
Climate and Energy News Roundup: July update from Climate Action Alliance of the Valley
Unprecedented floods in South Asia and China have forced mass evacuations and left millions miserable.

Unprecedented floods in South Asia and China have forced mass evacuations and left millions miserable.

How can anyone sleep at night? My first nightmare about environmental crisis occurred in 1990. I was eight years old. In it, acid rain poured from the sky, scalding the skin of humans and stripping holes in the leaves of trees.

Join the conversation on Thursday from 5-7 p.m. for a virtual Community Workshop to discuss the City of Charlottesville’s Climate Vulnerability Assessment.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group report gives us until 2030 to stop global warming at 1.5°C. The report proposes several steps that are vital to achieving that goal.

If we continue with more of the same, we can kiss 1.5°C goodbye. Even 2 degrees may be out of reach. And that would be catastrophe. This is madness. Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction. — UN Secretary-General António Guterres Our climate crisis Christiana Figueres, a former UN climate chief and co-author of The Future…

Federal partners of the regional Chesapeake Bay Program unveiled an initial round of actions that each plan to take to counter climate change impacts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

China is a common target for criticism when it comes to emissions; the most populous country on the planet uses fossil fuels for 87 percent of its energy production.

Virginia will receive $165.8 million in funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to provide Virginians with more transportation options, ease congestion in local communities, and reduce carbon pollution.

The City of Charlottesville Climate Protection Program is launching two surveys for community input to inform its climate action plan for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and its climate vulnerability assessment.

Pollen may be an unfortunate contributor to poor health in the first place, but there are signs that this nuisance will become worse.
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