Masks Work to Fight Covid
Mask-wearing cuts Covid incidence by 53%, says a global study.
Biden's Booming Economy
Joe Biden's economy has created more jobs in 11 months than the GOP created in their last three presidencies combined. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says it underestimated June-Sept job growth by 626,000 jobs, the largest underestimate in BLS history. The US is the only leading economy where real household income (which accounts for inflation) and real GDP are higher than before the pandemic. Unemployment is now down to 4.6 percent and is expected to hit a 50-year low next year, and the Dow is over 35,700. Biodiversity Wins in the Infrastructure Bill
The Biden infrastructure bill invests $40 billion into pots of funding that will go toward projects related to natural infrastructure and conservation. Among the investments: $350 million for infrastructure to help wildlife safely navigate existing road infrastructure thanks to overpasses, underpasses, and fencing; $8 billion for flood resilience and wildfire prevention and management; $130 million per year for growing back some of the trees lost to wildfires; $15 billion to reclaim abandoned mines and cap orphaned oil and gas wells that pollute water and federal lands; $800 million for removing, replacing, and restoring old culverts which will help both roads, fish, and other aquatic life; and $1.5 billion for the EPA to help protect the Great Lakes, the Chesapeake Bay, the Puget Sound, the Delaware River Basin, and the Klamath River Basin.
A New Head of the National Park Service
Senate confirms Charles Sams III as National Park Service Director after years of an acting head. Sams most recently served on the Northwest Power and Conservation Council and is an enrolled member of the Cayuse and Walla Walla of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and the first Native American to lead the National Park Service.
Senate confirms Charles Sams III as National Park Service Director after years of an acting head. Sams most recently served on the Northwest Power and Conservation Council and is an enrolled member of the Cayuse and Walla Walla of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and the first Native American to lead the National Park Service.
A Maryland Native Fish Is Probably Extinct
The Maryland Darter hasn’t been spotted in 33 years. The state’s sole endemic vertebrate, it seems to have lived only in single creek off the Susquehanna River in Harford County, Northeast of Baltimore. Now, wildlife officials are ready to declare it extinct. It seems to have always been rare, haveing been discovered in 1912 by Cornell University biologists, and unseen again for another 50 years. It has been listed as endangered since 1967.Ocean Fishing and Global Warming
A study published in March in the journal Nature found that bottom trawling emits 1.47 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year — as much as the entire aviation industry. Emissions from wild lobster and shrimp fishing alone are often larger than livestock farming, according to a 2018 Nature Climate Change study, because of an extra step not taken on land: hauling the catch back to shore by using boats that burn large amounts of fuel.A Best Bet on Netflix
"Colin, in Black & White" on Netflix is astounding, educational, entertaining, and good.White Privilege
White privilege is your history being taught as a requirement and "their" history being taught as an elective.
Beyond Meat, a vegetarian meat substitute, now has $296 million in cumulative losses on the balance sheet. I warned that the product was problematic back in August.
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