Dave Levitan

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.

Apr 19, 2024 | splinter.com | Dave Levitan

At the end of March and into the early days of April, the Sahel region of Africa experienced an unprecedented heat wave. Extreme temperatures descended upon Guinea, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad. One city in Mali recorded a temperature of 48.5 degrees Celsius (over 119 degrees Fahrenheit). The heat wave was impossible. Or, it would have been impossible without the 1.2 degrees Celsius that humans have already baked into the global climate system.

Apr 15, 2024 | splinter.com | Dave Levitan

The Department of the Interior is raising rates the fossil fuel companies must pay to drill for oil and gas on public lands for the first time in more than a century. The move, announced on the same day the Biden administration unveiled another $7.4 billion in student loan debt forgiveness, adds another dance step to the often frustrating tango the “climate president” is engaged in.