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California governor vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing cost

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a bill on Sunday that would have made free condoms available to all public high school students, arguing it was too expensive for a state with a budget deficit of more than $30 billion. California had about 1.9 million high school students enrolled in more than 4,000 schools last…

The biggest climate records hit this year

The effects of climate change are making themselves known as this year hits new records of uncertainty. And these records are just the beginning if humanity doesn’t change course. 1 Hottest month on record This year saw a sweltering summer with July 2023 being declared the hottest month on record, according to Copernicus Climate Change…

How solar and wind energy are saving Texans from a record heatwave

Texas has been breaking all sorts of records, and that’s mostly bad news.  As a heat dome settled over Texas in June, trapping brutal heat and humidity underneath, high temperature records were broken across the state. It was so hot in Texas, meteorologist Ben Noll noted, that the only rivals on planet Earth were “the Sahara…