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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, November 5.
- Climate Promises by Businesses Face New Scrutiny
- UN climate chief encouraged by progress at COP26, warns of ‘catastrophic’ consequences of inaction
- Want to make renewable energy cheap? Build it quickly, not gradually (“The road to cheaper, cleaner energy is a fast lane, not a slow burn — and there’s a simple economic explanation”)
- COP26: Emissions of rich put climate goals at risk – study
- ‘Luxury carbon consumption’ of top 1% threatens 1.5C global heating limit
- Only 2% Of Great Barrier Reef Has Escaped Coral Bleaching, Study Finds
- Will Brazil really save the Amazon? (They’d better!)
- Boris Johnson’s Fickle Climate Leadership
- Over 40 Countries Pledge at U.N. Climate Summit to End Use of Coal Power (“The United States did not agree to stop coal development at home but promised to halt overseas funding of oil, gas and coal.”)
- Greta Thunberg to join thousands at youth climate march
- Earth’s lakes are warming at a feverish pace, with the Great Lakes leading the way (That’s really, REALLY bad.)
- Glasgow pledges may be enough to cap global warming below 2°C, IEA says
- Could Ethiopia’s capital fall to Tigrayan and allied forces?
- In world’s first approval of a pill to treat covid, British regulators authorize Merck’s molnupiravir
- Italy’s First Climate Lawsuit Seeks Bold Emissions Target in Effort to Protect the Planet and Human Rights (“The Giudizio Universale lawsuit heads to court in December. It is one of many climate cases initiated by civil society in more than 40 countries around the world.”)
- Floating Wind Farms Are About to Transform the Oceans
- China’s Xi Jinping, preparing for a third term, shuts the door on the past
- No one wants a war over Taiwan. But that won’t last forever.
- Indigenous Women in Peru Seek to Turn the Tables on Big Oil, Asserting ‘Rights of Nature’ to Fight Epic Spills (“Their lawsuit demands protection for the Marañón River from Lot1AB, an oilfield carved into the Amazon Rainforest with nearly 2,000 contaminated sites.”)
- How to save the Amazon: what they are saying at U.N. climate talks
- By lifting some of Trump’s European tariffs, Biden prepares for competition against China
- Pfizer Says Covid-19 Pill Is 89% Effective in Preliminary Study
- Federal Government Cuts Ties With Troubled Vaccine Maker (“Emergent BioSolutions ruined millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Now its $600 million deal is canceled.”)
- There’s more demand for boosters than first shots of the COVID vaccine
- Joe Biden Is Facing a Legal Avalanche Over His COVID Vaccine Mandate
- Biden Aide Tests Positive for Virus After Summit in Scotland
- Facebook ‘Knew What It Was Doing,’ Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Says
- October’s jobs report is expected to show a rebound in hiring as Covid cases declined
- Biden works the phones as House Democrats eye Friday votes on his two big bills
- House Set to Vote Friday on Biden’s $1.75 Trillion Economic Plan
- Preliminary Estimates Show Build Back Better Legislation Will Reduce Deficits
- House sets up Friday votes for Biden agenda
- Don’t look now, but is the story becoming … Dems in array? (“…all of a sudden, one potential dealbreaking conflict after another has crept closer to resolution. These conflicts have long sat right on top of the ideological fault lines that divided the factions, yet little by little, those divides are getting closed. This is the case in three areas: the deficit; the provisions curbing prescription drugs; and state and local tax deductions, or SALT.”)
- Democrats, It’s Time to Get Moving
- Memo to Democrats: Be loud and be proud
- Historically Black colleges and universities could see historic funding under Biden plan
- Energy efficiency is a good substitute for long-term storage, NREL study says (“Reducing building energy usage by about 60% is key to a least-cost 100% renewable energy grid, the study found.”)
- Unlocking the Transition: Biden, Congress aim to fill gap from clean electricity plan’s demise (“Reps. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) are pushing what is being touted as a bipartisan effort to provide an alternative to the CEPP by creating a clean energy standard for electric utilities that would prove palatable to members of both parties.”)
- The Democratic Turnout Myth Unravels (That seems overstated.)
- Biden and Trump Both Lost This Week
- What Democrats Need to Realize Before 2022
- 200 House Republicans vote to allow age discrimination against job applicants
- Justice Dept. Sues Texas Over Voting Restrictions
- Republicans found a new phony ‘issue’ to demagogue. They should be so proud.
- Democrats ramp up filibuster talks after voting rights setback
- Minneapolis’s police reform defeat can’t end the push to reimagine public safety in America
- January 6 committee acts on multiple fronts in a race against time
- Timeline of the coup: How Trump tried to weaponize the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election
- Judge Seems Skeptical Of Trump’s Attempt To Cover Up His Role In The Jan. 6 Insurrection
- Deposition video shows Trump allies under oath discussing debunked election fraud claims
- Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events
- Judge in trial of Arbery slaying says nothing he can do about 11 white people on jury of 12
- Fringe right-wing media and conspiracy theorists spread antisemitic disinformation about the Pandora Papers(“Antisemitic conspiracy theories are being weaponized to discredit consequential reports exposing financial corruption, criminal facilitation, and international dark money networks”)
- Tucker Carlson’s revisionist January 6 series is fascist propaganda (100%)
- Glenn Youngkin wrote the GOP playbook to navigate the Trump factor. Can it be replicated in 2022? (That “playbook” basically comes from Lee Atwater, and is decades old. But sure, media, claim that Youngkin “wrote” it. Also, a lot of this was simply President Biden’s approval rating being low right now. Anyway, the media’s gonna media, apparently…)
- What Democrats and Pollsters Missed in New Jersey One of the state’s top experts gets candid.
- Pollster: ‘I blew it.’ Maybe it’s time to get rid of election polls. (The final Monmouth poll said “Murphy is ahead of Ciattarelli by 11 percentage points among registered voters” Badly, badly wrong.)
- ‘I was literally screaming in pain’: Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating
- Kaine climate proposal aims to reduce stormwater pollution from military bases
- The Republicans’ Lesson From Virginia Win: More Outrage and Obstruction (“Eyeing big gains in next year’s midterms, the GOP isn’t about to start focusing on solutions to America’s challenges.”)
- Democratic Messaging “Experts” Failed to Stop Glenn Youngkin’s Strategists as They Won With a Candidate They Created Out of Whole Cloth (Going forward, Democrats had better figure out how to respond to this challenge.)
- FWIW Virginia’s 2021 Election Wrap-Up: “Not the Results We Were Looking For”; “It Wasn’t About a Spending Advantage”; Republican “Culture-War Attacks Aren’t Going Away”
- Elections Really Do Have Consequences: Virginia Republicans Could Now Reverse Progressive Legislation in a *Wide* Range of Areas… (Criminal justice, voting rights, civil rights, immigration, LGBTQ equality, guns, clean energy, abortion, etc, etc.)
- Northam welcomes Gov.-elect Youngkin to Virginia Executive Mansion as transition planning gets underway (“Youngkin said on a conservative podcast Thursday that he has named former U.S. Treasury official Jeff Goettman to head his transition team.” For anyone who thinks Youngkin isn’t a Trumpster, this Goettman guy is a big Trump donor)
- GOP agenda takes shape in Richmond
- Exit polls from 2017 and 2021 show the key groups that helped Youngkin turn Virginia red
- Did critical race theory really swing the Virginia election? (“A broader look at election night on November 2 tells a different and more familiar story: McAuliffe lost because of a nationalized backlash against an unpopular incumbent president”)
- Virginia Governor-elect Youngkin getting an assist from former GOP governor George Allen (Yuck.)
- After crushing loss, ‘gimmicky’ anti-Trump strategy draws criticism from Va. Democrats
- Virginia’s transition of power underway; Youngkins join Northams for lunch at Executive Mansion
- Williams: In Virginia, white grievance was the winning ticket. That’s what we learned on Election Day
- Miyares, attorney general-elect, plans thorough investigation of parole board misconduct
- ‘A Black Mouth Moving’ That ‘Justifies and Legitimates’ White Supremacy: MSNBC Guest Says Winsome Sears Win Doesn’t Make GOP Racially Progressive
- How Virginia’s Electorate Shifted Toward Republicans
- Top priority for Va. House Republicans ‘absolutely education,’ including school choice, after election’s shift of power
- Democrats will lose full control of Virginia’s House of Delegates, CNN projects, bolstering GOP’s gains across the state
- Republican Leaders Talk 2022 Priorities with Likely Majority in the House of Delegates
- Education to remain a focus for Virginia legislators heading into 2022.
- VA State Sen. Dave Marsden: “Incumbency” Should Not Be a Bad Word; To the Contrary, Thank God for 30-Year Incumbents (“We do not need term limits or redistricting to arbitrarily deprive us of the wisdom and knowledge of our veteran members.”)
- Virginia’s new political district maps will be drawn by justices, not the legislature; here’s how Tuesday’s election could impact the maps
- Thursday (11/4) Virginia Data on COVID-19: 1-Day New Cases +1,494; 10-Day New Cases +13,473; Hospitalizations at 947 (Lowest Since Mid August)
- As GOP takes over Richmond, local officials in deep-blue Northern Virginia start to worry (“Many liberal officials in the D.C. suburbs are fretting that Virginia’s red shift could bring bad news for their local agendas on the environment and public transit.”)
- Virginia Tech’s Sands announces work group amid increased reports of sexual violence
- Meeting to discuss transgender issues at Hanover schools draws vocal supporters for both sides
- Lawsuit highlights how far-right groups planned Unite the Right in Charlottesville
- ‘It ought to be better:’ Outcry over sex assaults culminates in Liberty University campus rally
- ‘King tide’ hits Hampton Roads this weekend, bringing flooding — and citizen scientists
- D.C.-area forecast: Cool and sunny today with a slow warming trend starting this weekend
