Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 22, 2022
Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first. In Maryland’s Somerset County, an area facing both high rates of sea level rise and land subsidence, 2 percent of farmland was lost to salt between 2009 and 2017 , totaling over 1400 acres. .
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Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Extending the license of existing installations is particularly efficient in environmental and economic terms.
HumanNature
APRIL 10, 2023
But if they are thin and transparent, they reflect very little sunlight and instead trap a lot of the heat radiating from the Earth, resulting in a net warming effect. Retrieved March 31, 2023, from [link] “Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance” at NAP.edu. 2009, February 19).
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 17, 2022
A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. The federal government will eventually assume responsibility for the more than 50 defunct mills that generated this waste. It didn’t happen. The wells are being plugged.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm. They are also born smaller.
Environmental Progress
JULY 9, 2020
The governor of Florida uses a definition, the governments of New South Wales in Australia use different definitions. The main reason is that the government of Australia, as in California, refused to control burns for both environmental and health reasons. I was only coming slowly to pro-nuclear in 2009. Nick: I do know him.
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