Environmental News Bits

MAY 27, 2022

A project that aims to capture and store underground carbon emitted by an east central Illinois ethanol facility is progressing after a series of successful preliminary tests and modeling.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. The conservatives (confusing called the Liberal Party) focused their climate policy on relatively small subsidies for cleaner energy. On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Bill C-50 is a necessary tool to set Canadian workers up for success in a low-carbon economy Countries around the world are choosing to ditch fossil fuels, like oil, gas and coal, to use renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of homes, cars and factories. This shift is a major opportunity for Canada.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Supply Chain Management Review recently published a two-part series on sustainability. Part 1 highlights Walmart’s Purchase Power Agreement with Schneider Electric to make sources of renewable energy available to five of Walmart’s suppliers.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

However, a new study by Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center has found that most TV and film scripts are ignoring the climate crisis, or failing to address it in a meaningful and realistic way. A study revealed that the circumstances crisis is no longer a topic that is touched on in Hollywood movies and series.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The possibilities for hydrogen in a clean energy transition? In his latest book, Rifkin argues that “the Age of Progress has given way to the Age of Resilience.”. For centuries human civilisation has been driven by the idea of progress, reinforced through philosophy and particular interpretations of science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

The diversion On Wednesday, March 23, a story from Energy News Network (EEN) described how one Jerry Cirino, state senator of Ohio, has introduced legislation that would require Ohio college and university instructors to include “false and misleading counterpoints” when teaching climate science. can be suspicious of climate action.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Announce 2024 Award Winners [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Outside Education, Experiences: Scovens Sisters Spark Students’ Stewardship Of Nature -- LancasterOnline: Mira Lloyd Dock Award Recognizes Marlisa Yoder-Bontrager For Tree Planting Efforts -- Energy Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Residents Concerned About Proposed Solar Energy Facility -- LehighValleyNews: With $4.6 Residents Concerned About Proposed Solar Energy Facility -- LehighValleyNews: With $4.6 Haddock -- EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4 Haddock -- EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4 Haddock -- EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4

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Frontiers

JULY 4, 2023

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including work on smart food for sustainable food systems , insights into computational sociolinguistics , findings on the collapse of avian biodiversity in the Anthropocene , and research on the future of energy efficiency. All ebooks are free to download, share and distribute.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This post, the second in a series exploring California’s new IGFC policy, surveys the history of fixed charges and income-graduated charges in rate design to contextualize how much of a break the new policy represents with past practice. Imposing the same costs on all ratepayers will disproportionately burden lower-income ratepayers.

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Frontiers

JULY 11, 2021

Current inventory methods used by cities vary globally, making it hard to assess and compare the progress of emission mitigation over time and space,” says co-author Dr Shaoqing Chen, of Sun Yat-sen University, China. Stationary energy and transportation were the two main sources of emissions. Key findings. The biggest polluters.

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Physics World

AUGUST 18, 2021

“The atoms inside the gas are all phase coherent, and they figure out that if they pile one on top of the other head-to-tail they can decrease their energy,” explains Francesca Ferlaino , an experimental atomic physicist at the University of Innsbruck’s Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information. “In Progress through competition.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Summit will bring together Pennsylvania’s leading sustainability experts, elected officials, state-agency leaders and policymakers for an exciting and informative series of conversations and presentations on the energy conservation and sustainability progress the commonwealth has made as well as the challenges it will face in the future.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2021

18 Making Riparian Buffers Work In Your Community Program [PaEN] -- PA Sustainable Agriculture: Listening Session - Siting & Design For Farm-Based Solar Energy Facilities Aug. 20 [PaEN] -- The American Chestnut Foundation: August 20 - Chestnut Chat Series: Participatory Chestnut Breeding 11:30 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

Related Articles - Watersheds: -- PennVEST Invests $194.3 Million In 28 Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Water Quality Improvement Projects In 20 Counties [PaEN] -- DEP Awards Susquehanna River Basin Commission $68.2

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2023

Introduces New Trail Academy Series Of Education & Training Events News From PA House & Senate The Feds Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events Grants & Awards PA Bulletin Public Notices Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This year our Frontiers Forum opened its virtual doors in a series of webinars attended by over 21,000 of the world’s leading minds, to discuss and accelerate science-led solutions to the grand challenges of our time. This year’s webinar series was no exception. The case for climate optimism.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2021

Degrees Celsius Of Warming DEP Forming New PA Energy Storage Consortium; Stakeholder Meeting Sept. 27 Penn State Extension Land Use Webinar Series Features Aug. 6 PA Sustainable Agriculture: Listening Session - Siting & Design For Farm-Based Solar Energy Facilities Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

Carbon-intensity, social inequality, vested interests, energy insecurity, and climate vulnerability are all present, in acute form. All of this makes the transition to cheap, renewable energy a necessity for the country. billion to support South Africa’s energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Even if we could snap our fingers and all of our cars and trucks ran on electricity generated by renewable energy sources, we would still have to deal with monster traffic jams, deadly car accidents, and road rage. I should add that Washington state’s progressive transit agenda didn’t happen due to a stroke of good luck.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The time series were included in the Hausfather et al (2020) paper and in the latest IPCC report: Evaluation of old projections of global temperature, including Manabe (1970) and Manabe and Stouffer (1993). Both these predictions have been evaluated in recent years to see how well they did. 145-163, 1988. Bjornsson, L.A. Mysak, and G.A.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2024

On January 4, 2024 , DEP inspected 12 conventional gas wells operated by Pin Oak Energy Partners LLC and found two-- Armstrong Forest 1232 (Ridgway Township, Elk County ) and Isoldi 1 (Mercer Boro, Mercer County )-- to be abandoned and not plugged. and found them to be abandoned and not plugged. Allshouse, Jr., Allshouse, Jr.,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

California has passed a series of bills which begin to address agricultural methane: SB 605 , SB 1383 , and SB 1122 , and it appears to be the only major jurisdiction within the United States to have done so. Cap-and-Trade Programs.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the ISO 14000 series so important. ISO 14000 series. In summary, the ISO 14000 series gives guidance for organizations to design, implement, and optimize an Environmental Management System. The ISO 14000 series can be used by any type of organization regardless of activity or operating sector.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This fundamental question is the focus of a research topic (RT) published by Frontiers launched earlier this year, overseen by topic editors including Prof Iain Stewart, titled ‘ Re-Purposing Universities for Sustainable Human Progress ’. But as a global community we have largely failed to communicate our worth.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

The four programs, tailored to different sectors, provide organizations with a step by step process to track and measure sustainability progress. All of the newly launched recognition programs enable better tracking of aggregated data, such as diversity, equity & inclusion metrics; energy usage; waste reduction; and water savings.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2024

5 - Progress On Cleaning Up Our Energy; The Role Of the Arts In Addressing The Climate Crisis - 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. -- Warren Times - Audubon Nature Center: Audubon To Host Sunday Story Time -- EPA, PennEnvironment, Moms Clean Air Force PA, PECO Host Jan. Of Agriculture: 2024 Pennsylvania Farm Show Website -- PA Dept. Cameron St.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition. But instead of meeting that straightforward aim, a series of implementation loopholes threaten to fully undermine it.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Read more here. -- On February 7, 2024, the Environmental Hearing Board issued an opinion and order granting part of an Apex Energy (PA) LLC motion to dismiss parts of a Protect PT appeal of the renewal of shale gas well permits at the Drakulic well pad in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. Read more here.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

The new “Josephson diode” operates in the absence of a magnetic field and could, they say, lead to a new generation of faster, more energy-efficient electronics. The ability to transmit such one-way currents in superconducting circuits could save significant amounts of energy. Physicists create quantum phase battery.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 11, 2022

Along with your support, we’re thrilled to have played a part in making more progress this year towards a thriving Washington for both people and nature. Joe Nguyen’s bill, SB 5722 , will require performance standards for energy systems in existing buildings and decarbonization of building heating and cooling loads.

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Physics World

MARCH 24, 2022

The reason is that most of these conditions – which include Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, autism spectrum disorder and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), among others – lack reliable tools for diagnosis and progression monitoring and, as such, are often misdiagnosed.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2021

Of Agriculture: Secretary To Tour Urban Gardens Building Resilient Communities -- Ag Progress Days: Exhibits Focus On Animal, Plant Diseases, Invasive Pests [Aug. Ballroom At Ellis Preserve, Newtown Square. Sponsorship Opportunities Available. -- Dept.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2021

before she had heard of dark energy or supernovae? – ?curiosity I’m now actually using those distances to prove how dark energy is changing or shaping the way we see the universe.”. through his magnum opus, the TV series Cosmos. García points out that these numbers dropped off still further as she progressed through academia.

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Physics World

JULY 1, 2021

Peer review is an essential component of scientific learning and progress, and yet researchers who are just starting out on their career are rarely schooled in the skills needed to provide a useful and constructive review. “It has shown us that there is a real appetite for this type of training.”

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