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What are the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Through this post, I’ll guide you to what I have learned about this topic, from the more well-known implications of artificial intelligence in terms of Energy to other less well-known impacts regarding water use and air pollution. electricity consumption and projections to 2028 fall within 6.7% to 12% (300+ TWh to 500+ TWh).

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Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost? Part 2

Enviromental Defense

Goldman Sachs analysis predicts that by 2028, AI will represent about 19 per cent of all data centre power demand. Coal plants are being kept online or converted to gas facilities specifically to meet this growing demand. According to the International Energy Agency , data centres accounted for around 1.5

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The “Big Beautiful Bill” is One Damn Dirty Deal

Legal Planet

Advocates campaigned for cleaner vehicles to cut pollution, and California led a lawsuit by 16 states seeking to electrify the mail trucks. C alifornia’s intervention “played a big part in stopping USPS from committing to decades of air pollution around the nation,” Liane Randolph, head of the state’s Air Resources Board, said.

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Oil and Gas Industry’s Mating Call Strikes a Sour Note 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Advanced Clean Cars II rule would require 100% EV sales in California by 2035 and strengthen tailpipe emissions standards, resulting in an estimated 1,200 fewer deaths fro m air pollution by 2040. The rule required a waiver because it’s stronger than the federal Clean Air Act, and 13 states have already approved similar standards.

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The Good, the Bad and the Utter Contempt

Legal Planet

Senate pollution: The Senate voted 52-46 to overturn an EPA rule limiting the 7 most hazardous air pollutants emitted by chemical plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities, reversing one of Bidens major regulations. Sammy Roth moderates a killer panel on where the climate movement is going during Trump 2.0

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New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes; No Update On University Of Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Health Impacts Study

PA Environment Daily

The 2023-2028 SHIP was developed in collaboration with the Healthy Pennsylvania Partnership (HPP), with support from Harrisburg University. In 2018, “the name of the program was changed to Oil and Natural Gas Production to cover potential health impacts from both conventional and unconventional oil and gas production.”

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Environmental Health Project: CNX Resources Claims Shale Gas Drilling Poses No Public Health Risks Are ‘Misleading, Irresponsible, Dangerous’

PA Environment Daily

Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources, a shale gas extraction company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, announced a collaboration on environmental monitoring and chemical disclosures. The CNX report cited data monitoring associated with the collaboration and declared that its shale gas development “is safe and poses no public health risk.”