Big US investment companies are pushing strongly for fossil fuels.

Cambridge University accepted a donation from Shell for research in oil extraction.

It appears that part of the donation is for research in other areas. Perhaps that part is good. But no one should do research on improving oil extraction, because regardless of the details its long-term effect will be to prolong oil extraction when what the world needs is to shut it down.

Three pension funds (in California and Colorado) lost a lot of money over the past decade by investing in fossil fuels. Employees whose pensions the funds manage are demanding an end to this.

In the long term, fossil fuel companies are bad investments because investing in the possible collapse of civilization can't be profitable for more than a few. But we must not leave it to chance that fossil fuel extraction winds down. We must make sure of it.

PFAS chemicals that can increase cancer rates even at tiny levels have been detected in over 1300 US water supply systems.

With carcinogens, whether any person gets cancer is a matter of chance, and a higher dose means a higher chance. Thus, the standard for level of PFAS is a matter of what additional chance is acceptable. If everyone has a 25% chance of getting cancer sooner or later, is it acceptable for PFAS in the water to increase that to 25.1%? Maybe, Increasing it to 30%, clearly not.

The article reports that in New Jersey nearly all the systems which had PFAS had them at a level that might medically significant.

It would be interesting to report how many such water supply systems exist in the US, and how many of them have been tested. This testing seems to be a new practice, so I expect that the vast majority have never been tested. I wonder what fraction of the water systems tested were found to have PFAS.

11,000 scientists have presented the science that shows there is a climate emergency and what it consists of.

The Koch brothers are lobbying heavily against bills that would make the US take action to curb global heating.

US citizens: call on the House of Representatives to pass the Climate Displaced Persons Act.

The proverb says that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but allowing climate refugees is not even a cure for the eco-illness of global heating. It is merely a treatment. We know how to prevent global heating disaster, so prevention must take priority.