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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Complex Task Facing the Kyle Rittenhouse Jury</strong> - The panel may consider lesser charges when determining whether the teen-ager committed crimes or acted in self- defense. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-complex-task-facing-the-kyle-rittenhouse-jury">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Europe’s Migration Crisis, Born in Belarus</strong> - “Europe’s last dictator” won’t hold on to power forever. But he has invented a new weapon. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/europes-migration-crisis-born-in-belarus">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Britney Spears Got Free, and What Comes Next</strong> - Spears fought for years to end the conservatorship she was under, and finally won. But the legal battles aren’t over. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-britney-spears-got-free-and-what-comes-next">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Piss and Power in “Succession”</strong> - In the latest episode of the HBO series, Logan Roy’s urinary-tract infection is not just a plot point but a motif that can help us understand the show more broadly. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/piss-and-power-in-succession">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Republicans Are Distorting Inflation and Supply-Chain Problems</strong> - Prices are surging for reasons largely beyond Joe Biden’s control, but that won’t stop G.O.P. cries of “Bidenflation.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/inflation-and-the-great-global-logjam">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The architecture trend dividing London’s elites</strong> -
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Underground lairs have hollowed out London.
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One of London’s most unusual and extravagant luxury trends might be its gigantic basements.
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Newcastle University professor Roger Burrows and his co-authors <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/news/item/bunkering-down/">collected data</a> on every London basement construction project from 2008 to 2019 and mapped it. They found that more than 7,000 basement additions had been built in an 11-year span. These basements were classified in the research as standard, large, and mega-basements — the latter containing multiple levels and extending beyond the footprint of the house. A combination of historic preservation laws, rapidly ballooning property values, and changing tastes has led to a boom in basement construction for the city’s wealthiest homeowners.
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This construction hasn’t been <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8908815/Chelsea-mansion-collapses-building-work-create-mega-
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basement-6m-property.html">without complications</a>. Many London residents see the constant construction as a “plague” that has hollowed out the city, contributed to air pollution, and even changed the acoustics of their homes. Prof. Burrows sees it as a symbol of increasing wealth inequality in the global city.
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You can find this video and the entire library of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA"><strong>Vox’s videos on YouTube</strong></a>.
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<li><strong>States have the power to make or break the infrastructure law</strong> -
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President Joe Biden speaks about the recently passed $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at the Port of Baltimore on November 10, 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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They’ll have significant discretion over how much of the funding will be spent.
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Now that President Joe Biden has signed the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684">Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act</a> (also known as the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF) into law, the federal government faces a new challenge: getting the funds out to states and cities.
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In the coming months — and years —<strong> </strong>federal agencies will distribute billions of dollars for everything from bridge repairs to public transit expansions to bike paths. Most of this money will go directly to state governments, which will have significant discretion over which projects they’d like to fund.
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The state officials who oversee most <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/its-time-for-states-to-invest-in-infrastructure">civilian infrastructure projects</a> will soon face tough decisions about which communities will get this money. Because the bill doesn’t include enough funding to cover the entirety of the country’s infrastructure needs, states and other regional entities will have to decide which roads get repaired, which lead pipes get replaced, and which bridges get restored, a process that has in the past left certain low-income communities and communities of color with poor access to adequate infrastructure.
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Communities will begin receiving infrastructure funding in the course of the next year. Many programs that are being funded, like the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund or the Highway Safety Improvement Program, already exist, so officials can use established channels to distribute the money. Other initiatives, however, like a program to establish a national network of electric vehicle chargers, are newer and could take a year, or more, to set up.
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While much of the bill’s funding will be distributed to states, the legislation also includes a substantial amount of money (<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-infrastructure-bill-changes-the-way-road-transit-dollars-will-
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flow-11636281003">at least $120 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal</a>) that’s under the jurisdiction of the federal government, which doesn’t typically have much authority over infrastructure projects. Part of this funding will be doled out through competitive grants, giving officials at federal agencies more of a voice in the decisions.
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So far, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/politics/biden-infrastructure-bill-spending-
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economy/index.html">the Department of Transportation has estimated</a> that states could receive funding in as soon as six months. This timing, though, will vary significantly depending on the program.
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Beyond the timing and logistics of distributing the money, federal and state officials are also expected to face a major challenge in making sure this new funding addresses racial inequities. Past infrastructure measures have failed to tackle this issue, and have, at times exacerbated existing problems. Because the states will control most of the funding, they’ll be the ones largely determining how to acknowledge these disparities, if at all.
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“Not only will states have discretion over revolving funds and highway dollars, but there’s a big question of what they choose to fund,” says Adie Tomer, a senior metropolitan policy fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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States will have a lot of discretion on what projects are funded
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The specifics of how any individual project is funded will vary significantly depending on the type of initiative — whether it is public transit or drinking water or roads — however, the distribution of money will broadly work in the same way.
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First, the money laid out in the legislation will be allocated to specific federal agencies that work on different policy areas, giving them the authority to distribute this money. The Department of Transportation has jurisdiction over the bulk of the funds and will oversee money for highways, public transit, and rail. The Environmental Protection Agency will oversee funding for drinking water and wastewater projects, including the replacement of lead pipes. The Department of Commerce will oversee funding for broadband deployment. The Department of Energy will oversee funding for the electric grid and clean energy investments. And the Department of Interior will oversee water management and natural disaster resilience.
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Then, these agencies will send most of this money to state governments in the form of grants or loans over the next five years.
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The funding distributed to states will be based predominately on formulas that the federal government has already calculated. These formulas attempt to take into account the individual needs and conditions in a given area in a standardized way.
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Each year, the federal government allocates money for things like road repairs, wastewater projects, and rail updates. That money is determined for each state based on different characteristics including the number of people who live there as well as the infrastructure that’s present: If, say, a state has denser public transit networks already, it might get more funding on that front.
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<a href="https://www.enotrans.org/article/fhwa-gives-out-2b-in-fy20-general-fund-highway-formula-
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funding/">Take, for example, the funding for clean drinking water</a>: How much money a given state gets for water infrastructure is determined using a formula with a few key variables including the results of a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dwsrf/epas-6th-drinking-water-infrastructure-needs-survey-and-assessment">Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment</a> conducted by the EPA. That survey synthesizes data from water utilities, state water employees, and EPA experts to put a dollar value on states’ water sourcing, treatment, storage, and distribution needs. Using formulas such as these, the federal government tries to send the bulk of its money to places where there are both a lot of people and a lot of need.
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In August, the White House estimated more populous states like California, Texas, and New York are expected to get the lion’s share of the new infrastructure funding given the way these formulas work. These states will respectively receive about $44.6 billion, $35.4 billion, and $26.9 billion each, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/31/infrastructure-bill-map-which-states-get-the-most-
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money.html">according to a CNBC analysis</a>.
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To decide which cities and towns will receive the new federal money, states are expected to call on localities to compete for various grants and loans. To access drinking water funding, for example, cities and towns already apply to state agencies each year, and then officials decide what projects will get funding based on need.
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By and large, there’s a lot of variability when it comes to how each state determines which communities do — and don’t — get this money. And that variability is expected to be seen with the new infrastructure money as well.
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“The bill doesn’t overly dictate what projects to execute,” Tomer said.
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In making their decisions, the states will be forced to make real tradeoffs. While the infrastructure bill is a massive investment, it’s far from enough to address the entirety of the country’s needs. State officials will be forced to make tough choices about where limited investments should go.
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Volunteers distribute pallets of bottled water to residents at the Abundant Life Church of God in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on October 19. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered a whole-of-government response to elevated levels of lead in tap water in Benton Harbor.
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For example, the bill allocates $15 billion specifically for replacing the US’s lead pipes. It’s estimated that it would actually take at least $60 billion to actually fix all of the country’s lead pipe issues — and so communities will inevitably be left with lead in their water, despite the improvements the bill will deliver to others. Issues like broadband access and public transit repairs face similar funding shortfalls.
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Funding hasn’t always been equitably distributed in the past — and that could happen again
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Besides whether communities will be left behind due to a lack of available money, another major concern across these programs is whether infrastructure funding will be equitably distributed and targeted to communities that most need it.
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In the past, infrastructure funds — including everything from highway investments to drinking water support — haven’t reached communities of color at the same level as predominately white communities. <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/report-racial-disparities-afflict-epa-drinking-water-funds/">A 2021 review of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund</a>, for instance, found that states were less likely to allocate this money to more diverse communities.
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nation">As Angela Glover Blackwell and Anita Cozart</a> wrote for the Urban Institute in 2018, past infrastructure legislation has shut out communities of color. They cite, for example, a 1956 bill that boosted funding for roads and highways focused on “investments [that] prioritized white families and suburban communities rich with jobs, good schools, playgrounds, and other resources, while leaving black inner-city families mired in poverty and disconnected from opportunity.”
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Beyond pouring money into certain communities and not others, previous infrastructure investments have also actively harmed many residents. The 1956 law, which helped <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/06/22/addressing-the-racial-inequities-of-the-interstate-highway-
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system">establish the interstate highway system</a>, displaced many Black Americans’ homes to make way for highway construction, and established roads that divided neighborhoods.
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Because states still have so much discretion over significant swaths of this money, experts note racial disparities could again arise in how money is spent — and there are limited guardrails to prevent this from happening.
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“Do you think [Florida Republican Gov.] Ron DeSantis is going to prioritize racial equity in his distribution of federal infrastructure dollars?” Kevin DeGood, the head of the Center for American Progress’s infrastructure policy team, asked, in reference to comments <a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/471820-desantis-buttigieg-racist-roads/">DeSantis has made</a> that questioned whether highways perpetuated racial disparities in the past.
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The estimated $120 billion in funding overseen by the federal government will operate slightly differently than the state funds. US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has already noted that equity — including a focus on historically “underserved” communities — will be a key factor in the distribution of this money.
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To access that funding, state and local governments will have to apply directly to federal agencies, which can then decide to prioritize projects that may be more in line with the Biden administration’s #Justice40 commitment. This initiative hopes to send 40 percent of federal investments to disadvantaged communities.
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Overall, however, equity and availability concerns mean that the infrastructure bill — though historic — will not be all things to all people, and will not solve every community’s challenges. And rather than usher in sweeping change, Americans will likely see incremental improvements in their roads, water, internet access, airports, and power grids over time, some of those changes beginning as soon as months from now, but others becoming reality toward the second half of the decade.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> signed into law on Monday a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oAy7k0Zi1Ei9K-30-_bEjfj8FS84CPyUaFmMytZSj4c/edit#gid=0">$350 billion</a> to address long-ignored environmental threats. The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-
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advances-environmental-justice/">Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act</a> is the largest sum in recent memory directed at cleaning up pollution, from replacing lead pipes to capping methane-spewing oil wells.
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The funding could make a serious dent in air and water pollution for certain communities by preventing runoff from abandoned mines and cleaning up old, toxic manufacturing sites. People who live near busy roadways, airports, and ports may benefit from the boost to electric vehicle charging stations, school buses, and cranes that will replace gas- and diesel-burning cars and equipment.
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Other investments will improve public health more indirectly: One of the law’s major provisions includes expanding transmission that can move more clean energy across the grid. By increasing the mix of renewables, states and the utilities they regulate ultimately would need to burn fewer fossil fuels to power the economy.
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The biggest criticism of the new law is what it leaves out: Environmental advocates say the funding only meets a fraction of the nation’s <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CYKPJaRLliKBn3oUZkCCUGzpDrMFNy85iEVyd-JSudk/edit">needs</a> for addressing water and air pollution, and falls far short of the transformative change Biden promised on the campaign trail.
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This is also not the transformative climate bill that climate activists had hoped for. And some of the investments will worsen carbon emissions — the funding for highway construction, for example, could increase pollution in the short term because of the heavy machinery and manufacturing involved. Racial justice advocates<strong> </strong>tell Vox they are also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-infrastructure-deal-threatens-
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undercut-key-environmental-law-2021-09-29/">concerned</a> that the law amends their key tool, the National Environmental Policy Act, in ways that will make it harder to protest future fossil fuel pipelines, highways, and petrochemical sites.
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Because of this mixed bag, an <a href="https://repeatproject.org/docs/REPEAT_Preliminary_Report_102021.pdf">analysis</a> by Princeton University finds that the new infrastructure law only reduces carbon emissions by 1 percent by 2030 compared to peak levels, an infinitesimal drop in the bucket compared to the cuts needed over the coming decade. The far more important investments for climate change remain in the Build Back Better reconciliation bill that still faces an uncertain fate in Congress.
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But while the country waits and sees if Democrats will pass the larger climate investments of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22752414/reconciliation-bill-biden-build-back-better-spending">Build Back Better Act</a>, it’s worth looking at the serious ways the infrastructure law can improve environmental health<strong> </strong>in certain communities. It’s a down payment that can help, explained American Lung Association’s senior vice president of advocacy Paul Billings. “Cleaning up pollution can help to reduce at least part of the burden that these communities are facing,” Billings said.
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Here are the major ways the bill can make a difference.
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Cleaner air next to some busy roads, rail routes, and ports
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Ever been hit by a blast of exhaust from a tailpipe when a bus passes by? That is diesel, a carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization. It contains hazardous air pollutants like nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and benzene,<strong> </strong>which all contribute to unhealthy air that more than <a href="https://www.lung.org/getmedia/17c6cb6c-8a38-42a7-a3b0-6744011da370/sota-2021.pdf">41 percent</a> of Americans breathe in.
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Heavy machinery and equipment — like big trucks, freight-carrying ferries, and cranes that keep the supply chain running smoothly — are among the most polluting parts of the transportation sector. People who live by highways, freight rail, and ports are the most exposed to higher levels of all kinds of toxic pollutants than the rest of the population because they’re so close to the source: the tailpipe.
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The infrastructure law makes the biggest federal investment yet in electrifying the transportation sector. By adding more electric-powered machinery fueled by an increasingly clean electricity sector, communities near ports and highways would face less smog and particulate matter.
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The $7.5 billion for electric vehicle chargers helps with one major obstacle to getting more electric cars on the road. Other investments modernize some public transit lines and add lower-emissions buses and rail to fleets. And $17 billion goes to curbing pollution near ports by electrifying more diesel-burning equipment like tug boats, cranes, and freight trucks.
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Addressing kids’ exposure to polluting school buses
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Ninety-five percent of the nation’s school buses run on diesel. That leaves more than <a href="https://www.wri.org/insights/where-electric-school-buses-us">20 million</a> kids exposed to pollutants from bus exhaust every school day, whether they are riding them, standing next to an idling bus, or walking to school. Adults living in nearby communities aren’t immune to the lung and brain damage caused by diesel either.
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The law devotes $2.5 billion to electrifying school buses, a sum that will only begin to transform the nation’s school fleets. Though experts don’t have an exact number for how many buses this sum would replace, it will be far less than the 20 percent Biden originally hoped to electrify with $20 billion. There’s even more money, $5 billion, in the still-unfinished Build Back Better bill to electrify trucks and school buses.
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Building more transmission lines that will deliver renewable energy
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The United States needs to produce more clean energy, and find better ways to store solar and wind, to meet the nation’s energy demands while also meeting climate targets. It also needs more transmission lines to transport renewable power to businesses, homes, and all those charging stations powering those newly electrified cars and buses on the road. The infrastructure law devotes $65 billion to updating the electric grid, including building <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/business/energy-
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environment/biden-climate-transmission-lines.html">thousands of miles</a><strong> </strong>of new lines.
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Since bringing more renewables onto the power grid is key to cutting demand for and dependence on coal, oil, and gas, this funding will indirectly help clean up the air. Less coal burned, for instance, means less residual toxic waste, less mercury and sulfur in the air, and less ozone.
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Replacing lead pipes and addressing PFAS contamination
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There are three major ways the law cleans up drinking water: by addressing lead pipes, beginning to address PFAS contamination, and improving aging sewage systems that dump contaminants in waterways.
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The law includes $15 billion for replacing lead pipes used for drinking water (the Build Back Better Act has another nearly $10 billion). Flint, Michigan’s, lead pollution crisis has made national news since 2014, and it’s far from the only majority-Black city that has <a href="https://www.vox.com/22620076/jackson-mississippi-water-
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infrastructure-bill">had undrinkable water</a>. “There’s a very long list of states and localities waiting for this funding,” said Sierra Club’s senior federal climate policy director Liz Perera.
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The law also makes another $10 billion investment in cleaning up PFAS, a class of “forever chemicals” commonly found in drinking water. It increases the EPA’s funds for state grants to test for and treat PFAS that ends up in drinking water and to prevent PFAS runoff in wastewater.
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Finally, the law spends $30 billion starting to revamp city sewage systems and wastewater management. Severe floods, worsened by climate change, keep overwhelming parts of the country with sewage systems not equipped to handle the deluge. For example, Louisiana officials in September <a href="https://www.wbrz.com/news/amid-severe-flooding-and-few-options-nola-
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officials-dump-untreated-sewage-into-mississippi-river/">dumped raw sewage</a> into waterways during hurricanes to avoid inundating homes. This is one of the infrastructure law’s most significant investments in preparing communities for worsening climate change.
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As my colleague Li Zhou reported, the effectiveness of these programs <a href="https://www.vox.com/22620076/jackson-mississippi-water-infrastructure-bill">will come down</a> to how the EPA distributes the funding to states for implementation.
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There are so many abandoned mines and old oil and gas wells in the country that have been ignored for so long that there is only a rough guess of how many exist. The true number is probably somewhere more than <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-abandoned-specialreport/special-report-
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millions-of-abandoned-oil-wells-are-leaking-methane-a-climate-menace-idUSKBN23N1NL">3 million</a> for a century of widespread fossil fuel production.
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At some of these sites, you can literally see the rusted pumpjacks and leaking tanks abandoned by now-defunct drillers. The more invisible menace is the emissions that escape from an uncapped well. These open sites <a href="https://grist.org/abandoned-oil-gas-wells-permian-texas-new-
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mexico/">leach</a> the climate pollutant and smog-contributor methane, plus a host of other chemicals, into groundwater and the atmosphere. So $16 billion in the infrastructure bill is a major boost to the Abandoned Mine Land Program that has been <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-climate-change-coronavirus-pandemic-environment-
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pollution-9b97e1b2cb7e652ffe04ce35ddae8bb8">running</a> on just $8 billion in funding stretched over four decades.
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waste-superfund-sites-climate-threats-n1252276">neglected</a> the EPA’s trust fund that cleans up toxic former industrial and waste sites, and communities of color bear most of the burden of that neglect: As Brian Deese, the White House director of the National Economic Council, <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianDeeseNEC/status/1457736914203783169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1457736914203783169%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=about%3Asrcdoc">tweeted</a>, 26 percent of Black Americans and 29 percent of Hispanic Americans live within three miles of a Superfund site. Biden inherited a list of 34 of these Superfund sites and a list of more than 1,000 backlogged projects.
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deal">inject</a> $3.5 billion into the EPA’s bankrupt Superfund Clean-up fund and $1.5 billion into EPA’s brownfields clean-up via the new infrastructure law. More importantly, an <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-bid-to-
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revive-superfund-tax-survived-infrastructure-talks/">expired tax </a>on chemical manufacturers that Congress let lapse 25 years ago will be revived.
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Ultimately, the infrastructure law’s true impact will fall to how it is implemented by the Biden administration and future administrations. Enforcement of environmental laws will matter in many cases as much as the law itself. Though the infrastructure law does not single out communities most in need, federal agencies will likely need to comply with President Biden’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-
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home-and-abroad-create-jobs-and-restore-scientific-integrity-across-federal-government/">executive order</a> that at least 40 percent of the money would flow to communities that have faced systemic racism and pollution.
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Community environmental activists are eager to see what the new law finally means for their fight to clean up long-ignored toxic waste sites and hazardous sources of dirty air. For instance, Teri Blanton, a longtime grassroots organizer with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and the Alliance for Appalachia, looks forward to the law’s investment in clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. The abandoned and active coal mines that run through eastern Kentucky make it one of the areas that stands to benefit. But, she told Vox, “I hope some of that comes back to the people of Appalachia.”
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Hope we don’t have to play in bubbles for too much longer: Southee</strong> - In less than 72 hours after playing the T20 World Cup final against Australia in Dubai, New Zealand play India in a three-match bilateral series in a space of five days</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>India vs New Zealand 1st T20 | India look for fresh T20 template in Rohit-Dravid era</strong> - Tim Southee will lead the visitors in the absence of the rested Kane Williamson</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Seven Australian cities will host ICC T20 World Cup 2022</strong> - Two cities which will in all likelihood host the Round 1 matches include Geelong and Hobart, with the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground hosting the final on November 13</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Watch was worth ₹1.5 crore and not ₹5 crore, voluntarily declared items brought by me: Hardik Pandya</strong> - While Hardik Pandya was making the declaration of the imported goods bought, it was found that the price of the watches, as per bills submitted, didn’t match the actual value, which is believed to be much more</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An impact beyond the football pitch</strong> - How Mohamed Salah is influencing public perceptions about Muslims and Islam in general</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Small-city mayor arrested in big revenge-porn case, faces 50 criminal charges</strong> - Cambridge, Md. mayor allegedly posted nudes on Reddit with racial slurs in captions. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1813203">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Russia may have just shot down its own satellite, creating a huge debris cloud [Updated]</strong> - “This test will significantly increase the risk to astronauts and cosmonauts.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1813140">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Surprise: Halo Infinite’s free multiplayer mode is available right now</strong> - Plus 70 new backward-compatible games from older Xbox consoles. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1813141">link</a></p></li>
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“Actually, I was out of butter when you told me your method, so I used Crisco instead. I liked it so much I used it as a lubricant ever since.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JamesBong1"> /u/JamesBong1 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/quxaw5/no_nut_november_is_going_great_so_far/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/quxaw5/no_nut_november_is_going_great_so_far/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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