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Bad News: Ontario offers contracts for six new polluting gas projects

Enviromental Defense

Many studies, including ones from the David Suzuki Foundation and Toronto Atmospheric Fund have shown that Ontario can easily meet its growing electricity demand with renewable sources like wind and solar. It seems obvious that we should remove the middle process and use solar and wind power for our electricity needs directly.

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Renewable Energy Efforts Highlighted in Draft Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Louisiana

The Energy Law Blog

Invest in research for utilizations of captured carbon and life cycle analyses to understand their overall impact: The capture and use of carbon dioxide to create valuable products has potential to lower the net costs of reducing emissions and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Associated Submitted Action Proposals: n/a).

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Biden administration lays out strategy to protect endangered whales during wind power development

Environmental News Bits

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Thursday finalized their strategy on the protection of endangered North Atlantic right whales in the offshore wind power development process. Read the full story at The Hill.

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Lingering Climate Injustice in Bowling Green, KY

Union of Concerned Scientists

Both temperature and moisture levels are expected to increase with climate change, the latter because a warmer atmosphere can essentially hold more water vapor,” my colleague Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, Director of Climate Science at UCS, wrote in her blog post following the tornado outbreak.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. filed Oct.

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Policy News: July 12, 2021

ESA

Amid competing House and Senate proposals to increase funding levels for the National Science Foundation, the House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill covering NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The bill includes $9.63 billion for NSF, a 13% increase over last fiscal year.

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

House: The full House of Representatives voted to overturn a Trump administration rule that stopped the EPA from directly regulating methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. This measure effectively restores Obama-era methane regulations, which could eliminate emissions of 400,000 tons of methane through 2030.

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