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Replacing California’s Oldest and Dirtiest Cars Will Save Money and Lives

Union of Concerned Scientists

pollution from the use of older passenger vehicles (defined as model year 1976 through 2003) and newer ones (model year 2004 through 2021). For example, in rural Modoc, Trinity, and Sierra counties, more than 40% of vehicles are model year 2003 or older. Combining the PM 2.5

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PUC To Host March 28 Meeting Of PA Sustainable Energy Board

PA Environment Daily

and Pennsylvania Electric Co. The West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund will provide a summary of funding activities during the last 12 months, planned activities for 2024, and showcase its efforts on deploying sustainable energy technologies to impact a broader community in New Kensington and Kane, PA.

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China’s premier particle collider set for major upgrade

Physics World

They are then smashed together to generate a variety of subatomic particles inside the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII), which records the trajectories, energies and electric charges of the particles that are produced. . and a charged pion, weighed four times as much as a proton, and carried an electrical charge. GeV, decayed into a J /?

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

Finally, the bill adds the People’s Counsel as a member of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council. House Bill 44 reestablishes through fiscal 2023 the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Rebate Program and increases to $1.8 Prohibition on Balloon Releases.

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Solving the proton puzzle

Physics World

That much seemed true when the task group first published an official value of the proton radius – or, more specifically, the average radius of the proton’s electric charge – in 2002. For most constants, this process is not ambiguous as different results agree among themselves within the limits of their error bars. Decisions, decisions.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

We should want to move up the energy ladder — from wood and dung to hydro-electric dams, liquified petroleum gas (to replace wood and dung), natural gas (to replace coal), and then, yes, nuclear energy — and not down the energy ladder, which is what Malthusian environmentalists advocate. We were moving beyond the halls onto the world stage.”