Among the items in this week's Fix the News:
— Donald Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution, says the nonprofit Grist.
"The irony of Biden’s signature climate bill is states that overwhelmingly support Trump are some of the largest recipients of its funding,” says Grist.
About 66 percent of all of the spending in the bill has gone to red states, according to Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, a climate research nonprofit. “There certainly is a contingency in the Republican Party now that’s going to support keeping some of those subsidies around.”
— “How many people could tell you that, over the course of America’s campaign cycle, we passed the line where humans are installing a gigawatt’s worth — a nuclear power plant’s worth — of solar panels each day? Not many, I think, because when I supply that news to crowds of (environmentally interested) people they audibly gasp in pleasure,” says environmentalist and author Bill McKibben in the Columbia Journalism Review.
California has used a quarter less natural gas to generate electricity this year than last year because its solar panels and batteries have achieved critical mass, he says.
A quarter less natural gas in a year in California — the world’s fifth-largest economy — “is the biggest single bite yet taken out of the eventual temperature of the Earth, and yet it is passing mostly unnoticed,” McKibben says.
— Out of 10 states with ballot initiatives this year to guarantee abortion rights in their state constitutions, seven states approved them, says NPR.
For example, Missouri was the first state to ban abortion — even in cases of rape and only with an exception for medical emergencies. Abortion access now will be guaranteed up to the point of fetal viability (generally the 24th week of pregnancy).
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