Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). “I He considered aerospace as a possible career, then computer technology. Magwood then became director of the office, making him the senior nuclear technology official in the US government.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Construction began in 2014. What is clear is that cost-benefit analyses increasingly show that power-exporting countries like Cambodia and Vietnam lose ecosystem services from dam projects to a far greater extent than they gain in hydropower benefits, especially as the cost of renewable energy technologies like solar continue to drop.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

Commissioner Stephen DeFrank, Vice Chairman of the Public Utility Commission, told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee in June-- “I think that Winter Storm Elliot, over the Christmas holiday, showed some vulnerabilities in our grid and in our system. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million. This [trade-off] demonstrates a proactive approach, as the nation actively pursues renewable energy sources [and] energy efficiency measures over a wide range of sectors and cleaner energy technologies,” says Kumar.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 22, 2021

As you may remember, we weren’t overjoyed at the results last session , which settled on a profoundly underwhelming short term measure to address the sector’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in addition to a diluted “ban” on heavy fuel oil (HFO) use in the Arctic that will only take effect in 2029. C warming scenario.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On its face, this might seem strange since our scientific models have long identified population growth as one of the two primary drivers of humanity’s increasing greenhouse gas emissions. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

But there is no place you can go on Earth that has not been modified by humans in some way – and we have been modifying our environments for tens of thousands of years through purposeful burning, species introductions & extinctions, agriculture, and now the rapid release of greenhouse gases causing global climate change. Jaquish, B.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

In response to a question about what will fill the gap between retiring generation and new clean renewables in the regional grid, Thomas said-- “I think the only thing that closes the gap is new technology. I mean, I think technology solves this problem and our current technology isn't there. “I I'll be honest. Read more here.]

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We knew that global greenhouse gases emission from energy had been peaking for the past three years – largely thanks to China – but now, here is another series of nails in the coffins of coal and oil. Additionally, energy efficiency technologies such as LED light bulbs are a major drive towards lower emissions.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Additionally, agriculture contributes 9 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions excluding the transportation, electricity, and industrial emissions associated with agriculture. An unfortunate result of the lapse in Farm Bill authority upon expiration of the 2014 bill was that 39. The recently passed 2018. smaller programs.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Utilizing manure nutrients efficiently means that risk of loss of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and greenhouse gas is minimized. Manure Expo combines 1) Educational Sessions, 2) Technology Demonstrations, and 3) an Industry Trade Show. NAME provided a vast two-day educational platform geared toward efficient nutrient utilization.

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide). Environmental Science and Technology 2014 , 48 (16), 8936–8943. This may result in previously forested areas shifting into other types of ecosystems, such as grasslands. link] (5) Bladon, K.

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Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? The version of the MSU2R product at the beginning of 2014 was version 5.5, McNider, "Satellite greenhouse signal", Nature , vol.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

If economic growth accelerates, then GHG emissions will accelerate (given current technologies). See my 2014 lecture. At a conference in 2019 that honored Frank Wolak, I pres ented these slides to make these points clear. John does not discuss the feedback loop. See the paper by Davis and Gertler in PNAS 2015 for an example.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

.” The Times article focuses on the alarming intersection of three current environmental crises–water supply shortages, groundwater contamination, and excessive greenhouse gas emission levels–that threaten California and other states across the nation.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

Buildings contribute 67 percent of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions , with apartment buildings representing the biggest share of that. And a lot of the technology is very approachable.” Donnel Baird, the company’s CEO, and Kinch founded BlocPower in 2014. “This is my purpose in life.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

technology – semiconductor junctions, transistors, lasers and so on. technology, which taps into phenomena like superposition and entanglement to permit everything from quantum computing and cryptography to quantum sensing, timing and imaging. technology, which taps into phenomena like superposition and entanglement.

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

In 2014, CAISO expanded the territory of its real-time market , through which utilities can buy small amounts of electricity to correct real-time fluctuations in customer demand and electricity dispatched by generators. Cost saving from improving market coordination could add up to $1.2

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. This is when the highly reflective properties of dark-coloured solar panels lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

At the end of March 2014, Working Group II (WGII) unleashed upon the global community their contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Instead, they should take immediate action to limit greenhouse gas emissions and foster development of adaptation strategies. Kristin Campbell.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. There are, however, several trial projects around the world that are trialling new technology that produces steel without burning fossil fuels. Strong pushback.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We have little time left to create a practical path to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.” of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050, as have many Atlantic states for future OSW . But today, it’s . Today’s young people are increasingly seeing themselves as the future victims.”. . eadly, fueled by .

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. Soil can both be a source of greenhouse gas emissions, by releasing carbon dioxide and methane, or it can fix organic carbon. As for the two surveys of soil pollution, the first was of soil in general while the second focused on agricultural land. of the sampling sites.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dr. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Faulconer has taken credit for the passage of the city’s 2015 Climate Action Plan, which requires the city to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. The sunshine state only receives 19% of its power from solar, and much of it doesn’t even use the latest technology.” In 2014, he said he was skeptical of climate science.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

First proposed in 2014, the 780-mile transmission line is intended to transport electricity generated by wind turbines in Kansas to customers in Indiana, passing through Missouri and Illinois along the way. greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Consider, for example, the Grain Belt Express Clean Line.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2014), [link]. [14]

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. 5]. [37].

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. On June 2, 2014 , this blog led with an almost-identical sentence about EPA releasing its rule to regulate climate change-related carbon emissions from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

As a result, 1,280 people died from cold from unaffordable electrical power, researchers calculate, between 2011 and 2014. [24] 31] Many energy experts are enthusiastic about solar panels, but new information has called the social and ethical value of the technology into question. 30] By contrast, today’s energy system requires just 0.5

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% 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.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2021

12 - Advancing Your Organization’s Carbon-Reduction Goals Webinar. 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. -- WESA: With No Climate Action In Congress, CMU Prof Says Fed ‘Green’ Interest Rate Could Help, But Some Warn Of Risks -- TribLive/AP: Northwest U.S. Million Gift -- ReadingE Guest Essay: Why A $28.5 Million Gift -- ReadingE Guest Essay: Why A $28.5

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Irrigation water used per bushel of corn has declined by nearly half since 1980, while greenhouse gases declined 31 percent. [19]

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 2, 2023

The proposed changes will no doubt be significant for projects that substantially increase greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. Adding climate change is consistent with recent interim NEPA guidance on how agencies should assess a project’s greenhouse gas emissions. If finalized, the rules may also be challenged in court.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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