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2018 C.E. May 4
22 Major League Baseball teams to host LGBT Pride nights in 2018
Pride nights will be a big draw in Major League Baseball this season, with 22 of the 30 teams hosting an event for their LGBT fans.
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2018 C.E. May 3
Wimbledon bans plastic straws at this year’s championships
Wimbledon has joined the plastic war after it announced it will scrap straws at this year's championships. Last year more than 400,000 plastic straws were used during the tournament.
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2018 C.E. May 3
N.J. governor signs law requiring paid employee sick leave
New Jersey becomes the 10th state to enact sick-leave legislation. Under the law, employers are required to provide one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
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2018 C.E. May 3
Illinois Senate votes to require LGBT history curriculum be taught in schools
The Illinois Senate has approved a bill that requires public schools to teach "the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this country and this State."
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2018 C.E. May 2
All 197 Paris Agreement signatories now taking climate action
A policy brief published on Monday by U.K.-based climate research institute the Grantham Institute finds there are now over 1,500 laws and policies in place worldwide, up from only 72 in 1997, with 106 introduced since the Paris Agreement was finalised at the end of 2015.
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2018 C.E. May 2
$32 million in Green Climate Fund support to aid climate resilience in Rwanda
The initiative will directly support about 150,000 residents, with wider benefits to more than 380,000 people all who have little resources to mitigate and adapt to climate change, officials say.
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2018 C.E. April 30
Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years
The City of Seattle on Friday filed a motion asking the court to vacate hundreds of marijuana possession convictions going back three decades and adversely impacting people of color.
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2018 C.E. April 30
Australia is investing $379 million to save the Great Barrier Reef
The landmark plan includes funds for improving water quality by reducing pollution from farm fertilizer runoff, and encourage reef restoration by experimenting with laboratory-grown coral that is more durable at higher temperatures.
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2018 C.E. April 27
North and South Korea vow to end the Korean War in historic accord
The leaders of North and South Korea have committed themselves to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and pledged to bring a formal end to the Korean War, 65 years after hostilities ceased.
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2018 C.E. April 27
E.U. to ban bee-killing pesticides
EU countries voted on Friday for a near-total ban on insecticides blamed for killing off bee populations, in what campaigners called a "beacon of hope" for the winged insects.
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2018 C.E. June 18
India increases its 2022 renewable energy target by 28%
India's power and renewable energy minister announced that India was increasing its 2022 target by 52 GW up to 227 GW.
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2018 C.E. June 18
Volvo sets goal of 25 percent recycled plastics in cars from 2025
At least 25 percent of the plastics used in new Volvo car models from 2025 will be from recycled materials.
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2018 C.E. June 13
Iraq’s civilian death toll drops by nearly 80 percent
Iraq saw an 80% drop in civilian deaths in the first 5 months of 2018 compared to the same period last year, according to reports by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Iraq Body Count database.
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2018 C.E. June 13
Tokyo announces plan to install solar roads in time for 2020 Olympics
Japan has decided to continue the introduction of solar roads on government owned property, and will more likely focus on parking lots.
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2018 C.E. June 12
MidAmerican Energy to become first 100% renewable energy utility with Wind XII Project
Wind XII consists of 591 MW of new wind capacity in Iowa and has propelled the company to be the first investor-owned electric utility in the U.S. to generate renewable energy equal to 100% of its customers usage each year.
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2018 C.E. June 12
Scottish greenhouse gas emission rates ‘halved since 1990’
Government statistics show levels in 2016 were 49% below the 1990 baseline, with a 10.3% drop on the previous year.
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2018 C.E. June 12
Temple University researchers successfully reverse cognitive impairments in mice with dementia
New research shows, for the first time in an animal model, that tau pathology -- the second-most important lesion in the brain in patients with Alzheimer's disease -- can be reversed by a drug.
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2018 C.E. June 12
World Health Organization certifies Paraguay malaria-free
The World Health Organization (WHO) certified Paraguay as having eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to be granted this status since Cuba in 1973.
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2018 C.E. June 11
IKEA to use only renewable and recycled materials by 2030
IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, plans to use only renewable and recycled materials in its products by 2030.
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2018 C.E. June 11
India aims to criminalize witch doctor practice of branding sick children with hot irons
When a traditional healer burned hot clay into the chest of two-year-old Kushbu Lal, she died. Now moves are afoot to criminalize a practice that continues to cost lives.