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California Governor Wants Truce With Trump in Homelessness Fight - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...nia-homeless-newsom-trump.html Trump California Crisis US
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  • Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that he would send an envoy to meet with administration officials and discuss ways to address the issue together
  • the state was mobilizing 100 camping trailers to shelter some of the state’s more than 150,000 homeless people
  • Nearly half of all unsheltered people in the United States live in California.
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  • which have been locked for years in tense battles on everything from environmental regulations to immigration. Homelessness has become a particularly sore spot, with President Trump repeatedly criticizing California cities for their management of the issue.
  • Mr. Trump ordered that San Francisco be cited for an environmental violation because of human waste on the city’s streets, a problem that administration officials linked to homelessness. “They have to clean it up,” Mr. Trump said. “We can’t have our cities going to hell.”
  • tolerability of sleeping on the streets.”
  • The state has identified more than 1,300 state-owned properties that could potentially be used to shelter homeless people
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Microsoft pledges to be 'carbon negative' by 2030 | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...carbon-emissions-negative-2030 crisis climate US economics
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  • hopes to have removed enough carbon to account for all the direct emissions the company has ever made by 2050.
  • technology built without these principles can do more harm than good
  • Microsoft explains it wants to reach its goal to cut its carbon emissions for its supply and value chain by more than half by 2030 through a portfolio of negative emission technologies, potentially including afforestation – the opposite of deforestation, creation new forests – and reforestation, soil carbon sequestration, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and direct air capture.
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  • By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975
  • fund the efforts by expanding its internal carbon fee – a fee the company has charged to its business groups to account for their carbon emissions.
  • $1bn over the next four years to speed up the development of carbon removal technology
  • will require technology by 2030 that doesn’t fully exist today
  • A company’s most powerful tool for fighting climate change is its political influence,
  • In November, more than 1,000 Google workers signed a public letter calling on their employer to commit to an aggressive “company-wide climate plan” that includes canceling contracts with the fossil fuel industry and halting its donations to climate change deniers.
  • Microsoft and Amazon have come under fire from activist tech workers who have demanded that they stop supplying technology to oil and gas companies because of the polluting nature of fossil-fuel extraction.
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