NPR reports: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in an important environmental case today. It will consider whether to pause a federal rule obligating states to be “good neighbors.” At the heart of the dispute is a provision of the Clean Air Act that protects people and states subject to pollution that floats downwind from other states. These “downwind states” struggle to meet federal air quality standards, and their residents can face health complications due to pollution from afar.
I would think a better question is why individual states are at liberty to establish lesser standards than others in the first place. Can’t these mandates be made at a federal level? A coal-fired power plant in Colorado emits the same lethal array of greenhouse gases, heavy metals, and radioactive isotopes as one in Alabama.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Its “Good Neighbor Policy”
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Educating for Peace
What this really means is teaching kids that:
All human beings, rich or poor, black or white, gay or straight, have equal value.
The people who have had the privilege to see the Earth from space are uniformly shocked, usually moved to tears, to see that all the lines and boundaries that define our geopolitical world do not really exist; they are constructs of the uber-wealthy who profit from division and war.
I would love to see Maria Montessori’s dream come true. Yet, as a realist, living in the United States, I see the enormity of the challenge we face here.
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Did January 6th Really Happen, or Was it a Hoax, as Trump Wants You to Believe?
If I had told you ten years ago that one man would rise to power in the United States who would have such a command over the American people that he could make up any lie he wanted to — and it would be broadly recognized as true — would you have believed me?
Anyone would have bet $100 against a dime that this was impossible. Yet here we are, in a land where Trump can literally rewrite history, just by opening his mouth.
Did January 6th Really Happen, or Was it a Hoax, as Trump Wants You to Believe?
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Transparent Solar PV
This is theoretically possible; it transmits visible light and uses other frequencies (ultra-violet and infrared) to knock electrons out of the substrate. But it means higher costs and lower efficiencies. Of zero practical value at this point.
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