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🚨 More than 17,000 jobs are connected to offshore wind power projects that are already canceled, on hold, or at risk from Trump’s attack on wind power. Thousands more could be at risk in the onshore wind industry. 👷🦺🏗️ Learn more from @amprog here: americanprogress.org/article/the-tr…
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Climate change is making extreme weather more frequent, more intense, more costly, and more deadly. Check out the new Extreme Weather Emergency map from @ActonClimateUS, which illustrates the cost of climate disasters. app.sosha.ai/s/ySqSAXbJ
Countries that cling to fossil fuels are sabotaging their economies. Driving up costs, undermining competitiveness, locking-in stranded assets. They are missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century: the renewable energy revolution.
In the past, Americans have come together to demand the creation, funding, and protection of federal agencies we need to help keep our communities safe from diseases, natural disasters, and other threats. Today, they’re under attack. We must come together to #ProtectScience.

American science and innovation have made lives better here at home and abroad, but today they’re under attack. To meet the challenges we will face in the future, we must #ProtectScience now.

The Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts harm the labs researching future cures for deadly diseases and the scientists who keep us on the cutting edge of innovation. Now, perhaps more than ever, we need to #ProtectScience in the U.S.

Former first responder Margaret Cooney joins the @ricksmithshow to explain how the Trump administration is hindering FEMA's timely recovery process in Texas: