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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

What has not been abundant is the political will to enact these reforms, and CARB’s reluctance to initiate a rulemaking reflects this trend. It’s not hard to see why CARB has taken this approach: dairy digesters are a technological intervention that require little change to the operation of industrial dairies.

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Greenland Dispatch #1: the Courage to Face Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet. But science also tells us that we have most of the technologies and solutions that we need.

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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University Of Pittsburgh European Studies Center: Just Energy Transition Workshop Online Event June 3-4

PA Environment Daily

For countries that have made significant adoption of renewable energy, how can policies be designed to further expand renewable energy adoption, while ensuring broader sharing of benefits, both as a valuable end in itself and in order to sustain political support for the energy transition. Other speakers include-- -- Patrice Geoffron (Ph.D.

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China’s premier particle collider set for major upgrade

Physics World

The proposal to build the BEPC, which lies in the west of Beijing, was approved in the early 1980s when China emerged from the Cultural Revolution – a nationwide political movement that had disrupted research and education. In particular, in 2012 BESIII recorded collisions that pointed to a particle that researchers were not familiar with.

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Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice

Union of Concerned Scientists

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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Brilliant polymath, troubled person: how John von Neumann shaped our world

Physics World

Coining the phrase “zero-sum game”, the treatise would change economics and introduce game theory into political science, military strategy, psychology and evolutionary biology. Von Neumann accepted that there was no “complete recipe” for avoiding human extinction by technological means. 2021 Allen Lane £20hb 368pp.