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[Chicago Environmental Justice Network @CEJNetwork]

📢 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

[Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning @cmapillinois]

On December 9, @ErinAlemanCMAP joins @NARCregions for a conversation on climate extremes and #GreatLakes infrastructure. Register at https://t.co/4tnXl5nEyH

[nora @norabeck]

Is Your Town Threatened by Floods or Fires? Consider a ‘Managed Retreat.’ https://t.co/ACffyqtPJc

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

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. https://t.co/AHhJO3NtzL

[Emily Grubert @emilygrubert]

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)

[nora @norabeck]

@jennifer____h Very jealous

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Meanwhile, in Detroit after last night’s rain

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

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.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

"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." https://t.co/h0rbs8aPMj

[Emily Badger @emilymbadger]

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: https://t.co/IQ6gBoZYru

[Margaret Schneemann @MSCHNEEMANN]

It’s literally raining PFAS around the Great Lakes, say researchers https://t.co/vTXOQCh1p7

[nora @norabeck]

@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?

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research https://t.co/NsuWZpYX9f

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

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".

[nora @norabeck]

Learn more about our water supply planning work here: https://t.co/tWRQQnAfck

[nora @norabeck]

Thank you!

[Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning @cmapillinois]

Nora Beck received the individual Core Values Award. Nora is a leader in CMAP's water supply work, bringing partners together to collaborate on tough challenges. She also excels at finding innovative ways to include water sustainability in projects. Congratulations, Nora! #PSRW

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“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.” https://t.co/Bk5aaUYBRW

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“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.” https://t.co/6C05xMcZFH

[nora @norabeck]

@Biggie_PUN Back on?

[nora @norabeck]

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