Dave Levitan

1 week ago | splinter.com | Dave Levitan

The supposed purpose is to let developers build housing — in a statement, Lee said the move would turn “federal liabilities into taxpayer value, while making housing more affordable for hardworking American families.” Only, the bill’s proposed wording says the land must be used for that or “any associated community needs.” Given that the same blueprint also features the general Trump administration lodestar of expanding oil and gas leasing, and such “community needs” do not appear all that...

1 week ago | splinter.com | Dave Levitan

“A large majority of registered voters oppose eliminating programs related to global warming,” reads a new report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Oct 9, 2024 | ascopost.com | Dave Levitan

ASCO has issued a rapid update to its guideline on the management of stage III non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), based on the results of the phase III LAURA trial, which was presented at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting and published simultaneously in The New England Journal of Medicine.1,2 The guideline includes a recommendation for the use of the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor osimertinib following definitive chemoradiotherapy in patients with unresectable stage III NSCLC with an EGFR exon 19...

Jul 19, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Dave Levitan

In an interview with CNN, Lee Isaac Chung, director of the new tentpole disaster movie Twisters, responded to his film failing to have any mention at all of climate change, despite being a movie about extreme weather. He had this to say:“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like (it) is putting forward any message…. I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.” [emphasis mine]To which I say: what. What? WHAT??

Apr 24, 2024 | splinter.com | Dave Levitan

Offshore wind power ranks only just behind high-speed rail among clean tech that much of the rest of the world can capably build while the U.S. flails about helplessly. The U.K., Denmark, the Netherlands, and especially China have spent the last couple decades installing tens of thousands of megawatts of offshore turbines, a period this country largely spent trying and then failing to build some signature projects. By last year, though, things had finally started to turn.