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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

Union of Concerned Scientists

First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. While this authority—itself rooted in a prior Supreme Court decision , the 2007 Massachusetts v. What the Supreme Court decided in West Virginia v.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

The key word here is “ intensity :” Fossil fuel companies often focus on emissions intensity, meaning emissions per barrel of oil, rather than absolute emissions, which is a set number measured in metric tons. That means Exxon still plans to spend the vast majority of its funds on fossil fuel exploration and production.

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National Clean Energy Week Recap

Cresforum

imports peaked in 2007. need to deploy clean energy technologies to achieve net zero emissions? biofuels, and fossil fuels. Electrification will reduce overall fossil fuel use. Decarbonizes The United States’ energy security has changed dramatically since U.S. As the U.S. decarbonizes in a vacuum.

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The Stream, October 19, 2022: California City Approaches Water Supply Peril in Next Two Months

Circle of Blue

Taylor, a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Mine Cleanup Law Weakened by Coal’s Decline — Reclamation is a flashpoint for the partisan divide over fossil fuels. It is Syria’s first outbreak of the waterborne pathogen since 2007. Brett Walton, Interim Stream Editor.

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New periodic table focuses on sustainability, gaining a physics PhD age 89

Physics World

This is important if they are used in key technologies such as mobile phones, which is designated in the table using an icon. According to the European Chemical Society this reflects the serious threat to the environment that the burning of carbon-based fossil fuels poses and the fact that some oil is extracted in areas of conflict.

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The unconventional scientist who predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels would change the climate

Physics World

Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet. Writing in the 2007 book The Callendar Effect , James Rodger Fleming explains how the young Callendar was raised in a household full of “books and a vast array of technical gadgets”.