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🇰🇷 Last week, federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people, primarily South Korean nationals, at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. The South Korean president announced that they will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight.
💨 Rhode Island and Connecticut are suing the Trump administration over its decision to halt construction on a massive offshore wind farm that had been 80% complete with a stop-work order that would threaten jobs, clean energy, and billions in investments.
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For the first time, scientists traced heat waves back to individual fossil fuel companies
In new research that pushes the boundaries of extreme weather event research in multiple ways, scientists have quantified causal links between worsening heat waves and pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies.
Looking at 213 heat waves from around the world between 2000 to 2023, it found that they became more frequent, likely, and severe, in large part due to burning fossil fuels. Between the first and second decades, climate change made heatwaves jump from being 20 times more likely to 200 times.
The researchers said as many as a quarter of the extreme heat events would have been “virtually impossible” without the pollution from any of the 14 largest fossil fuel and cement producers, including ExxonMobil and Chevron.
Why is this good news? While individual studies have explored links between climate change and extreme weather events, this latest study connects them in a new, important way. The conclusions could help those looking to make oil and gas companies pay for climate change-related damages, which has historically been difficult to prove.
A Michigan man is walking nearly 1,500 miles to Miami to raise funds and awareness about mental health
On a nearly 1,500-mile journey from West Michigan to South Florida, Lee Johns is carrying a 60-pound pack with essential supplies and a simple message: “Nobody should have to face their mental health battles alone.”
Johns himself has faced mental health struggles, as have several of his family members, and was frustrated that “it just never really gets addressed.” So he wanted to do something.
In addition to sparking conversations and raising awareness for mental health along the way — both in-person and on social media — Johns is raising money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which provides education, support, advocacy, and resources for individuals, families, and communities.
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