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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For the first time ever, parts of Alaska will be under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term.

It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the nation’s coldest state, but the National Weather Service only recently allowed for heat advisories to be issued there. Information on similarly warm weather conditions previously came in the form of “special weather statements.”

Using the heat advisory label could help people better understand the weather’s severity and potential danger, something a nondescript “special weather statement” didn’t convey.

The first advisory is for Sunday in Fairbanks, where temperatures are expected to top 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius). Fairbanks has has been warmer in the past, but this is unusual for June, officials said.

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There are two papers:

• a forward-looking study
• a historical study

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A new report documents how cities around the world are becoming more liveable and sustainable in the face of climate change.

The report itself is available here

A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.

We managed to get the actual tax on solar removed from the bill in the Senate, so some level of change is in fact possible. The House is where it's at now, so Americans need to give your rep a call and tell them to reject this year's budget over this (or any of the other things in it)

The Grain Belt Express line, meant to carry electricity from wind farms across the Midwest, faces an inquiry from the Missouri attorney general.

For context, the high-level picture of decarbonization is:

• generate electricity without burning stuff
• electify everything we can
• stop doing the things we can't

Only place left to stop it is the House, so call your rep

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.

Archived copy of the article

Many thanks to those who called to get this tax out of the budget. It's still really problematic in a lot of ways, including:

• Mass deportation funding
• Sharp cuts to Medicaid
• End to subsidies for wind, solar, batteries, and electric vehicles
• Huge cuts to basic research including climate science
• Massive giveaway for billionaires

but it's now a tiny bit less bad than it was when intorduced at midnight between Friday and Saturday

Edit: I note that the NYT took down the live update about this due to not meeting their rules about anonymous sourcing, and then posted it again once it was better sourced

Such credits have historically been largely fraudulent.

If you want to do something about it, call your rep and your senators — people got the provisions to sell off public land removed, so other changes are possible too