“It was like five minutes ago but five years ago and five decades ago all at the same time. Steve remembers that Tuesday morning vividly, recalling every detail down to the coffee cup he was sipping from. ‘It’s been devastating to our family’: Deadly crashes on rural roads prompt new safety effortsĪt 15, Hannah had graduated from high school and began attending Pellissippi State Community College. TDOT wrote on April 4, 2017, to the Federal Highway Administration “our experience with X-LITE Terminals has revealed in-service performance that we believe does not provide adequate protection of motorists on our network of roads.” A Tennessee Department of Transportation official later said the it buckled like a telescope as designed, though Eimers disputes this, saying if it had operated properly his daughter would be alive. Hannah Eimers was killed five years ago this November when the silver 2000 Volvo S80 she was driving along I-75 near Niota left the road, traveled into the median and slammed into the end of a guardrail. Life has already taken too much from him. Since then, he is a man with nothing to lose. The determination and restlessness compelling him to action was born five years ago, the day his oldest daughter, Hannah, died in a crumpled heap of metal after her car was speared by a faulty guardrail end along Interstate 75 in East Tennessee. He believes the bill will keep people alive. Senate approved its version of the massive infrastructure bill that includes language from Eimers. The Lenoir City father of 10 has stretched his family and his finances thin in an unexpectedly successful campaign to rid U.S. Steve Eimers is not one to sit still for very long. “It’s really just symbolic of how the youth, the global youth movement is coming together and uniting and coming together as one community fighting for the same thing,” said Mitzi Jonelle Tan, an activist from the Philippines.LENOIR CITY, Tenn. “We are not going to let them get away with just talking and not doing anything and pretending the situation is under control,” she said.Īlso at the Stockholm protest were activists from developing countries, who said the voices of people most affected by global warming need to be heard in the climate debate. Thunberg said campaigners wanted to put pressure on leaders meeting in Glasgow next month to agree on tougher actions for tackling climate change. Her weekly “school strike for climate” helped inspire the international protest movement that saw regular, vast demonstrations before restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic curtailed such rallies. In Stockholm, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg took part in the protest. climate talks next month in her role as head of a caretaker government. The Union bloc is not part of those talks, though Merkel is expected to attend the U.N. 26 election ahead of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union bloc. Those parties include the center-left Social Democrats who came first in the Sept. Many called on the next German government to place greater emphasis on tackling climate change, with some protesters attempting to blockade the offices of the three parties currently negotiating to form a coalition government. Thousands of mostly young people rallied at Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate, carrying banners featuring slogans such as “Act now or swim later” and “Don’t melt our future.” Protesters rallied in Uganda, Bangladesh, India, Italy, Sweden and Germany to call for measures preventing dangerous global warming levels and taking into account the plight of the world’s poorest, who are particularly hard-hit by climate change.
BERLIN (AP) - Environmental campaigners staged protests on several continents on Friday to press their demands for more government action to curb global warming ahead of the upcoming U.N.
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