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Mountain Watershed Assn. Will Install Warning Signs Around Wastewater Outfall Of MAX Environmental Technologies Yukon Facility In Sewickley Creek, Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

On March 11, Mountain Watershed Association and Yukon community members announced they will install two informational warning signs on the banks of Sewickley Creek in Westmoreland County near the permitted discharge point of MAX Environmental Technologies Landfill #6 on March 16 at 11:00 a.m. Google Maps location ).

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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Source: ERM 2022 ). <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

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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. Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Frontiers wins coveted ‘Special Jury Prize’ at Vaud International Business Awards 

Frontiers

Founded by Kamila and Henry Markram in 2007 while at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Frontiers is now the ninth largest and the third most cited academic publishing house in the world. Headquartered in Lausanne, Frontiers now has more than 1,000 staff in offices across Europe, North America, and Asia.

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Molecular engineering of photoinduced charge separation

Physics World

He received the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Prize (2006), CSJ (Chemical Society of Japan) Award for Creative Work (2006), Osaka Science Prize (2007), NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) Researcher Award (2007) and was named fellow of The Electrochemical Society (2016).

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Source of fast radio bursts surprises astronomers

Physics World

The source of fast radio bursts (FRBs) first detected in 2020 is likely to be located within a dense cluster of ancient stars, according to astronomers led by Franz Kirsten at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. First observed in 2007, FRBs are short, intense pulses of radio waves of unknown origin.

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Magnetic oxides for water oxidation: magnetization, pinning effect and pH dependence

Physics World

Zhichuan Xu is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He received his PhD from Lanzhou University, Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008 with a period as an exchange student in materials chemistry at Brown University (2005–2007).

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