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This week: Ira’s here and ready to fund the future It’s back to school and the air’s still not clean Our relationship with water is changing everywhere Monkeypox folks are helping each other Facebook’s liable for a whole lot of data Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com/newsletter Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve ...

This week: A surprise for climate development that isn't terrifying? Facebook might relax their COVID misinformation policies Less land, more rice Alzheimer's under a microscope A treasure trove of biological proteins Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: How to beat the heat in your city COVID quackery Introducing "Explainers"! A blockbuster depression study A new federal privacy bill is comin' Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Manchin fuels more heat waves COVID reinforcements on the way India and California fight plastic How we fight monkeypox Wow Ring doorbells are not great Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: What's a chief heat officer? Fixing schools in the time of COVID Why plant-based meat is a massive 80/20 move for the climate (and your health) Uh, Juul is back? Google's hiding your "sensitive" location data Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: The SEC's coming for greenwashing in a real way BA4: Endgame and BA5: Infinity War are here and immune evasive Eat more local veggies Bye-bye vapes (and nicotine?) A digital privacy bill might actually see the light of day Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve...

This week: Where do gas cars go when we buy electric? A bunch of COVID updates The Colorado River's next chapter What's next for Alzheimer's Holy shit Facebook's tracking pixel is more invasive than expected, which is saying something Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserv...

This week: Biden's going it alone on electrification Moderna's got a new booster Why food is so expensive An unbelievable cancer result Apple's saying goodbye to passwords Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: SEC climate risk reporting gets closer to reality What's the Paxlovid rebound? How to make strawberries last weeks longer What the hell is monkeypox? Mastercard wants to give you variable interest rates in exchange for your face Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you d...

This week: Lithium is expensive AF because it's in wildly short supply Paxlovid and Long COVID, a thing? Global breadbaskets are getting hotter and/or wetter and/or laced with explosives Fuck guns Healthcare info privacy is not a thing, apparently Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a n...

This week: Water in the West Who will get Long COVID? The baby formula shortage, explained Drug overdoses and gaslighting Data privacy improvements Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: India's heat continues When a surge is not a surge Antibiotics (still) in meat Abortion Email cybersecurity is...lacking Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Wind isn't profitable Kids vaccines on the hold up The kitchen sink answer to food waste, it's metaphors galore today Menthol cigarettes are all smoked out America's new AI chief Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Should we mine the ocean? Mask mandates are over, what else? Split up the FDA Alzheimer's trials are very white Ronan Farrow comes for Pegasus spyware Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Carbon removal: Hope is not a plan. A bajillion dollars might be! COVID and diabetes is the new Bennifer Walmart's regenerative farming pledge is about dirt PFAS in food wrappers, not delicious How hospitals get cyberattacked, but why Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap...

This week: The climate tech gap, explained Free COVID tests, over (for some) The future of freshwater Millions of nurses, lost Facebook, unregulated, still Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: The SEC's new climate rule, summarized J&J's COVID shot, redeemed? How to protect food workers in the climate age PTSD and ecstasy Russia's lack of cyber warfare, hypothesized Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: ESG's crumbling COVID on the rise, funding vanishes California's breadbasket at risk Gene therapy pricing Your biometric data for sale, part 73 Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Putin's oil, rejected The lives we write off What "sustainable" really means, or, nothing Lead pipes, still Microsoft's new cancer bot Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: The IPCC report, by the numbers Biden's new COVID plan Wheat (prices) on the rise Mental health apps need to meditate on some randomized control trials Pegasus: Not a horse! This time Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Gas: the forever bridge fuel Boosters, boosted Megadrought self-awareness Maternal deaths on the rise Your location data, for sale Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: America will see an average of 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050 1 million COVID deaths $1 billion for cover crops Antimicrobial resistance got next Clearview's next steps (to harvest your data) Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Get fun merch at importantnotimportant.com/store Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Carbon markets are magic and demand to be taken seriously, Michael Mask mandates are ending Food prices up the rise Biden's cancer moonshot IRS FaceTime cancelled Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Take a nap you deserve it

This week: Will the EPA's powers be gutted? Don't forget your vaccines for everything else PFAS can't get regulated soon enough Everywhere needs more nurses The database with virtually everyone's most private health info just sold (again) Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com Got feedback? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Take a nap you deserve it