Jacob Lambert

Jan 8, 2025 | heatmap.news | Jacob Lambert

The Palisades, Hurst, and Eaton fires now spreading across Los Angeles are yet another reminder that our rapidly changing climate now acts in unprecedented ways, with hurricane-force winds, longstanding drought, and a host of other factors contributing to blazes that have so far caused two deaths, the evacuation of thousands, and mounting property damage. The following images are at once shockingly new — it is, after all, January in Los Angeles — and numbingly familiar.

Jan 30, 2024 | heatmap.news | Jacob Lambert |Jeva Lange |Robinson Meyer |Jillian Goodman

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Jan 30, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Jacob Lambert

For decades, oil and gas producers have built their facilities along an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Today, that area is known as Cancer Alley. A report by Human Rights Watch released last week documents in painstaking detail how lax oversight of Louisiana’s fossil fuel and petrochemical industries contributed not just to devastating rates of cancer diagnoses, but also to elevated incidence of birth defects and respiratory ailments.

Jan 9, 2024 | heatmap.news | Matthew Zeitlin |Jillian Goodman |Jacob Lambert

We’re gonna need a bigger electricity generation system. That’s what PJM Interconnection, the massive electricity market spanning 13 states on the East Coast and in the Midwest, said in a report Monday. PJM predicted that its peak electricity demand would increase every year by 1.7% in the summer and 2% in the winter. It also anticipates overall energy use to grow 2.4% annually over the next decade — an increase of 200,000 gigawatt-hours, or roughly 25%, by 2034.

Jan 9, 2024 | heatmap.news | Jillian Goodman |Matthew Zeitlin |Jacob Lambert |Jeva Lange

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