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Climate News You Can Use — September 2023

EDF + Business

Congress: Shutdown threat looms, impacting Federal programs including IRA, Farm Bill Congress is now back in session and must pass an appropriations bill or continuing resolution by September 30 th to keep the government open. Take Action: Urge you r members of Congress to do the responsible thing and keep the government open.

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A Note from Defend’s New Project Director, on Defend’s Mission and What Comes Next

Defend Our Future

The team has been working on some exciting new initiatives the last few months, and we’ll be talking about them soon in this blog and over email (sign up here so you don’t miss Kyli’s exceptional emails.) Defend Our Future exists because Congress isn’t doing its job. Young People Can End the Climate Change Stalemate in Washington.

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COVID-19, Climate, Civilization

Business Green

Prior to the arrival of the virus, politicians and media everywhere had got into a bad habit of treating all opinions as equally valid. Greta Thunberg was right when she told the US Congress not to listen to her but to ‘Listen to the scientists.'. This article first appeared at E3G's blog. He is not saying it now.

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Businesess and Employees Supporting the Climate Strikes

Green Market Oracle

They also called out their employer for supporting members of Congress who vote against climate action. Amazon employees sent a letter to their boss and the board of directors telling them to adopt a climate plan. Thousands of Google employees signed a pledge calling for their employer to support climate action.

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Montana Is Paying a Climate Denier to Give Expert Testimony in Upcoming Trial

DeSmogBlog

Julia Olson, the lawyer who took Curry’s deposition, has described her as “the number one climate skeptic scientist that the Republicans go to for testimony in Congress, that the fossil fuel industry goes to.” What I bring to the table is meta expertise,” she said, “something that is increasingly called ‘wicked science.’”