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Some Gains, Many Losses: What Went Wrong for Climate in This Year’s State Budget

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  • PatJA
    Posted April 26, 2024 at 8:03 am

    Artificial turf is another front on which the state legislature should act. Natural turf and other greenery in urban parks cools and cleanses the air. Synthetic turf heats the air and contains PFAs, forever chemicals that are unhealthy for players and the air and water. We need our parks to alleviate heat island effect, not exacerbate it.

    Bills to limit PFAs have been introduced but have gone nowhere. Next session, bills should be introduced and pass to ban artificial turf altogether.

  • Scott Baker
    Posted April 30, 2024 at 10:57 am

    Is the HEAT Act really such a good idea? I’m hesitant to put all my eggs in an electric basket. And by eggs, I mean literal eggs. Suppose there’s a blackout. The refrigerator will quickly warm up and food will spoil. Are people going to be prevented from at least cooking their food on a gas stove before it spoils? That leaves only whatever boxed food they happen to have, neither particularly healthy nor sustainable if markets are closed in a power outage.
    We’ve already seen how people lose phone access when there’s a blackout, when the phones used to work on a separate system, before landlines went digital and cell towers could go dark, and smartphones went with no way to recharge them.
    And what if there’s another Carrington Event from a solar flare? It won’t just be the telegraph system that shorts out this time, maybe taking months or longer to restore. In an all electric building without its own sources of energy, no one will be able to so much as prepare food on a hotplate.

  • io games
    Posted May 3, 2024 at 3:37 am

    I’m not sure I can trust an electronic basket with all my money. When I say “eggs,” I mean real eggs. Say a power outage occurs. Food will go bad as soon as the fridge gets hot.

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