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Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies

Legal Planet

SB 605 (2014) took the first step in methane-specific policy, directing the state’s Air Resources Board to create “a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants” such as agricultural methane. Current AMMP projects are anticipated to reduce GHG emissions by about 1.1 Conclusion. Download as PDF.

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Microalgae could be the future of sustainable superfood in a rapidly changing world, study finds

Frontiers

A more efficient food source The review highlights the current technologies for commercially developing and growing microalgae, as well as the scientific and economic challenges to scaling production.

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Arguments over Solar Geoengineering Research

Legal Planet

Concerns of this type have arisen in many areas of research and technology, notably going back to the first Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA experiments in 1973. First, they all rely on indirect mechanisms of risk, through bad decisions policy-makers or other actors could make based on knowledge or capability derived from the research.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. I will make four points in my testimony: 1. and around the world. and around the world.

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

As a result of cleaner-burning coal, the transition to natural gas, cleaner vehicles, and other technological changes, developed nations have seen major improvements in air quality. As a result, the cost of electricity went up, resulting in the deaths of a minimum of 1,280 people from the cold between 2011 and 2014.

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