Climate and Energy News Roundup: November 2023
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Recent research indicates that accelerated ice melt in west Antarctica is inevitable for the rest of the century.
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Roddy Scheer: Has the Biden administration had success pushing wind power?
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In 2021, President Biden pledged to cut U.S. fossil fuel emissions by 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, promising to build 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind by then, enough to power 10 million homes.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: What’s making news in the environment
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A UN climate report card on progress since the 2015 Paris Agreement says countries are trying, but urgently need to improve their efforts.
Ship repair company to invest $8.5M in expansion of Norfolk operations
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A full-service ship repair and industrial services provider will invest $8.5 million to expand operations in Norfolk.
Virginia, East Coast likely to feel effects of Category 5 Hurricane Lee next week
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Hurricane Lee has strengthened to a Category 5 with 165 mph winds, and the intense storm will eventually track toward the United States.
The Fukushima tragedy resurfaces
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Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Public Citizen brings attention to ‘poison pill’ amendments in congressional bills
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We use the term “poison pill” to refer to amendments to legislation intended by the person introducing it to turn supporters of the bigger piece of legislation against it.
You hear a lot about shark sightings and attacks: Does this mean that sharks are more abundant than ever?
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It’s tough to accurately document shark sightings, but shark attacks are documented every year.
In the Chesapeake Bay, summertime striped bass fishing is in hot water
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Chesapeake Bay anglers are facing a stark future — a future in which summertime fishing for striped bass, once a hallmark of Bay fishing, may become a distant memory.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears joins aerospace association leadership team
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The Aerospace States Association (ASA) is an organization of Lieutenant Governors, Governor-appointed delegates and state legislators.
