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The Daily Climate
- Opinion: Artificial intelligence can spur chemical plant decarbonizationAI can help engineers navigate thousands of decisions each shift, including constant energy, emissions, and cost trade-offs.
- Clear Horizons Act, setting emissions goals, heads to New Mexico Senate floorThe Clear Horizons Act would enshrine the climate goals enacted by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s 2019 executive order to lower New Mexico’s greenhouse gas emissions to a 2005 target level.
- Black carbon spewing from ships is a major climate threat in the ArcticA coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and blankets parts of glaciers and snow.
- What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes' futureUsing old records, scientists created a new dataset on ice cover since 1897. It's already being used to study a declining fish species.
- Fracking boom put oil field in Texas river’s floodplainLack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.
Recovery Diva
- The Importance of Emergency ManagementFrom History Today: Elevating Emergency Management to the Executive Suite The Strategic Imperative of Emergency Management Leadership “Emergency management is one of the most consequential functions in state government, yet in most states it is not positioned that way. Today, … Continue reading →
- FEMA Will Resume Staff ReductionsFrom AP News: FEMA staff reductions paused during winter storm will resume “The Federal Emergency Management Agency will resume staff cuts that were briefly paused during January’s severe winter storm, according to two FEMA managers, stoking concern across the agency … Continue reading →
- Recent Recovery ExperienceFrom HSNW: States Reeling from Winter Storm Encounter a Smaller FEMA “The Trump administration was quick to mobilize initial aid, but it’s not clear how a shrunken agency will handle the long-term recovery costs. States slammed by a deadly, multiday … Continue reading →
- More on the Deterioration of FEMAFrom NRDC: Death by a Thousand Cuts: FEMA Under the Second Trump Administration. The agency’s mission is simple: to help people before, during, and after a disaster. This administration is making that almost impossible. “In a year, the Trump administration has … Continue reading →
- A New Take on Disaster AidFrom Politico: Internal report urges Trump to transform disaster aid The FEMA Review Council recommends replacing the decades-old system for distributing money to states with a plan triggered by weather conditions, not monetary damage.


