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22+ Environmental Accomplishments and Bonus CG, Too! - August 25 Good News Roundup [1]
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Date: 2022-08-25
Here are some cheery asters for you!
Good Day, Gnusies! Surprise! It’s Me and CG again! See if you can spot the bonus picture of CG in today’s GNR!
MCUBernieFan alerted us yesterday evening that a bulldozer and a telephone pole got into it on her street and the telephone pole lost! Apparently that pole carried her internet line, so….. it is potluck time! But not just any potluck — a genuine MCUBernieFan-friendly environmental potluck, including some links that the CUB herself emailed over. ☺️
On fourth Thursdays we can usually count on lots of good environmental news and cool science stories. This Thursday will be no exception! First, I’d like to remind everybody about 12 awesome things that Joe Biden (and the Dems) did to protect the environment in just the first year of his administration AND 10 more awesome things they did in 2022!. Let’s get started!
But first, some music!
12 things Joe Biden and the Dems did to protect the Environment in 2021:
1. Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accords!
What have Democrats done for us? Just put us back on path to protect the freakin’ planet.
Rejoin the Paris climate accords
Biden signed an order to rejoin the Paris climate accords that President Trump exited last year, sending the United Nations a document that will make the U.S. party to the agreement in 30 days. The international pact aims to push all countries to slash their greenhouse gas emissions
2. Biden expanded wind farms
Biden has been working behind the scenes to make huge changes in energy production. This is one outcome.
Biden administration announces plans for massive expansion of wind farms off US coasts
The Biden administration is planning to aggressively expand offshore wind energy capacity in the United States, potentially holding as many as seven new offshore lease sales by 2025. The move was announced Wednesday by US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and first reported by The New York Times. Haaland said the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is exploring leasing sales along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in the Gulf of Maine, the New York Bight, the central Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the Carolinas, California and Oregon. The administration in March announced a coordinated effort to bolster offshore wind energy projects in the United States in order to jump-start a "clean energy revolution." As part of that initiative, which spans multiple government agencies, the Departments of the Interior, Energy and Commerce committed to a shared goal of generating 30 gigawatts of offshore wind in the US by 2030. The Interior Department estimates that reaching that goal would create nearly 80,000 jobs.
3. Biden and the Democrats made the largest investment in railroads since Amtrak was created
x In the largest investment in passenger rail since Amtrak was created, President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help create safe, efficient, and climate-friendly transportation alternatives for people and freight. — The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 8, 2022
4. Biden revoked the Keystone XL pipeline permit
Revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and cancel other Trump administration energy rules
Biden revoked the presidential permit for the $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline that would have transported fossil fuels from Canada across the United States -- a project climate activists have protested for years. The order also directs federal agencies to start reversing and revising other Trump administration rules, including restoring protections and banning drilling in several national parks and national monuments and setting stricter emissions and fuel economy standards for vehicles.
5. Biden protected endangered species
Biden Administration Moves To Reverse Two Trump-Era Rules In Bid To Protect Endangered Species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service have proposed rescinding two 2020 rules put in place by former President Donald Trump, a move that would allow the agencies more power to prevent development in endangered species’ habitats, part of a larger White House effort to undo policies Trump passed during office.
6. Biden increased use of renewable energy
Biden Orders Federal Vehicles and Buildings to Use Renewable Energy by 2050
Under an executive order, the federal government would phase out the purchase of gasoline-powered vehicles, and its buildings would be powered by wind, solar or other clean energy.
7. Biden is cleaning up long ignored toxic sites
After decades, some of America’s most toxic sites will finally get cleaned up
New funding and the revival of a long-lapsed tax on chemical makers in the bipartisan infrastructure law mean cities like Newark will get money to restore toxic Superfund sites. President Biden signed legislation reviving a polluter’s tax that will inject a new stream of cash into the nation’s troubled Superfund program. The renewed excise fees, which disappeared more than 25 years ago, are expected to raise $14.5 billion in revenue over the next decade and could accelerate cleanups of many sites that are increasingly threatened by climate change. The Superfund list includes more than 1,300 abandoned mines, radioactive landfills, shuttered military labs, closed factories and other contaminated areas across nearly all 50 states. They are the poisoned remnants of America’s emergence as a 20th-century industrial juggernaut. The 49 sites receiving money from the infrastructure law include a neighborhood in Florida with soil contaminated from treating wooden telephone poles, a former copper mine in Maine laced with leftover metals, and an old steel manufacturer in southern New Jersey where parts of the Golden Gate Bridge were fabricated.
8. Biden Halted federal aid to new fossil projects overseas
Biden Halts Federal Aid to New Fossil Fuel Projects Overseas
The Biden administration has ordered an immediate halt to new federal support for coal plants and other carbon-intensive projects overseas, a major policy shift designed to fight climate change and accelerate renewable energy worldwide. The wide-ranging directive for the first time bars U.S. government backing for future ventures, potentially affecting billions of dollars in annual funding as well as diplomatic and technical assistance.
9. Biden Protected Trees
2021 was a game-changing year for trees
the year started out bleak for some of the nation’s most important forest ecosystems. The outgoing Trump administration slashed federal protection for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest — the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest — and finalized a rule to stop protecting more than 3 million acres of the Pacific Northwest that’s home to the northern spotted owl, a threatened bird. Biden reversed these policies, and others, after taking office. “We’ve now had 12 months to get us back to where we were in 2016,” said Aaron Weiss, deputy director at the Center for Western Priorities, a research and advocacy group. “I don’t know if you can call that progress as much as it is stopping the bleeding.” But in January, Biden also announced that the US would aim for “30 by 30” — a goal of conserving at least 30 percent of the nation’s land and water by 2030, which dozens of other countries have committed to. “We’ve never seen a president make that kind of big conservation promise right off the top,” Weiss said. This year also ushered in major pledges and financing for trees. At the UN’s big November climate conference in Glasgow, more than 100 global leaders vowed to end deforestation by 2030 — a commitment that governments and private companies backed with $19 billion. In April, a number of countries, including the US and Norway, also launched a coalition that will pay countries that can show they’re preventing deforestation.
10. Biden reduced climate emissions from cars
New Biden rule reducing climate emissions from cars and SUVs reverses major Trump rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency regulation finalized Monday marks the president’s single biggest step to fight global warming. The Biden administration finalized a rule Monday to cut climate pollutants from new cars and light trucks, which will keep billions of tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and change the kinds of vehicles Americans drive.
11. Biden protected 3 million acres of land
Biden expands Bears Ears and other national monuments
Biden used an executive order to protect 1.36 million acres in Bears Ears — slightly larger than the original boundary that President Barack Obama established in 2016 — while also restoring the 1.87 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante monument. Biden also reimposed fishing restrictions in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New England that Trump had opened to commercial fishing.
12. Biden is making light bulbs more efficient
DOE Moves Toward Ensuring Light Bulbs Save Energy
The Biden administration took a major step late Friday toward ensuring most new light bulbs do not waste the bulk of the energy they use, but it is unclear how long inefficient bulbs will remain on the market. The Department of Energy (DOE) proposed to require that everyday light bulbs meet an efficiency standard—easily achieved by today’s LEDs—that had been set to take effect last year before the Trump administration prevented it from doing so. Each additional month that light bulb standards are delayed costs consumers nearly $300 million in needless energy bills and causes 800,000 tons of preventable carbon dioxide emissions over the lifetime of the inefficient bulbs sold in that month.
All of the above came from Goody’s epic diary One Hundred Amazing Things Biden and the Democrats Did in One Year! GNR. Since she posted that diary, Joe and the Dems have been busy racking up environmental wins in 2022, too!
🎶 Musical Interlude 🎶
10 Things Joe Biden and the Dems did to protect the Environment in 2022 (so far)
1. Joe Biden and the Dems passed the huge, historic climate and healthcare bill
Biden signs massive climate and health care legislation, Zeke Miller, AP, August 16, 2022.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections. The legislation includes the most substantial federal investment in history to fight climate change — some $375 billion over the decade — and would cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket annually for Medicare recipients. It also would help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic. ✂️ The bill will direct spending, tax credits and loans to bolster technology like solar panels, consumer efforts to improve home energy efficiency, emission-reducing equipment for coal- and gas-powered power plants, and air pollution controls for farms, ports and low-income communities.
2. Biden issued executive action on climate to address extreme heat and boost offshore wind
FACT SHEET: President Biden’s Executive Actions on Climate to Address Extreme Heat and Boost Offshore Wind
President Biden’s new executive actions will: Protect Communities from Extreme Heat and Dangerous Climate Impacts: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is announcing $2.3 billion in funding for its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program for Fiscal Year 2022— the largest BRIC investment in history, boosted by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This funding will help communities increase resilience to heat waves, drought, wildfires, flood, hurricanes, and other hazards by preparing before disaster strikes. BRIC is among hundreds of federal programs that the Biden-Harris Administration is transforming to support the Justice40 Initiative and prioritize delivering benefits to disadvantaged communities.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is announcing $2.3 billion in funding for its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program for Fiscal Year 2022— the largest BRIC investment in history, boosted by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This funding will help communities increase resilience to heat waves, drought, wildfires, flood, hurricanes, and other hazards by preparing before disaster strikes. BRIC is among hundreds of federal programs that the Biden-Harris Administration is transforming to support the Justice40 Initiative and prioritize delivering benefits to disadvantaged communities. Lower Cooling Costs for Communities Suffering from Extreme Heat: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services is issuing guidancethat for the first time expands how the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) can promote the delivery of efficient air conditioning equipment, community cooling centers, and more. In April, the Biden-Harris Administration released $385 million through LIHEAP to help families with their household energy costs, including summer cooling—part of a record $8 billion that the Administration has provided, boosted by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Expand Offshore Wind Opportunities and Jobs: The Department of the Interior is proposing the first Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico, a historic step toward expanding offshore wind opportunities to another region of the United States. These areas cover 700,000 acres and have the potential to power over three million homes. President Biden is also directing the Secretary of the Interior to advance wind energy development in the waters off the mid- and southern Atlantic Coast and Florida’s Gulf Coast —alleviating uncertainty cast by the prior Administration. These actions follow the President’s launch of a new Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership that brought together Governors to deliver more clean, affordable energy and new jobs.
3. Biden restored climate to environmental law
Biden Restores Climate to Landmark Environmental Law, Reversing Trump, Lisa Friedman, New York Times, April 19, 2022.
This is a bonus picture of me, CG, when I was a puppy! WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is restoring parts of a bedrock environmental law, once again requiring that climate impacts be considered and local communities have input before federal agencies approve highways, pipelines and other major projects. The administration has resurrected requirements of the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act that had been removed by President Donald J. Trump, who complained that they slowed down the development of mines, road expansions and similar projects. The final rule announced Tuesday would require federal agencies to conduct an analysis of the greenhouse gases that could be emitted over the lifetime of a proposed project, as well as how climate change might affect new highways, bridges and other infrastructure, according to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The rule, which takes effect in 30 days, would also ensure agencies give communities directly affected by projects a greater role in the approval process.
4. Biden allocated $2.3b to build infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather conditions due to climate change
Smart climate action that is both fiscally prudent (the budget was already sitting there needing to be properly allocated) and socially just. Isn’t that just like a Democrat? 💙
Biden unveils $2.3bn plan to fight climate change, Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC News, July 21, 2022.
US President Joe Biden has announced $2.3bn (£1.9bn) to help build infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather and natural disasters. ✂️ "Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world," the president said in Wednesday's speech, which was delivered outside a former coal-fired power plant in the town of Somerset. "The health of our citizens and our communities is... at stake. So we have to act." He said the funding would go to expanding flood control, shoring up utilities, retrofitting buildings, and helping families pay for heating and cooling costs. The money comes from an existing Federal Emergency Management Agency budget and will be prioritised for disadvantaged communities, said the White House.
5. Joe and the Dems bringing solar power projects to fruition
Interior Department Announces Full Operation of Palen Solar Project in California, U.S. Dept. of Interior, August 8, 2022.
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced that the Palen Solar Project, a 457-megawatt photovoltaic facility in Riverside County, California, has reached full power operation. The project — which will supply enough energy to power approximately 116,000 homes and includes 50 megawatts of battery storage — represents another major step forward in the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to lower costs for families and create a clean energy, carbon-free future. “Bringing another solar project to full operation on our public lands will accelerate our nation’s transition to a clean energy economy by unlocking renewable resources, creating jobs, lowering costs, and boosting local economies,” said Secretary Deb Haaland. “The Interior Department will continue to advance the sustainable development of clean energy in order to help meet the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035.” ✂️ “The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan represents an unprecedented partnership that balances our country’s equally important goals of facilitating renewable energy while ensuring that lands in California’s deserts are set aside for conservation and recreation,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Laura Daniel-Davis. “As with all the Department’s clean energy projects, the Bureau of Land Management has seen this project through to completion with extensive engagement with Tribal governments, local communities, state regulators, industry and other federal agencies.”
NOTE: Pay attention to the layered themes in the work that Joe and the Dems are doing. It isn’t JUST climate change being addressed. They are taking action also against the structural inequities and injustices that have made the fallout of climate change even worse for marginalized communities. Biden’s choices for Secretaries have been inspired and excellent. Deb Haaland at Interior, Pete Buttigieg at Transportation — these are people with the knowledge and ability — as well as a sense of justice. This is leadership. This is governance FOR THE PEOPLE (as Nancy Pelosi never tires of reminding us) and for the people means FOR THE ENVIRONMENT that we live, work and raise families in.
6. Yes, Biden/Harris are serious about offshore wind projects
Biden-Harris Administration Continues Offshore Wind Momentum, Announces Next Steps for Gulf of Maine, U.S. Dept of Interior, August 18, 2022.
WASHINGTON — As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030, the Department of the Interior today announced next steps to bring the opportunity of offshore wind energy to the Gulf of Maine. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has made available a Request for Interest (RFI) and Request for Competitive Interest (RFCI) in the Federal Register for public comment. “President Biden has set ambitious goals to address the climate crisis, and in response the Interior Department is taking historic steps to develop a robust and sustainable clean energy future,” said Secretary Deb Haaland. “Today’s announcement for the Gulf of Maine represents one of the many milestones that this Administration has achieved to advance offshore wind development, create good-paying jobs, and lower consumer energy costs, while collaborating with our government partners, Tribes and key stakeholders to protect biodiversity, advance environmental justice and safeguard other ocean uses.” ✂️ Over the past year, the Biden-Harris administration has launched the American offshore wind industry by approving and celebrating the groundbreaking of the nation’s first two commercial-scale, offshore wind projects in federal waters. By 2025, the Interior Department plans to hold up to five additional offshore lease sales and complete the review of at least 16 plans to construct and operate commercial, offshore wind energy facilities, which would represent more than 22 gigawatts of clean energy for the nation. In addition, investments from the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act will lower energy costs by hundreds of dollars per year for families by making clean energy more affordable and accessible. The Act will create good-paying jobs by spurring an unprecedented expansion in clean energy deployment and manufacturing of more than 120,000 wind turbines.
7. Biden/Harris admin is focused on restoring parks, concerns of tribal communities
FHWA Announces $54.3 Million Grant to National Park Service to Improve Safety along Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi, U.S. Dept of Transportation, August 17, 2022.
“Through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we’re now modernizing more of the infrastructure that creates opportunity in tribal communities,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Today, we’re proud to award over $54 million to resurface, restore, and rehabilitate over 80 miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi, making it safer and more resilient for all those who rely on it.” “Millions of visitors travel along the Natchez Trace Parkway each year and support economic activity in the surrounding areas,” said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Stephanie Pollack. “The grant we’re providing to the National Park Service will bring safer travel and better access to recreational opportunities and natural and cultural resources along this parkway and help create good-paying construction jobs to get the work done.” Funding for the grant is being made possible through FHWA’s Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Project program and reflects the Biden-Harris Administration’s focus on serving Tribal communities. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law made significant changes to the program by increasing annual authorizations from $100 million to $355 million and ensuring tribal transportation facilities receive 50% of the appropriated funds. Critically, Tribes can apply for funding at 100% federal share with no matching requirement, a historic barrier for Tribal access to infrastructure funding. The program provides Federal funding for construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of multi-modal transportation facilities that are situated within, adjacent to, or provide access to Federal or Tribal lands. A project of national significance is typically a higher cost project that federal land management agencies and tribal governments cannot normally afford to build because the project would exhaust their financial resources. The project is also considered important to the well-being of the area where the project is located and surrounding community, supports safe access to popular recreation destinations such as National Parks, or provides critical transportation support for hospitals and schools on Tribal lands.
8. Biden’s climate bill to improve parks’ resilience to climate change
Help is on the way for national parks coping with climate change and understaffing, Savannah Maher, Marketplace, August 18, 2022.
The climate bill that President Joe Biden signed into law this week includes an investment in the National Parks Service — nearly a billion dollars to bolster park staffing, maintenance and climate change resilience, areas where resources have been stretched thin.✂️ “This injection of money will help the parks service get out in front of some of these events,” said Kristen Brengel with the National Parks Conservation Association. The funding will help parks build more climate-resilient infrastructure and address chronic understaffing, she added. ✂️ That comes with benefits for nearby communities… “So many of the national parks, almost by definition of course, are located in rural areas” where parks tourism may be one of the only major economic drivers.
9. Biden has beefed up the EPA
The EPA Just Quietly Got Stronger, Robinson Meyer, the Atlantic, August 24, 2022.
The new climate bill isn’t quite “all carrots, no sticks.” While it’s true that the IRA itself consists almost only of carrots, that is not true of the broader structure of American climate law. There is, in fact, a big “stick” for tackling carbon pollution already on the books in the United States, as well as an agency tasked with wielding that stick. I’m talking about the Clean Air Act and the EPA. And the IRA, by design, strengthens the government’s ability to wield that stick. It does this in at least two ways. The first is that the IRA confirms that carbon dioxide is a type of air pollution covered by the Clean Air Act, as initially reported by The New York Times earlier this week. ✂️ Congress has now clearly spoken: Carbon dioxide is a form of air pollution. And though this will not undo this year’s ruling, it buttresses the EPA’s underlying legal authority to regulate climate pollution. But that change is not the only—or even the most important—way that the IRA strengthens the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. The law will also allow the EPA to pass much stricter rules than it could have previously.
10. Joe Biden will transform the midwest with great EV jobs
Biden’s legacy will be transforming the Rust Belt into the EV Belt, Akhil Ramesh, The Hill, August 23, 2022.
n the years to come, July and August of 2022 will be remembered as the months that changed the course of America’s place in the 21st century. ✂️ The new EV ecosystem is primarily being created in states such as Ohio, Michigan and Missouri. At Rouge Center in Dearborn, Mich., Ford plans to invest $2 billion to increase the production of the new F-150 Lightning electric truck to 150,000 per year and in Avon Lake, Ohio, the automakers plan to invest another $1.5 billion, creating over 1,800 union jobs to build the electric commercial vans. Further south, in small town Commerce, Ga., SK America, a subsidiary of the Korean battery maker, is manufacturing batteries for the F-150 Lightning. In a town where the most available employment is at warehouses making $9 or $10/hr, a base wage of $18/hr lives up to the promise of the American dream — economic mobility. The CHIPS ACT and the IRA will also create jobs and revive semiconductor chip manufacturing in Arizona, Texas and Ohio and bring high-paying technology jobs to Pennsylvania and Georgia, which have yet to recover their manufacturing prowess of the past.
ICE cars to EVs throughout the midwest and southeast? This optimist senses a sea change coming in the way people everywhere think about...well, everything!
🎶 Musical Interlude 🎶
🔬 Cool Science News 🔬
The Spookiest Sound in Astronomy, Marina Koren, the Atlantic, August 23, 2022.
Ah, the sounds of late summer. Pass a pool, and hear the happy yelps of kids splashing around. Sit outside at night, and bask in the soothing buzz of cicadas hidden in the trees. Open the internet, and hear the terrifying howling of outer space. Thank NASA for that last one. The space agency recently shared a clip online of sound coming from a cluster of galaxies about 250 million light-years from Earth. NASA, always eager to show off its capacity to produce cosmic wonder, presented the audio enthusiastically, as if to say, Wow, check out this cool thing!And although the transformation of space phenomena into something detectable by our human ears certainly seems like an exciting exercise, the reality is—well, have a listen. x x YouTube Video
Farmer Thrives by Growing Gluten-free Grain Needing No Water During Drought, Andy Corbley, Good News Network, August 18, 2022.
What doesn’t need irrigation, requires no pesticides, and needs only a third of the fertilizer of wheat? It’s a potential big-problem-solving grain called sorghum, which in France is growing strong while all other grain fields are withering and baking under record temperatures. Farming is all about the input costs. Eudes Coutte, a sorghum farmer in France, expects around 3-4 tons per hectare under the current drought conditions compared to 5-6 under normal conditions. However Coutte believes he has a competitive advantage as he doesn’t need to fork over the additional input costs of irrigation, pesticides, and fertilizer.
Alzheimer’s Memory Loss Reversed in Mice After Scientists Discover Method to Form New Brain Cells, Good News Network, August 22, 2022.
Alzheimer’s has been reversed in mice after scientists at the University of Illinois-Chicago boosted the formation of new brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments. Their gene therapy fueled new neurons in the hippocampus—a region in the brain vital for learning and remembering where you put your car keys. Experiments have shown this growth process is impaired—particularly in the hippocampus—in patients and mice with mutations linked to Alzheimer’s. The team found that the increasing production of neurons transformed the lab rodent’s defects, as the new neurons were incorporated into memory circuits, restoring normal function.
‘Sightings of a lifetime’: Whales and dolphins flock to NYC waters, Tim Donnelly, New York Post, August 18, 2022.
While sharks have gotten the most attention, pictures of whales, bottlenose dolphins, rays and other underwater urbanites have flooded social media, enchanting beachgoers and dramatically updating perceptions about dirty old New York. Go to the link to see real pictures of the actual sightings In this case, sea-ing is believing. Experts say years of conservation efforts have resulted in some of the healthiest waters in generations, with booming fish populations, clearer ocean waves and more chances to interact with our urban aquarium. “These are still the sightings of a lifetime for me,” said Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Ocean Giants Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the New York Aquarium. “Off of New York, you can see bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales with the greatest skyline in the world in the backdrop.”
🐩💙 Bonus CG! 💙🐩
Hello Everybody! I am going to help MCUBernieFan too! They usually post some sort of cute animal video and I have just the thing! Remember the video I posted yesterday of the Mare who lost her foal and the foal who lost his mama and they became foster mare and foster foal? Well, here is the same pair a few months later and they are now truly mare and foal!
Here’s a helpful link:
Electric Car Rebates and Incentives: What to Know by State, Chantel Wakefield, Kelley Blue Book, August 5, 2022.
That’s it from the nifty manor for another GNR! We will close with some music that I think MCUBernieFan would like, because they’ve put these guys in GNRs in the past.
Happy Thursday, Gnusies!
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