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Tracks of my tears: the true meaning of Peter Higgs’ emotion at CERN in 2012

Physics World

Crying eyes Peter Higgs on 4 July 2012. Captured at CERN’s main auditorium on 4 July 2012, the video shows the British theoretical physicist holding a tissue as lab bosses announce that the Higgs boson has been discovered. Courtesy: CERN). Nobody who has seen the images will forget Peter Higgs’ watery eyes. The critical point.

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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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Illinois Utilities Ameren and ComEd Plan for the Grid of the Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), Ameren’s distribution grid expenditures nearly doubled between 2012 and 2020, jumping from $456 million to $857 million. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. Over the same period, ComEd grid investments went from $1.3 billion to $2.2

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A Buried Treasure Trove of NEPA Documents

Law Columbia

It had many good recommendations for using technology to modernize the environmental review process and it said positive things about NEPAccess but it said nothing about extending its funding or creating anything like it elsewhere. Northwestern Universitys Transportation Library holds print copies of most EISs prepared before 2012.

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A Buried Treasure Trove of NEPA Documents

Acoel

It had many good recommendations for using technology to modernize the environmental review process and it said positive things about NEPAccess but it said nothing about extending its funding or creating anything like it elsewhere. Northwestern University’s Transportation Library holds print copies of most EISs prepared before 2012.

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Dam Battles Converge on Cambodia’s 3S Rivers

Circle of Blue

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. The analysis showed, however, that overall evaluations of environmental losses from hydropower dams have increased since 2012.

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EVs Are at a Turning Point, It May Not Be What You Think

Union of Concerned Scientists

In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ).