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https://t.co/gHQWBWUJDx via @NYTimes

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"The White House is reviewing a proposal from the Securities and Exchange Commission to formally end Biden-era climate disclosure rules for publicly-traded companies." https://t.co/ylQhJvEkCc

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BP suffers heavy defeat in investor climate vote https://t.co/QbteXxQxSy via @ft

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"The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues." Read more reporting: https://t.co/tY8bdqQrFH

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"Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents."
https://t.co/LBknVJZVQG

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Transaction lawyers and bankers make note: https://t.co/aDhrWsH0AM

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"Marine heat waves are supercharging damage caused by hurricanes and tropical cyclones across the globe, a new study found." Read more reporting:
https://t.co/eNMNRzchLr

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"Nearly 19,000 have ignited nationwide since Jan. 1, about 6,900 more than normal compared to the past decade. In recent weeks, flames have scorched nearly 1 million acres of cattle grazing land and prairie in the Great Plains and dampened tourism in parts of the Everglades, where air boat operators have struggled to navigate dried-out swamps." https://t.co/etmpZo7nfR

[Chris Hamel @chrishamel01]

"The new Wildland Fire Service will consolidate all Interior Department firefighting efforts as a lacking winter and ongoing drought promises a bad fire season." https://t.co/3r6m21Sb0E

[Chris Hamel @chrishamel01]

"The usual argument for stadium subsidies is that they bring new economic activity to cities and help create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods. This argument is usually specious; football stadiums are empty most days of the year, and the money people spend at stadiums probably would have been spent at other businesses anyway." https://t.co/9aDWrbOR8S

[Chris Hamel @chrishamel01]

"Vermont’s effort to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change was tested Monday in a federal courtroom, where the state argued that two lawsuits challenging its groundbreaking 2024 law should be thrown out."
https://t.co/mUReUHYeFN

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Federal 'God squad' exempts oil and gas drilling in the gulf from endangered species rules https://t.co/BMg7rF3dZZ

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'Offshore wind is out. Geothermal power is in. And many climate technology start-ups are looking for ways to carry on without federal backing.'
https://t.co/piqQLugBMH

[Chris Hamel @chrishamel01]

"Kate Marvel, a widely known climate scientist and author, has resigned from her position at NASA, citing the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science in the United States." https://t.co/6vzOJMmI74