EPA shifts program for water utilities to downplay climate change Jess Kramer, the EPA water chief, says technical assistance programs shouldn’t be used “as a means to advance local or state climate goals.”

In E&E News, @zialyle.bsky.social & I talked with @mirandawrites.bsky.social about the new paper Zia led finding climate risks at drinking water utilities (www.nature.com/articles/s43...). EPA eliminated a program that helped water utilities prepare for climate change. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

How climate change is impacting drinking water in the US Climate change is making access to drinkable water more difficult in the United States.

I had a great time talking with @zialyle.bsky.social &
@costasamaras.com about their new study on how climate change poses risks to U.S. drinking water.

Water utilities for roughly a fifth of the U.S. population are at high risk from climate hazards.

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The Infrastructure Effect: Safeguarding drinking water for the future This post is part of a series exploring the impacts of federal investments in home electrification, transportation, supply chains, and climate resilience.

Check out the new series that uses Carnegie Mellon University research to explore the impacts of federal investments in home electrification, supply chains, transportation and climate resilience.

energy.cmu.edu/news/2025/05...

Data under duress - Nature Climate Change Climate change and climate action are socially and politically divisive topics in many countries. In addition to contributing to political disparity, climate research is also affected by political con...

climate data should be publicly available so people can accurately assess their future risks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...

The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️

Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

Climate change hazard index reveals combined risks to United States drinking water utilities - IOPscienceSearch Climate change hazard index reveals combined risks to United States drinking water utilities, Lyle, Zia J, VanBriesen, Jeanne M, Samaras, Constantine

happy world water day! 💧my latest paper finds that climate change hazards could affect the reliability of half of all US drinking water utilities, highlighting the need to make our water systems more resilient to future conditions

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Map 1. Proportion of businesses that experienced monetary loss because of extreme weather, by metro area

Roughly 9.8% of employer businesses were financially impacted by extreme weather in 2022. In some cities like New Orleans, close to 50% were impacted. Why aren't more business leaders calling for stronger adaptation policy???
@andreperryedu.bsky.social

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Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond 🎂

Everything about this is perfect: a local Dutch water authority (Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden) is still paying €13.61 a year to the bearer of this bond, which was floated to reconstruct a damaged dike in 1624. The bearer is the New York Stock Exchange.

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