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New York skyscraper owners turn to carbon capture to fight climate change (Maria)

author write“From the outside, this high-rise residential building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side looks much like any other luxury building. Doormen greet visitors in a spacious lobby decorated with tapestries and marble.” But just below that basement is an unusual set of amenities that hardly exist in any other building in New York City, in fact, in the world: Drastically reduce the emissions of a 30-story building. In an effort, the owners installed a maze of winding pipes and tanks that collect carbon dioxide from a huge gas-fired boiler in the basement before it is channeled up the chimney and released into the building’s air. The goal is to stop climate-warming gases from entering the atmosphere.”

Groups Seeking Official Party Status Warn Misleading Voters (DonkeyHotey)

author write“Maine secretary of state sends suspension and suspension letters to national organization No Labels to confuse voters who think they’re signing a petition but think they’re registering for the new party. expressed concern.”

Arizona Election Officials Documented Errors, Declared Results Wrong, Then Cashed (Reader Steve)

from Arizona Vote“Pinal County Elections Commissioner Virginia Ross had evidence of inaccuracy in not reporting the results of the November elections before the county commissioner certified them. vote beat A survey revealed. Instead, she told them she was standing by the numbers, after which she collected a $25,000 bonus. ”

New study finds higher minimum wage creates jobs (Dana)

from new york magazine: “When researchers narrowed their horizons, [at the University of California, Berkeley] In fact, they found that the effect of raising the minimum wage on employment was even more acute. Higher minimum wages were associated with larger increases in employment rather than slightly higher employment growth. ”

The end of love: AM radio is being removed from many cars (Russ)

from Washington Post: “America’s love between cars and AM radio, a century that provided the soundtrack to lovers’ lanes, kept solitary company in ball games and chat shows, sang in the family and sparked signature road trips.” The romance that spans the spectrum is a victim of rapid technological change and fast-changing consumer tastes that are on the brink of collapse.”

Manmade now outweighs Earth’s biomass (Sean)

author write“In a new study published in the journal Nature, they found [researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel] They conclude that the weight of man-made matter, called anthropogenic mass, currently exceeds or will soon exceed the mass of all other life on Earth (with ±6 years of error).

At Eurovision, Ukrainians find communities far from home (Roshni)

from new york times: “There were reminders on every corner of Liverpool this week that the northern English city is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of last year’s winners, Ukraine. , more than a year after Russia’s all-out war, the war continues to escalate – an aggression on a scale.”