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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts the global burden of disease will have declined 30 percent between 2004 and 2030 and that “mortality rates will continue to fall in most countries” — so long as economic growth continues. By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average.

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DEP Budget Testimony: Increasing Permitting Efficiency, Cleaning Up Legacy Pollution, Investing In Communities, Holding Companies Accountable

PA Environment Daily

Currently there are programs to reduce energy demand with rebates for electric heat pumps, water heaters, and kitchen appliances, and more opportunities will be available as the federal government finalizes the programs. DEP’s work has been guided, in part, by an Environmental Justice Policy adopted in 2004.

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Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning Herald

Environmental Progress

Just go on Google Maps, you can draw around a power plant, any power plant in the world, solar, wind, nuclear, gas, whatever, just draw around it. And then you have the power density calculation. I'm agnostic of whether cars will be hydrogen or electricity, but doesn't really matter. Nick: Yeah. Michael: No.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

Responsible for nuclear physics which has given us nuclear power, and nuclear medicine which has opened up new avenues of medical treatment for such things as cancer. It was also the age of electricity and the light bulb - a great age of invention. Sponsored Content.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Coalition for Competitive Electricity v. Circuit Court of Appeals. Zibelman , No. 1:16 -cv-08164 (S.D.N.Y.

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