Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Courtesy: NEA). William D Magwood IV.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea conditions in Ukraine have not exactly been peaceful and stable, and there has to some extent been a civil war ever since between groups loyal to Russia and those more loyal to the West and the EU. Kyiv is much more open to dealing with the climate crisis, due in large part to their closer ties to the EU.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

But rather than admitting that their product is causing the problem, they continue to insist on producing tar sand oil and crossing their fingers that risky and underperforming CCS technology will allow them to get away with it. Pourbaix is pushing hard to take us away from effective climate action, and getting very rich while doing it.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The first camp, those who have a blind deus ex machina belief that technology, together with human innovation and ingenuity will save the day, offers nothing reasonable to the debate. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The first camp, those who have a blind deus ex machina belief that technology, together with human innovation and ingenuity will save the day, offers nothing reasonable to the debate. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Notably, some suggest the 2018 Farm Bill reflects a new set of standards for conservation that incorporate new technologies and science, focus on soil health and climate resilience, and encourage action at the watershed level. An unfortunate result of the lapse in Farm Bill authority upon expiration of the 2014 bill was that 39.

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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, – but I want to highlight a minor little thing.

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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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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. Approving the Keystone XL is not investing in renewable energy or clean technology. There are political consequences. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself. I am an Oklahoman. I am a scientist. Tar sands oil.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. And political power with it.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the past 30 years of extensive political debate around global climate change, participants have largely ignored the role that curbing population growth could play in dealing with it. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

And a lot of the technology is very approachable.” Donnel Baird, the company’s CEO, and Kinch founded BlocPower in 2014. The two men, both Black, met 16 years ago while working on a local political campaign. “But the tech I’m teaching them, it bridges a lot of the gaps. “This is my purpose in life.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2014

Although New York City passed legislation to enable an Animal Abuse Registry in early 2014, the reasons more progress has not been made include (1) lack of respect for animals, speciesism, (2) allocation of funds to every other cause first, (3) the ongoing classification of animals as “property,” and (4) some combination of 1–3.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And newly-developed drilling technology allows operators to first drill downward and then horizontally for thousands of feet. Application of these “monster fracking” technologies has in recent years made the United States the largest oil and gas producing nation in the world. aquifers.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Seawater desalination is a hopeful technological solution for industry, farmers, and residents that do not want their businesses interrupted by water shortage, drought, and rising cost. coastlines is a much more complex environmental, economical, and political discussion. While simplistic. population growth. environmental impacts.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with the U.S.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The resulting closures caused great unemployment and hardship in coal-mining areas, together with much social and political violence and unrest in 1984-5. The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. Strong pushback.

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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

In both cases, the green band shows the official 2014 recommended value from CODATA, while the red line shows the (very precise) value obtained from muonic hydrogen. Mohr says it “made less sense to average” the large and small radii in 2014 than it did four years later, given the absence of independent confirmation at that time.

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Physics World

MARCH 3, 2022

Science fiction has always explored scientific possibilities, both current technology and the furthest reaches of what could still be described as science. The plot goes to some (for me) unexpected places that explore a range of ideas social, political and psychological.

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Physics World

MAY 8, 2021

The test also received a brief mention in The Imitation Game , the Oscar-winning 2014 biopic about Turing’s wartime code-breaking work. But then in 2014 a chatbot posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy fooled the benchmark 30% of the judges. But the underlying questions of representation, reasoning and how machines think remained.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. As for the two surveys of soil pollution, the first was of soil in general while the second focused on agricultural land. The first covered around 6.3 Pollution was found to breach standards at 16.1% of the sampling sites. of polluted sites. Forty years of change.

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

During its first years of operation, it was the most powerful example of particle accelerator technology in operation in Europe. Having achieved this technological leap, Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron would be used to make a more fundamental breakthrough at the heart of how matter behaves. Making strides and breaking laws.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

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. This will include holding power companies accountable and finding creative and innovative solutions along with increased incentives for renewables.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Billion AI Contract With Israel Richard Nieva | Forbes | September 12, 2022 Hundreds of Google and Amazon workers on Thursday staged protests around the country to speak out against the two tech giants’ cloud contracts with the Israeli government, fearing the military could use the technology to surveil Palestinians.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Billion AI Contract With Israel Richard Nieva | Forbes | September 12, 2022 Hundreds of Google and Amazon workers on Thursday staged protests around the country to speak out against the two tech giants’ cloud contracts with the Israeli government, fearing the military could use the technology to surveil Palestinians.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. Because these harms are all mediated by political behavior, it is impossible to conclusively refute claims that they “could” happen.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Following a five-week tribunal, it was found that KPMG staff misled the FRC during the latter’s routine inspections of the audit of Carillion’s accounts for 2016 and the accounts of Regenersis for 2014. With this in mind, the intent behind the prohibitions is to prevent Russia accessing these professional services.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Joe Manchin about holding up EPA nominations claiming “overreach” ) But this is not just about the political calculus of a president trying to make good on a climate pledge. And of course, last summer the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA,” says my colleague Prof.

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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] 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. The study authors concluded that higher variability was the main driver of higher costs. [18] trillion. [25]

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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