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“States that have passed laws allowing the systems to be sold require them to be certified by organizations like UL Solutions, a company that tests, validates and sets standards for various products.” 3/3
Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. BackyardsTen U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits or electricians.www.nytimes.com“Plug-in systems get around many of the hassles of conventional rooftop solar. But despite the enthusiasm for the technology, no plug-in solar system has yet been certified as safe to use in the United States.” 2/3
Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. BackyardsTen U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits or electricians.www.nytimes.com"The haze is expected to continue through the night, and even to worsen in some places, as the same heat dome that is pushing temperatures close to 100 degrees across much of eastern Canada and the United States traps the smoke from faraway wildfires close to the ground." 3/3
Wildfire Smoke Spreads Across the Northeast as Temperatures SpikeA heat dome is responsible for miserably high temperatures, and it’s also helping to push smoke from wildfires to the east.www.nytimes.com"New York City on Wednesday night smelled of smoke and the sky turned a faint orange as air polluted by wildfires from Canada and the Great Lakes slipped across the Northeast, prompting alerts about poor air quality." 2/3
Wildfire Smoke Spreads Across the Northeast as Temperatures SpikeA heat dome is responsible for miserably high temperatures, and it’s also helping to push smoke from wildfires to the east.www.nytimes.com"At one point during the meeting, the executives began complaining about the Climate Superfund bills that had recently passed in Vermont and New York. As they spoke, Trump’s policy adviser, Stephen Miller was texting the attorney general Pam Bondi. 'I’m on it,' Miller told the group." 4/4
Climate: An extraordinary White House meetingA new book sheds light on President Trump’s affinity for fossil fuels.www.nytimes.com"In the new book 'Regime Change,' they provide an account of that meeting that sheds additional light on Trump’s affinity for fossil fuels and his willingness to exert presidential power." 3/4
Climate: An extraordinary White House meetingA new book sheds light on President Trump’s affinity for fossil fuels.www.nytimes.com"Few details emerged from the March 2025 meeting at the time, leaving many to wonder what exactly had transpired. Now, our colleagues Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have answers." 2/4
Climate: An extraordinary White House meetingA new book sheds light on President Trump’s affinity for fossil fuels.www.nytimes.com"In the past weeks, two of just a handful of advanced recycling sites in the United States have suspended operations ... "Both closures followed environmental violations cited by state regulators involving harmful air pollution and hazardous waste." 2/2
Advanced Recycling Hits a Rough Patchwww.nytimes.com“The mechanism is straightforward. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, when released into the atmosphere, act like a blanket, trapping the sun’s heat. This has been raising temperatures worldwide for more than a century.” 2/2
Hotter, more frequent and longer-lasting: climate change’s influence on heat waves.www.nytimes.comWhile the extreme heat in Europe isn’t traveling across the Atlantic to directly set off the heat waves in the United States and Canada, the events are intimately linked through the same global atmospheric patterns. 2/2
First Europe, Then North America: Welcome to Heat Dome Summer.www.nytimes.comBut it would have been even rarer in the 2000s, when the world was roughly 1.1 degree Fahrenheit cooler than it is now. And it would have been “virtually impossible” half a century ago, when the planet was 2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler, the researchers wrote in a report. 3/3
Is Climate Change Fueling Europe’s Heat Wave? Yes, Researchers Say.www.nytimes.comAfter examining decades of temperature records, a team of scientists has concluded that a hot spell as intense as this week’s, over such a large stretch of Europe, was still rare for June in today’s climate, with a less than 1 percent chance of appearing in any given year. 2/3
Is Climate Change Fueling Europe’s Heat Wave? Yes, Researchers Say.www.nytimes.com“The Ecologists, a green party, is proposing paid time off for those most exposed to climate disruptions, while decades of cultural resistance to air conditioning seems finally to be on the wane.” 3/3
To Escape Record Heat, the French Are Taking to Water. Both Have Been Deadly.www.nytimes.com“Many in France still recall the summer of 2003, when nearly 15,000 people in the country, most of them older, died in a freak heat wave. That prompted recurring debates about how to weatherproof French society.” 2/3
To Escape Record Heat, the French Are Taking to Water. Both Have Been Deadly.www.nytimes.com