United States: New York region hard hit by storm Ida
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Storm Ida caused extensive damage and claimed 40 lives in New York State on September 2, 2021. © AP / Craig Ruttle
By: Mayeule de Charon
22 mins
At least nearly 50 people have died in the northeastern United States, New York and surrounding states, including New Jersey, from torrential rains and flooding.
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According to our guest, Jean-Daniel Collomb, professor of American studies at the University of Grenoble Alpes, the Biden administration could use this event, "
to draw the attention of American public opinion to the urgent need to act on the climate issue and to put pressure on the Republicans, who are much more reluctant to act in this area ”.
Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration have been working for several months on
“
Two major bills on climate change.
A massive investment project in infrastructure to try to increase the resilience of electricity networks, to finance the construction of dikes or the development of warning systems
.
The Biden administration is also working on "
another potentially gigantic investment bill in various sectors of the economy where climate is very important.
The American president would like to achieve the total decarbonization of electricity generation in the United States by 2035,
”he adds.
Caldor fire threatens towns near Lake Tahoe in California
Faced with the scale of the disaster, Joe Biden declared a state of emergency.
The American president also ordered the granting of federal aid to strengthen efforts to fight this fire with dramatic consequences, details the
San Francisco Chronicle
.
The municipality of South Lake Tahoe, bordering Lake Tahoe, was completely evacuated because it risked going up in smoke.
Haiti, three weeks after the earthquake, residents still without help
This is the case of Albert, inhabitant of Anse-à-Veau, in the department of Nippes.
His house collapsed.
“
We made a small tent on the land of the neighbor opposite.
Here, when it rains, our yard is flooded.
We try to take shelter while we wait.
This is how we live with our children.
There are seven of us. So far we have not received any help.
Not even a bag of water,
”he explains.
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