PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). In other words, the Earth came within 30 ppm in CO2’s atmospheric concentration of witnessing the extinction of most land-based plants and all higher terrestrial life-forms – nearly a true climate apocalypse. Read more here.]

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Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Atmosphere Solar Power 98

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Powerful storms called atmospheric rivers brought nearly a foot of rain to parts of British Columbia, particularly the province’s southern region. According to Bloomberg news, under the terms of the agreement, Israel will buy solar power from Jordan. This is Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Physics World

JUNE 20, 2022

Extracting moisture directly from the atmosphere could provide millions of people with vital access to clean water. Solar-powered harvesters could produce clean water for one billion people. Many parts of the world experience some degree of water scarcity and the problem is expected to grow with increasing global warming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. There is no time to waste.

Climate Change 225

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Nitrogen Oxides 225

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. Focus on increasing truly renewable, low-emission energy such as wind and solar power.

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Fossil Fuels Air Pollution Waste Pollution Control 92

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). Source: UNEP 2022 Emissions Gap Report. The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

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Fossil Fuels 2030 Clean Energy Climate Change 193

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i]. A negative CI score would suggest an almost magical climate solution that pulls several carbon dioxide molecules from the atmosphere for each one that comes from the tailpipe of a truck running on dairy biomethane.

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Renewable Energy Carbon Dioxide 253

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Over the last 12 years, I wrote eight columns on the Koch network’s escapades, including: Its attempt in 2012 to scare consumers about the cost of state renewable energy standards, which require utilities to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by increasing their use of wind and solar power.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2007 Carbon Emissions 337

Frontiers

APRIL 26, 2022

While the energy output of a miniaturized nuclear fission device is location-agnostic, the productivity of solar-powered solutions rely on solar intensity, surface temperature, and other factors that would determine where a non-nuclear outpost would be optimally located.

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Nuclear Power Biotechnology Carbon Dioxide Solar Power 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Utilities and grid operators prepared for the storm as it was coming down the pike, but they still underestimated the energy demand it would trigger, as well as the number of outages at fossil fuel power plants—mainly natural gas-fired, plus some coal-fired plants.

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Fossil Fuels 2014 Climate Change Electricity 205

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Clear cutting forests and compacting and covering healthy soils for large-scale solar farms threaten to replace the vast array of benefits, with polluted runoff degrading streams, increased nuisance flooding, loss of critical wildlife habitat, and even the release of soil carbon back into the atmosphere.

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Fossil Fuels Solar Power Climate Change 2020 80

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Planned investments in energy efficiency will decrease the use of utilities on campus, while investments in electricity generation, including agreements for local hydroelectric and solar power that are already underway, will help ensure that the energy the University does consume is clean.

Clean Energy 57

Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Solar Power 2008 57

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Stroud Water Research Center Hosts 4 Workshop Series On Becoming A PA Certified Meaningful Watershed Education Experience Ambassador Starting April 19 [PaEN] -- Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil (..)

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Earth Day Natural Gas Clean Energy Waste 82

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here’s why the claims are wrong: UCS has pointed out that while gas burns cleaner than coal at a power plant, it is far from a “clean” fuel because it still results in significant toxic air pollution. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. .

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Electricity Natural Gas 273

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. In fact, 2020 brought the largest single increase in methane in the atmosphere since we started measuring this in the 1980s. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].

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Electricity Natural Gas Carbon Emissions Renewable Energy 52

Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

Australia’s bushfires, for example, will undoubtedly cause a jump in carbon concentrations in the atmosphere this year, and this affects us all. In Morocco, the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station is the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. Do you believe there is evidence for leap-frogging? Absolutely.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Solar Power Paris Agreement 2019 52

Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federal government.”. Yes, wind and solar power are rapidly becoming economic options. The data gap problem. Former Obama science adviser John Holdren.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Government Climate Change 52

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It could be atmospheric, sulfur injections and that kind of stuff. Ideally moveable homes, flat pack, whatever the case may be, all of these ways, wind and solar power. To decarbonize industries. To invest massively in alternative and renewable energy potentially. Potentially all of it is necessary.

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