Climate and Energy News Roundup: July 2023
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This July 4th was the hottest day on record since climate scientists began using our present modeling system to estimate global daily average temperatures starting in 1979.
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Childcare isn’t a family issue: It’s an economic competitiveness issue
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The average annual cost of childcare for a child under 6 is $10,600, which comes to just over $200 per week. That’s for one kid. For two, the cost is more than the average monthly mortgage payments in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
Amid affordable housing crisis, Alexandria complex appears to be raising rates, threatening evictions
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Two U.S. Senators sent a letter to a real estate owner in Alexandria expressing concerns of tenants at an affordable housing complex.
Oklahoma senator, Teamsters president challenging each other to cagefight
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Monday was another day with two overcaffeinated white guys challenging each other to a cage fight.
Mark Warner: ‘No one, including the former president, should be above the law’
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Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, seems to be of two minds on classified documents.
Biden expected to veto House resolution to disapprove ATF rule on pistol braces
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ATF issued a final rule declaring such weapons as short-barreled rifles after several deadly mass shootings involved stabilizing braces.
Enshrining the right to contraception: Legislation would reverse state restrictions
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More than 50 years ago, the Supreme Court recognized the American right of women to contraception in Griswold v. Connecticut.
Economic Opportunity Coalition announces $1 billion investment in CDFIs and MDIs
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The Economic Opportunity Coalition announced they reached their goal of securing $1 billion in committed deposits in CDFIs and MDIs.
Sen Tim Kaine, feeling ‘helpless’ in response to gun violence: ‘There’s no safe space left’
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Tim Kaine is a former mayor of Richmond, which saw a high school graduation marred by gun violence this week, with the shooting deaths of a Huguenot High School graduate, Shawn Jackson, 18, and his stepfather, Renzo Smith, 36.
Post-COVID, Kaine introduces Roadmap to Recovery to build on economic progress
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine revealed his Roadmap to Recovery today in response to the expiration of the national COVID emergency last month.
