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Seeing the Earth through alien eyes: an extraterrestrial view of our planet

Physics World

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. One is transmission spectroscopy, which looks at the spectrum of starlight that has passed through an exoplanet’s atmosphere. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey —one of the worst—drenched Houston with more than 4 feet of rain, killed at least 88 people, and caused $125 billion in damage. Since 2017, Moody has received nearly $339,000 from oil and gas companies and electric utilities as well as $300,000 from RAGA, according to Transparency USA data.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. 3692 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop climate impact management plans for marine mammals that are at significant risk due to climate change.

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Identifying the Means to an End: The Role of the Social Cost of Carbon

Arnold Porter

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. 2017); [link].]] 2019); Birckhead v. FERC , 925 F.3d

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The full House passed the Coastal and Ocean Acidification Stressors and Threats (COAST) Research Act (H.R. Overall, President Biden requested $6.9

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