Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

States’ roles in electricity decisions stem from their authority over public health, safety, and consumer protection. Clearly, states’ adoption of clean energy standards put them into forward-looking roles, and often with authority over compliance with those standards.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And while the State—and consumers—will have to wait years for SB 253 and 261 reporting, AB 1305’s requirements kick in next year (though the bill’s author, Assemblymember Gabriel, has clarified he didn’t intend companies to need to comply until January 2025). The Governor did sign other laws designed to advance electrification, though.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 19, 2022

Author Y-Vonne Hutchinson shares five key insights from her new book that can help guide a courageous conversation. Read the full story at Fast Company.

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MARCH 7, 2022

A consortium, led by the University of Massachusetts-Lowell’s Toxics Use Reduction Institute, that evaluates safer alternatives to coatings containing hexavalent chromium used in the aerospace and defense industry has published its final results for conversion coatings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

I had the opportunity to explore and use this dataset as a co-author on a peer reviewed wildfire attribution study last year, which found that nearly 40% of the total area burned in forests in western North America since 1986 is attributable to emissions traced to the top 88 carbon producers.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to meet May 10 on legislation to narrow the grounds of appealing DEP actions, authorizing special “stream cleaning” permits and renaming DEP to the Department of Environmental Services. I'm open to that conversation going forward, but I want a chance to fix this first.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Join this conversation with the author of this model ordinance to learn more about it and what you can do to advocate for it in your municipality. During this webinar, we will share what we have learned and offer suggestions for how to draft an effective zoning regulation. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Below is an abridged version of our conversation. To make sure that doesn’t happen, local, state, and federal authorities need to guarantee transit agencies’ financial stability so they can expand service, generate more ridership, and grow fare revenue.

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Legal Planet

MAY 3, 2022

To advance this conversation, CLEE and the Emmett Institute convened a small group of experts to discuss opportunities to improve the market for debris material. The pilot projects are spread throughout the state, and local leaders jointly manage the entities under combined local land use authorities delegated by local government partners.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Soon, these Americans, inhabitants of the last isolated fishing community in Virginia, will become climate change refugees, forced to relocate,” said lead author David Schulte, College of William and Mary, US. The authors estimate that fully protecting and restoring the town would cost roughly between $250m and $350m.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 9, 2022

So, the Academy reached out to children’s book authors Lena Champlin and Jeremy Wortzel to learn more about their work, Coco’s Fire: Changing Climate Anxiety Into Climate Action , and how we can start this very important conversation with our peers and young friends. Tell us about yourselves.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Asaro and other authorities call these dead stands of trees “ghost forests.” Only 25,000 of the original 125,000 acres remain , and they are New Jersey’s primary victim of ghost forest conversion. . In Maryland, one study found 84,000 acres of ghost forest conversion. When that turns into a marsh, they lose that identity.”.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On September 30 and October 1 & 2, people from across Pennsylvania will be converging in Harrisburg to change the conversation on climate change at the PA Climate Convergence. Among the scheduled events are-- -- September 30: Wildfireside Chat with Bill McKibben: Bill McKibben, author and one of the founders of 350.org

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As Michigan agencies prepare to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years in federal infrastructure and pandemic relief funds, the report authors say that the time was ripe for a deeper understanding of who is hurt by unaffordable water. Economic conditions in Detroit are not the same as in Denver or Dallas.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Grady said Berner’s solar journey began with a conversation with Sharon Pillar, the executive director, and Leo Kowalski, the program director, of the nonprofit Pennsylvania Solar Center. The authority’s board on January 8 awarded the bid for the $1.2 It is a step towards sustainability,” Grady said. “It Read more here.

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Physics World

APRIL 4, 2022

Senior author Eijiro Miyako explains that combining a non-pathogenic bacterium with a functional nanoparticle can help control immune response in host cells, while also maintaining its genetic stability. Incubating the resultant nanoparticles with Bifidobacterium bifidum produced the modified bacteria.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This research, which immediately sparked conversations and renewed calls for corporate accountability, is particularly fascinating because it combines climate modeling, interdisciplinary archival research, and corporate accountability —some of my favorite topics! Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2023

The PA Organization for Watersheds and Rivers , Stroud Water Research Center , Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Program will host a May 17 webinar on Putting Water Quality Data To Work Locally - A Conversation Cafe from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The same month Chinese authorities closed Toyota and Foxconn factories in Sichuan province, a leading manufacturing center, after a record-breaking heat wave curtailed hydropower output and strained the electric grid. French authorities trucked water to more than 100 towns. . Brett Walton. Brett Walton.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I recently sat down virtually with one of the report’s lead authors, Steve Clemmer , director of energy research for the UCS Climate and Energy program, to ask him some questions about his team’s findings. Below is an abridged version of our conversation. That would be potentially disastrous.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It is a conversation that she began having with her partner Jeremy Wortzel, a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania who is pursuing child psychiatry and is interested in how the environment impacts mental health. You can work with your child to join these conversations and learn together.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

If I don't have the resources to do some of that internally, then I think it's time to have a conversation about what's the best way to do that. I'm open to that conversation going forward, but I want a chance to fix this first.” Read more here. The meeting will be held in Room 8E-A East Wing starting at 12:30 p.m.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the weeks since late October, when the province tabled its various proposals, conservation authorities and regional and municipal governments have published reports and statements containing their preliminary evaluation of the effects they are expecting within their jurisdictions. Image courtesy of Conservation Ontario.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The report’s authors say that although 2020 broke the record as the deadliest year for environmental activists, the numbers are likely even higher, since many attacks are not reported. A water “pavilion” will be a hub for conversation and a way to put water in the climate context, reminding delegates that climate change is water change.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Derrick reported, “The program is designed to facilitate interactions and spark new conversations between local leaders and conference attendees concerning future opportunities and lessons learned from the region’s 164-year and counting experience with-- and environmental recovery from-- the early oil and gas industry.”

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2022

A Conversation with Author Erica Gies – The problems and opportunities that spring from a mismatch between the natural world and the built environment are the topic of Water Always Wins, a new book from journalist Erica Gies. Last year, the country’s Agriculture Ministry decided to cut irrigation water allocations by half.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Co-author Brittany Blakey. TMH was open to the deal, and the following email correspondence ensued: President of TMH emails to selling overriding royalty owners’ attorney Butler: “Pursuant to my conversation with [override owners’ spokesperson], I will sell my retained ORR in the Gulftex proposed 300+ acre unit for $20,000.”

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Frontiers

MAY 5, 2023

Credit: Frontiers During the conversation they all agreed that, while the level of support offered may differ depending on the type and size of the funder, all share a common objective to facilitate open access publishing and other open science practices for researchers.

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Physics World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Characterization approaches to spatially locate and resolve insertion and conversion processes, and distinguish productive and parasitic processes in functional systems are discussed. She has mentored more than 50 student researchers and co-authored more than 200 publications. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

announced it has begun providing renewable natural gas (RNG) for the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority in Bellefonte, Centre County, supporting a transition to a cleaner, low-carbon fuel produced from organic waste. This will support WM in meeting its goals of fleet conversion from diesel to RNG. “WM

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Aimed at children in Hingoli district of Maharashtra in western India, the book is a conversation between a girl and boy (Lila and Gopu) about the LIGO gravitational-wave detector that is planned for the area. In the book, Lila explains gravitational waves to Gopu, starting with Einstein’s suggestion of their existence in 1915.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

WEDNESDAY 10:00: House Local Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 31 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) authorize boroughs and cities to adopt stormwater management fees; House Bill 32 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) authorize Townships of the First Class adopt stormwater management fees. Click Here to watch online. Read more here.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 5, 2023

Scientists are looking to trailing edge forests, areas that are expected to experience range contraction and possible landscape conversion, for insight and lessons on how to manage this ever-changing landscape. Washington is home to 2.7 million acres of forest landscape in need of urgent restoration. Credit: TNC/Zoe van Duivenbode.

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Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

She is the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion research group. She is also the author and co-author of more than 210 peer-reviewed journal articles and two book chapters, and holds five issued patents.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Applications Due May 15 -- NRCS-PA Now Accepting Applications For 2023 Conservation Innovation Grants [PaEN] -- WESA: Pittsburgh Water Authority Outlines Stormwater Mitigation Draft Plan In West End -- Pittsburgh Water Authority: Join A Stormwater Conversation Near You Discussing Stormwater Management Planning -- Pittsburgh Water Authority Receives (..)

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“The crews in such missions tend to reduce their communication with mission control during isolation, sharing their needs and problems less and less,” said Dr Dmitry Shved, of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Moscow Aviation Institute, as well as an author of the study. Promising for future colonists.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2024

Climate change is inside us,” said Clayton Aldern, a neuroscientist and author of the forthcoming “The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains,” one of a number of recent books and studies that delve into how climate change affects our brains, our mental health, and the connections we make with each other.

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