PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- PA Capital-Star: Gov. Shapiro Slams Presidents Tariffs As 'Disastrous, Reckless Policy That Will Drive Up Costs On Consumers, Businesses In Pennsylvania -- MCall: Gov. Billion In Products To China , $2.6 Ohio- $3.18 Ohio- $3.18

Politics

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

With some exceptions, federal agencies formerly defending Biden administration climate actions requested that the cases be held in abeyance to allow new political leadership time to be briefed on the litigation and to determine how to proceed. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nonetheless, potential policy changes in three areas could undercut new energy investment under a second Trump administration: protectionist trade measures and deglobalization; regulatory uncertainty and political risk; and fiscal and monetary policy. Regulatory Uncertainty And Political Risk Energy is a quintessentially global business.

2025

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Troubled waters ahead as BP lowers its climate ambition The influential investor was critical of the green energy-focused strategy former CEO Bernard Looney initiated in 2020 and has lobbied hard for the company to change course. Why are fossil fuel giants abandoning net-zero? Is BP finally moving beyond petroleum?

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 21, 2025

In partnership with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the station’s research focuses on the biology and behavior of sea lampreys and the recovery of native fish populations, while advancing technologies to improve sea lamprey control and fishery management. It’s happened before.

2026

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests. Commentators who had followed him closely said he had become radicalised. It is presented as a state-media publication platform.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

JULY 15, 2025

Europe, meanwhile, was recovering from the devastating First World War, and experiencing political and economic instability alongside flourishing artistic and intellectual movements. He also laid the foundation for novel technologies that are central to today’s “second quantum revolution”.

Technology

Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

Published online February 17, 2020 June Bacon-Bercey, 90, Pathbreaking Meteorologist, Is Dead , by Daniel E. Slotnik, the New York Times, January 7, 2020. She has covered education, politics and diverse communities, and her work has been published by NPR, Reveal , Marketplace , the Miami Herald and Houston Public Media, among others.

Atmosphere

Scientific American

AUGUST 6, 2025

Findings such as these are already shaping animal-welfare policy, says philosopher Jonathan Birch, director of the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Some researchers argue that AI in its current form could never develop an inner life.

2005

Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. Generation from renewable technologies more than covers the increase in electricity demand, also making up for coal and nuclear plant retirements. But solar is the big winner here, with it’s share of total US capacity increasing from 7% in 2020 to 29% in 2050.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.

Nuclear Power

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

McHenry then goes on to say that he is a co-sponsor of the Better Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Act, which he says “makes great strides in revolutionizing energy storage and U.S. electricity markets by updating grid scale technologies, which will make grid storage more widely available.” Seems almost too good to be true.

2018

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of degrees goal is threatened by political inaction. The technology to keep the planet under 1.5 degrees C is scientifically possible; the reason the world might blow past it is political.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

MARCH 11, 2022

As its clever title suggests, Tsu discusses not only written characters but also many characterful people from the Chinese worlds of computing, librarianship, politics, science and technology behind the transformation – most of whom are relatively unknown outside specialist circles.

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

Standing in the voting booth, I asked myself how it was possible that someone like me, who has devoted my career to studying political science and elections and who does research ahead of time, was encountering such difficulties just trying to cast my vote? For example, in 2020 New York, New Mexico, and Arkansas had more than 2.5

2008

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S. election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. They disproportionately impact people that financially are at the bottom of society,” said Sinha, senior vice president of the research group Environmental Consulting & Technology. .

2014

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Host a webinar series to STEM the Vote In order to bring scientific research and data into discussions on political concerns we organized a STEM the Vote series of webinars focused on the top voter concerns of the 2020 election. The topics included public health, climate change, gun control, education, food security, and immigration.

Politics

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. Is the state prepared for more?

2009

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Across the US data center energy use grew 66% from 2020 to 2023, from 90 billion kilowatthours to 150 billion kilowatthours. Wind, solar and battery storage are the fastest growing electric energy sources and should be the first choice for a modern economy adapting new data technologies. We just need to bring the political will.

Electricity

Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. Brand in 2020, via Cmichel67 at Wikimedia. Given this, being good at it would be better than being bad or merely blindly moving forward.

Carbon Dioxide

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Germany is a key European country when it comes to hydrogen and the most advanced in Europe in terms of electricity storage via hydrogen, the so called Power-to-Gas technology. In July 2020 the German government is taking over the rotating presidency of the European Union.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It says that just outcomes require full political participation, recognition of the underlying social drivers of privilege and oppression, and an understanding of the uneven distribution of impacts across space and time. To explore climate justice, I drew on the three-fold framework of justice theory. I restructured my Ph.D.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2024

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Natural Gas

Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It wasn’t an auspicious start to the commercialization of quantum information technologies (QITs). But that’s not unusual for a new technology. The UK’s National Quantum Technology Programme (NQTP) kicked off in 2013 with around £1bn promised over a 10-year period, and is now entering its second phase.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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Natural Gas

Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Safety – and the politics surrounding it – remains the single biggest issue influencing the development of nuclear power around the world.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Subsidies to the sector had fallen to $147bn in 2020 as the impacts of travel restrictions due to COVID-19 weakened demand, but they rebounded in 2021, rising by 29% to $190bn. Oil drilling rigs off Invergordon, Scotland. By Catherine Early.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Have technological capabilities to observe forest activity also increased? Advancements in both technological capabilities and in continuing access to these tools has been really important for tracking forest cover, deforestation rates, and increasingly, impacts from degradation. Gray: Yes, for sure.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5°C Our analysis also relies on the large-scale deployment of technologies capable of removing CO? Photo credit: Evgenii Parilov / Alamy Stock Photo. C in as little as a decade.

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. ” Energy Policy 140 (2020): 111428. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018).

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, for reasons explained below, this incentive-based safeguard has become ineffective, and since 2020 California’s bio-based diesel has increasingly been made from soybean oil, some of it sourced directly from South America. In 2020, every state except Alaska blended at least 9.5

Biofuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2024

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Earth Day

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The financial part of this Green Deal is the European Green Deal Investment Plan (EGDIP) , revealed on 14 January 2020. Source: The European Green Deal Investment Plan and Just Transition Mechanism explained, EC, Brussels, 14 January 2020, p. A legislative proposal will be presented in March 2020 to officially set it up.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

MAY 20, 2021

Arm Holdings doesn’t build the chips, but licenses its technology to virtually every semiconductor company on the planet. By the end of 2020, an estimated 160 billion processors had been built with its intellectual property (IP). I hope they make the right decision.

Technology