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Forest Equity: What Indigenous People Want from Carbon Credits

Yale E360

To Indigenous leader Levi Sucre Romero, carbon credit markets have failed to respect Indigenous people and their key role in protecting their lands. In an e360 interview, he talks about how carbon brokers have taken advantage of local communities and why that must change. Read more on E360 →.

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The Year in Water, 2022

Circle of Blue

The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth. In this telling, when higher temperatures bite, victims are likely to suffer a hydrologic trauma: too much water or too little.

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NREL Releases Eighth Edition of Annual Standard Scenarios

Environment + Energy Leader

(Credit: Canva) The 2022 Standard Scenarios, a collection of forward-looking scenarios for the electricity sector in the United States, have been made available by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Based in part on up-to-date and transparent projections of technology cost and performance, the suite provides a scenario framework for. Read more ».

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Concealing Plutocracy

Legal Planet

Rooftop Solar: Banned By Billionaires? The LA Times’ inestimable Sammy Roth reports on the attempt of California’s investor-owned utilities to end “net metering,” whereby utilities must pay customers with rooftop solar for their excess electricity. Roth has been highly skeptical of the utilities’ drive: it’s an age of climate crisis, and the state’s Public Utilities Commission is going to reduce payments to homeowners with solar??!!

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Which Wetlands to Protect? Supreme Court Will Soon Decide

Yale E360

The U.S. loses about 60,000 acres of wetlands a year. An upcoming Supreme Court decision could settle decades of legal ambiguity about which wetlands should get federal protection under the Clean Water Act, bringing major changes to how these vital ecosystems are managed. Read more on E360 →.

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What’s Up With Water – December 13, 2022

Circle of Blue

Transcript. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. Scientists are nearing a breakthrough in understanding the world’s water. Later this week, a new water-measuring satellite will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California. The SWOT mission, as its called, will measure weekly changes in the world’s major rivers, lakes, wetlands, and oceans.

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What Happens to Wind Turbine Blades at the End of Their Life Cycle?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Perched atop towers hundreds of feet tall, overlooking grassy plains or windy seas, sleek white blades trace slow powerful circles through the air. Can the life cycle of wind turbine blades , lasting about 25 years, be as circular as the elegant arcs they carve in the sky? This post will follow the wind turbine blade from “cradle-to-grave,” then explore solutions for a more responsible, sustainable life cycle.

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Not The Winds Of Change We Wanted

Legal Planet

Delhi, 2019: Don’t Breath The Air. For several years, India’s capital of Delhi has been synonymous with awful air quality: just living there is the equivalent of smoking nearly 2,000 cigarettes a year. So it shocked me when the Indian Express reported that last week, Bombay’s air was even worse than Delhi’s. Delhi’s AQI last week was an abysmal 263; but Bombay’s was a truly horrific 315.

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U.S. to Curb Private Ownership of Big Cats

Yale E360

The U.S. is set to enact a new law that prohibits private citizens from obtaining lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, and other big cats as pets. Read more on E360 →.

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Case Study: National Retailer Transformed Portfolio with Updated Building Controls

Environment + Energy Leader

Come to the session thinking about where your facilities are today and how you can transform them into the energy efficient smart buildings you want them to be tomorrow. The post Case Study: National Retailer Transformed Portfolio with Updated Building Controls appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Truck Loopholes 101 – When Emissions Regulations Don’t Match the Real World

Union of Concerned Scientists

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. This is the first time EPA has sought to limit emissions in over two decades, and it is long overdue. Unfortunately, one of the reasons the regulations have failed has to do with how manufacturers’ compliance with those regulations plays out in the real world.

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HERBS & BOTANICALS – THE MAKING OF ESSENTIAL OILS

Cleannovate

Scents and aromas improve our outlook of life. Imagine how life would be if we didn’t have the smell of … More.

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Weight of Microplastics Raining on Auckland Equal to 3 Million Plastic Bottles, Study Finds

Yale E360

Some 74 million metric tons of microplastics, the equivalent of more than 3 million plastic bottles, are falling on Auckland yearly, new research finds. Read more on E360 →.

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TradeSun Acquires Independent Ratings-Based Platform, Coriolis

Environment + Energy Leader

To accelerate ESG-compliant trade, TradeSun, a leading provider of artificial intelligence solutions for trade compliance and automation, has acquired data company Coriolis Technologies. The strategic acquisition will enable the global and regional banks that make up the TradeSun network to expand across the supply chain. This follows a partnership between the.

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Shaping a Resilient Future: Climate Impact on Vulnerable Populations

Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital

As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.

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Latest Round of USDA Climate-Smart Grantmaking is Both Better and More of the Same

Union of Concerned Scientists

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the second funding pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities on Monday. With $325 million in grants, this funding is intended to develop climate-smart agricultural products, spurring demand for products grown in ways that have measurable climate benefits, like reducing greenhouse gas emissions or sequestering carbon.

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Join the Grassroots Movement to Protect Ontario’s Environment

Enviromental Defense

Since the provincial government launched their latest round of attacks on Ontario’s environment in November of this year, there has been unprecedented public opposition to Bill 23 and the Greenbelt removals. We’ve mapped at least 85 different rallies between November 15th and December 13th from Windsor to North Bay to Ottawa. This movement has caught the attention of politicians and the media and is building new connections between environmental organizers throughout the province.

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Tokyo to Mandate Rooftop Solar Panels on New Homes

Yale E360

Tokyo is mandating that all new homes in the city be built with rooftop solar panels starting in 2025. Read more on E360 →.

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The Evergreen State College to Undergo $3.8M Energy Savings Retrofit

Environment + Energy Leader

The Evergreen State College in Washington state will undergo $3.8 million in energy savings upgrades. The post The Evergreen State College to Undergo $3.8M Energy Savings Retrofit appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Sustainability at Retail

Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.

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Just and Sustainable Solutions for the Mining and Recycling of Rare Earth Elements in Wind Turbines

Union of Concerned Scientists

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. Wind energy companies have a strong commitment to ensuring the sustainable, responsible life cycle of their turbines and are progressing towards achievement of fully circular supply chains.

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Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in largest trial yet

New Scientist

People who received a personalised melanoma skin cancer vaccine on top of a standard treatment were 44 per cent less likely to die over the study period than those who had the standard treatment alone

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Finding the Antidote to Climate Anxiety in Stories About Taking Action

Inside Climate News

Launched in 2021, Pique Action is a media startup committed to telling stories about climate solutions. By Kiley Bense The video opens the way many TikToks do: an unsteady close-up of someone talking, with the contours of a bright living room visible behind her. “Extremely good news,” she says. “We are going to prevent between a half and a whole degree of warming.”.

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HP Commits to Net-Zero Goals Internally and Across Its Value Chain

Environment + Energy Leader

By 2040, HP aims to hit net zero — not just in its operations and among the fuels it buys but also in its value chain: its Scopes 1,2, and 3 emissions. The post HP Commits to Net-Zero Goals Internally and Across Its Value Chain appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Statement from Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager, regarding the Ontario Government’s harmful decision to proceed with removing 15 protected areas from the Greenbelt

Enviromental Defense

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – Today, the provincial government affirmed its violation of its commitment to the people of Ontario to never touch the Greenbelt. The amendments to Ontario’s regulations found here and here confirm that 15 separate parcels of land totalling 7,400 acres, including 4,950 acres from the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Reserve on the boundary of Rouge National

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Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by New Scientist

New Scientist

Nuclear fusion, infectious diseases and an incredible new space telescope were ongoing stories in 2022, but what were some of the other big scientific developments, discoveries and events of the year?

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How control of nature shaped the international order

Environment, Law, and History

Posted recently to International Law Reporter, a nomination by Gail Lythgoe for the most interesting, important, or influential article or book published in 2022: Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order (Manchester Univ. Press 2022) This book explores the geographical imaginaries of three rivers (the Rhine, Danube, and Congo) and how these very imaginaries shaped the constitutions, structure, and life of three early international organizations.

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Global EHS Market Value Reaches $9 Billion by 2027

Environment + Energy Leader

Increased technology use and sustainability efforts especially in industries such as energy and waste will drive the growth. The post Global EHS Market Value Reaches $9 Billion by 2027 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty

PA Environment Daily

On December 12, the Associated Press reported the Department of Environmental Protection lifted a 12-year old ban on shale gas drilling under Dimock, Susquehanna County the same day [November 29] Coterra Energy (formerly Cabot Oil & Gas) pleaded no contest to criminal charges by the Office of Attorney General for polluting their water supply. Read more here.

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Unlimited energy from fusion became a more feasible prospect in 2022

New Scientist

Landmark confirmations of physics theory, including an energy production breakthrough at the end of the year, have turned fusion power stations into an engineering challenge rather than a physics one

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A Rancher’s Owls

Cool Green Science

We crouched down, watching the little owls from a couple feet away. They seemed slightly perturbed but made no move to fly away or disappear down a hole. Burrowing owls. I suffered a bit of that disorientation that can come… The post A Rancher’s Owls appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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DOE Grants $2.5 Billion Battery Manufacturing Loan

Environment + Energy Leader

The financing will help a joint venture from GM and LG Energy Solution build facilities in three US states. The post DOE Grants $2.5 Billion Battery Manufacturing Loan appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Better Path Coalition: 65 Organizations, Businesses, 2,700+ Individuals Petition Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Ban Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater

PA Environment Daily

On December 12, the Better Path Coalition delivered signatures from 65 organizations , institutions, and businesses, and more than 2,700 individuals on a letter and petition calling on Governor-Elect Shapiro to ban road spreading of conventional drilling waste. The delivery comes with the release of the Coalition’s update of its Moratorium Morass report on the anniversary of its release.

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Wintry scenes top Weather Photographer of the Year competition

New Scientist

Christopher Ison's photo of Storm Eunice and Zhenhuan Zhou’s shot of Niagara Falls covered in ice have taken the top prizes in the Royal Meteorological Society’s annual competition

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Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

Inside Climate News

Local non-profits and a tribe that recovered from earlier blazes are critical allies for communities threatened by floods after the largest fire in state history. By Sara Van Note GALLINAS, N.M.—On a warm August day, a small crew arranged charred logs and rocks into a structure to slow flooding below a dammed pond in New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains.