Nurses in Pennsylvania fought to secure the nation’s first countywide 12-week paid parental leave policy
After watching parents return to work while their babies were still in intensive care, Pittsburgh nurses joined with a coalition of working parents, advocates, and some elected leaders to draft a proposal for a paid leave program in Allegheny County.
And they just won — the Allegheny County Council voted 11 to 4 to pass 12 weeks of paid parental leave — the first county-level paid leave policy in the nation.
Both birthing and non-birthing parents will receive three months of paid parental leave within the first year of childbirth, adoption, foster placement, or a stillbirth, with job and health benefits protection.
Why is this good news? The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn’t offer any parental leave. The policy these nurses and advocates just got passed could serve as an inflection point for others to do the same.
New York City is getting a new fleet of electric school buses.It’s part of an ongoing initiative showing how the city can replace thousands of its polluting diesel buses with cleaner models in a way that benefits the stressed-out urban grid rather than overwhelming it.
China’s first national parks have already dramatically improved the surrounding environment
In October 2021, China officially established its first five national parks. And new data shows they’ve achieved incredible progress in improving key ecosystems and rising populations of flagship species.
The parks cover a combined area of 230,000 square kilometers, integrating more than 120 protected areas. The parks have helped speed up the restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, lakes, and deserts, restore habitats and ecological corridors, and more.
Wildlife conservation has seen significant improvements: Wild Siberian tigers rose from 27 to 72, and the wild Amur leopard population has risen from 42 to 115.
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