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** Electric Cars Could Save California's Power Grid
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** January 26, 2021
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Climate change ramped up its attacks on California this year, serving up massive wildfires and blistering heat waves, which led to widespread power outages. To fight back, Governor Gavin Newsom took aim at heat-trapping carbon pollution from cars. In September, he signed an order to phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars in California by 2035.
The move earned praise from green groups, but critics say that millions of new electric vehicles will further strain California’s power grid, which is already buckling under the stress of worsening heat waves. In a letter to Gov. Newsom, outgoing EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler asked how California can expect to service a massive fleet of EVs when it “can’t even keep the lights on today.”
In their response to Wheeler, California environmental officials said that electric cars “support a more reliable, resilient, and affordable grid. Indeed, electric transportation and increasingly cleaner electricity go hand-in-hand.”
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** The Cooking Competition Show Addressing At-Home Food Waste: Netflix's Best Leftovers Ever!
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** January 13, 2021
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For some, including many of us at Sustainable America, cooking competition shows are a guilty pleasure. They bring together the creativity and beauty of food with the excitement and energy of a see-who’s-best contest. We cheer for cooks as they transform simple ingredients into dishes that make our mouths water. Not only does our new favorite show have plenty of those mouthwatering meals, it also centers around one of the biggest problems facing our food system: food waste.
Best Leftovers Ever!, available now on Netflix, captures the essence of a typical cooking competition show and turns up the heat by having contestants tackle food waste. Each episode features standard cooking competition elements: a rotating trio of cooks with unique personalities, three colorful and quirky judges that offer insights and critiques, and, of course, AMAZING looking food.
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