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Climate Deregulation Tracker
“The Climate Deregulation Tracker identified steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The tracker is linked to our database of climate change regulations and our two other climate regulation trackers: the Climate Reregulation Tracker covering the Biden administration and the Climate Backtracker covering the second Trump administration. Read more about… Continue Reading
Inflation Reduction Act Tracker
“The Sabin Center and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) are relaunching the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker (IRA Tracker) with added functionality and analysis. The IRA Tracker is an interactive tool designed to help users understand the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The website includes a database with summaries of the… Continue Reading
Climate Backtracker
“The Sabin Center’s new online tool – the Climate Backtracker – will identify steps taken by the Trump-Vance administration to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The Backtracker is the third iteration of Sabin Center climate regulation trackers. The first was the Climate Deregulation Tracker which tracked climate-related regulatory actions… Continue Reading
Silencing Science Tracker
“The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. It tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election. Read more about the tracker and related resources. We… Continue Reading
Meet the tracking companies that follow you around the internet
Datawrapper – “Considering the cookie consent banners that have come to grace our screens on a daily basis, it might not come as a surprise that companies are interested in extracting data from your online activities, and that browsing the internet is not exactly a private affair. Still, it is hard to grasp how this… Continue Reading
Big Brother Becomes Little Brother
Ken Klippenstein – Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits – Envious of the power and wealth of corporate America, the head of U.S. intelligence has issued a new directive calling on the spy agencies to “routinize” and “expand” their partnerships with private companies. Agencies are even authorized to incur “risk” in these… Continue Reading
ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
Angela Levine – “The day after President Donald Trump began his second term, people noticed that they could no longer access a .gov web page outlining women’s rights to abortion and contraception under US law. The Biden administration created the web page, reproductiverights.gov, after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending… Continue Reading
Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups
Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social – Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups – Google Sheet Please note all organizations listed on this spreadsheet have some public-facing presence. Any who would like to be removed please contact [email protected]. This list is dynamic and growing. If you have additions, edits, criticisms, suggestions, etc. please contact [email protected] . Last Update 1/25/25… Continue Reading
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search – Explore the Web your way – Search: All. Blogs, Academia, Vintage, Plain Text, Wikis, Forums, Recipes, Search in Title, Recent Results, Remove Javascript, Reduce Adtech. Prioritizes non-commercial content Tools for both search and discovery Find lost old websites Open Source Custom index and crawler software Simple technology — no AI or cloud… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
More Americans Than Ever Are Living in Wildfire Areas. L.A. Is No Exception
“The New York Times has created a series of maps visualizing wildfire and smoke risk for the different parts of Los Angeles County [gift article], where several devastating wildfires have been ravaging since early January. The newspaper used wildfire risk scores data from CoreLogic, a California-based business and property analytics company, and spatial data from… Continue Reading
