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25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America::The US Climate Alliance met in New York City this week to explain the benefits of heat pumps, including better health for American families.

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[โ€“] Kalkaline@leminal.space 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are they trying to do with that map? Why not just use a regular map so LA isn't west of TX?

[โ€“] FireTower@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

People try and make maps of the states where everyone is equal sized a lot for graphics because it's hard to label smaller states in an easily readable way. This messed up the geography though as seen above.