Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

And if the SMR were located closer to populated areas with no offsite emergency planning, more people could be exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste. SMRs may have a role to play in our energy future, but only if they are sufficiently safe and secure.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

This is because of black carbon’s enhanced ability to absorb visible light; it actually absorbs nearly a million times more energy per unit mass than CO 2. On top of this, some recent studies have found that the negative health effects of black carbon and other combustion particles may be worse than other sources (Janssen et al.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

What’s harder is knowing the carbon footprint of building materials throughout their lifecycle, which requires reams of data about supply chains and logistics that either don’t exist or have never been tracked. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions. Wood you believe?

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels. Why else use it?

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. Green-roofs buffer some stormwater, sequester carbon, and improve water quality.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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