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Unless nations quickly muster the political and social will to engineer an emissions-free industrial system, the impacts of a warming planet are likely to be so great as to cause human civilization to collapse by 2050. 

San Francisco on June 4 hired a financial advisor as it considers buying distribution assets from the beleaguered utility Pacific Gas & Electric, which filed for voluntary bankruptcy protection in January as it faced more than $30 billion in liabilities stemming from 2017 and 2018 wildfires that burned many thousands of acres and destroyed thousands of structures.

There’s a saying: “What gets measured gets done.”

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has imposed a 10% fee cut on current projects and its CEO has talked of the importance of stricter future treatment of large companies.

With about 400 public works and public utilities employees in new locations, police probe could take six months of areas where 11 municipal staff and a contractor were killed by a project manager on May 31.