“Last year, 80 percent of new-car sales in Norway were electric, putting the country at the vanguard of the shift to battery-powered mobility. It has also turned Norway into an observatory for figuring out what the electric vehicle revolution might mean…” nytimes.com/2023/05/08/bus… “The air in Oslo, Norway’s capital, is measurably cleaner. The city is also quieter as noisier gasoline and diesel vehicles are scrapped. Oslo’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 30 percent since 2009, yet there has not been mass unemployment among gas station workers…”

"We recently conducted an independent and bipartisan investigation of the C.D.C.’s pandemic preparedness and response during the Covid-19 pandemic. And we concluded that the agency needs a serious reset — urgently so." cc @CroninChrysan nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opi… "Our study was based on interviews ‌with dozens of experts, including politically diverse policymakers, public health officials‌‌ and state and local leaders; data the C.D.C. provided in briefings and reports; and a review of previous outside assessments."