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HEI Energy, Penn State Study Uses 28,500 Water Sample Results To Help Identify Oil & Gas Industry Groundwater Pollution

PA Environment Daily

The research team highlighted their interdisciplinary research approach involving geoscientific analyses and community engagement. It has only been since 1984, when the first more comprehensive Oil and Gas Act was signed into law, that conventional operators began to be regulated in any meaningful way to prevent pollution.

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars

Physics World

University regulations at the time required that she sit in the front row. Sorting spectra Astronomers divide stars into different spectral categories, and early classification was based primarily on the strength of the hydrogen absorption lines in any spectra. The power of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s thesis speaks for itself.

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How climate change could sink the US real estate market

A Greener Life

” She started speaking out about her flooding issues in the spring of 2020. Permanently abandoning a community threatened by further disaster is a policy response that makes sense, rationally speaking. A Category 5 hurricane striking, say, the center of the Miami-Dade area would be a shock of a different magnitude.

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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Revving up the Engine: Senate Prepares to Pass Landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation for Transportation, Broadband, Energy and Water Projects

Arnold Porter

Grant applications must demonstrate how funding will be used toward public accessibility of charging infrastructure and how the grantee will engage collaboratively with stakeholders to foster enhanced public-private investments in EV charging infrastructure. Buy American Regulations.

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The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters

Science Blogs

Perry sees climate denial as evidence of being ‘intellectually engaged’. Trump regulators trigger pollution fight. Perry sees climate denial as evidence of being ‘intellectually engaged’. Groups see climate science review as chance to undercut regulation. Trump budget chief touts progress in rolling back regulations.

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Research briefing: why are reports of hate crime surging during the Israel-Hamas conflict?

Environmental Progress

‘In fact, the Supreme Court didn’t grant movies First Amendment protection until 1952, ruling in a 1915 case that movies could “be used for evil” and thus could have their content regulated.’ ‘The And the lack of activity in the orbitofrontal cortex meant “they weren’t engaging the part of the brain that would say, ‘this is bad.’