New Scientist

APRIL 17, 2024

Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks, according to a field study in Ireland

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Countries that commit to the pledge are asked to take comprehensive domestic actions to achieve that global target, focusing on standards to achieve all feasible reductions in the three main methane emitting sectors: energy, waste, and agriculture. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

Plugging wells to stop the vertical flow of fluids and gas is critical to preventing ground and surface water contamination and the release of climate-changing methane gas into the atmosphere. There was the same sort of “uniformity” among reporting how waste was disposed in other disposal categories as well. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. But people need to see things. You can’t just tell people about things. They won’t listen.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Orphaned and Abandoned wells present serious risks to the environment and public health by polluting groundwater and leaking methane into the atmosphere. This well site is an example of those impacts – where residents can’t drink their water because of this orphaned well,” said Acting DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

Along those lines, it adopts a systems approach in tackling the climate crisis by investing in and expanding a vast set of interconnected programs that includes supporting improved agricultural practices on crop and livestock operations, expanding renewable energy use on farms across the nation, and helping to curb food waste.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, DEP said 89% of conventional oil and gas well owners failed to comply with the most basic requirement of the state Oil and Gas Act-- submitting a 2023 annual well integrity report for each of the wells they own to assure they are not contaminating groundwater, surface water or venting gas into the atmosphere.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

While the idea of capturing carbon pollution before it reaches the atmosphere sounds good, in reality, it doesn’t actually work. That oil then gets burned, adding more carbon pollution to the atmosphere than what was originally captured. Carbon capture is a greenwashing tactic The new subsidy is for carbon capture projects.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

Wasted energy, pollution and the noise. While Microsofts 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report references goals around construction waste and air filtration at its data centers, there is no reference to efforts to conserve the use of water. There are environmental and security and management issues. Think about the traffic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

plastics, concrete and refined metals) will mark the sedimentary record, unmistakably immortalizing human materialism and waste. We may also imagine that the appearance of synthetic materials (e.g. While all of these are compelling, they each present challenges and ambiguities.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Indeed, if loopholes related to lifecycle analysis and book-and-claim accounting are allowed through, incentives meant to drive the deployment of clean technologies could end up subsidizing some of the dirtiest options instead, including gas-fired power plants and waste incinerators. What’s “clean,” and how is it measured?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Where We Are With The Issue At a June 10, 2024 hearing on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would ban road dumping by the House Environmental Committee, DEP said, The Administration is supportive of this clear ban on the practice and views the Solid Waste Management Act as a sound vehicle for such statutory language. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2024

Two other wells by the same owner-- McCord Vineyards 3 and Design 1 were also inspected in North East Township and found to be in violation of multiple regulations including failure to restore the drilling site, failure to submit annual production, well integrity and waste generation reports and failure to notify DEP of defective equipment.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Marine CDR Governance under the London Convention and Protocol Two key international laws applicable to certain forms of marine CDR are the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) and the 1996 Protocol to the Convention (London Protocol).

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

At CLEE, we are doing quite a bit of work to promote reduction of methane emissions from all sectors (agriculture (livestock and rice), energy (oil & gas and coal), waste (landfills and sewage)). animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste). But with rapid methane cuts, we could prevent up to 0.3 °C

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

It is also known as natural gas – a product with economic value, estimated to be $30 billion — that we are squandering in massive quantities into the atmosphere. Second, it is a “short-lived climate pollutant” – meaning that it lasts in the atmosphere for a shorter period than the 100+ year life of CO2. Now What?

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The carbon-negative approach removes CO2 from the atmosphere and bypasses using fossil fuels to generate these chemicals. Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into commonly used, expensive industrial chemicals. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

US defense spending is at a record high, and there is no will in Congress to prevent waste and corruption. In the Cold War atmosphere of secrecy and paranoia, scientists played a critical role in educating the public, pressuring policymakers, and developing solutions to emerging technical problems.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 9, 2023

Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere – but experts aren't convinced it will work

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. New science has shown that the largest fossil fuel, dairy, and waste methane super-emitters contribute a sizeable fraction of the total methane emissions in the regions the study authors monitored. Other teams find similar results.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2025

On the coast of Newfoundland, waste from a shuttered asbestos mine has been a troubling source of contamination for decades. Now, a company plans to process the waste to draw CO2 from the air one of several projects worldwide that aim to turn this liability into an asset. Read the full story at e360.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

An energetic, bustling atmosphere was partly the point. World Bank researchers presented data showing waste and inefficiency in the sector. Wait times, at peak, were upward of two and a half hours. Inside the UN complex, crowds were just as prevalent. We’ve got to get trillions moving across economies,” he said.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Fingerprints might include traces of pollution in exoplanet atmospheres, lights on the night sides of planets, and even the waste heat from megastructures such as Dyson spheres. In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast astronomers discuss the search for signs of extraterrestrial technologies.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As the leading generator of plastic waste globally , and with only about 9% of this waste being recycled, the United States still has much to learn about what should and should not be sent to the dump. government in confronting the ocean plastic waste problem, both at home and abroad. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping emissions are on a relentless upward trajectory , as is the increase in global average temperatures. There is no time to waste. Meanwhile global carbon emissions continue to rise at an alarming rate, sharply rebounding from the brief dip during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

Venting Natural Gas During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad. Center Twp. Monroe Twp. - Cranberry Twp. Cranberry Twp.

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Onya

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Celebrations and parties of all kinds too often come along with unnecessary waste as it can be perceived that it is cheaper and easier to use disposable everything, however with a little pre-planning this does not have to be the case. Use this as an opportunity to get your guests on board with your zero waste thinking. Invitations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

This was a bad week for unconventional shale gas drillers who DEP inspectors found creating a new brownfield, unreported defective well casing or cementing on eight wells venting gas to the atmosphere and more spills. The site was not contaminated by industrial waste before the well pad was developed. Read more here. Read more here.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They do this by analysing the electromagnetic absorption spectra of an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transits its sun, seeking the presence of gases such as oxygen, methane, water vapour and ozone (a proxy for oxygen). Analogous to technosignatures, these are the signs of life on alien worlds, intelligent or otherwise. Picking up pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. Original violations issued March 7, 2025. No response requested.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You may have heard about a miracle cure for plastic waste that creates green energy in the process—the mystical waste incinerator. We know how many people want to rid the world of plastic waste and shift to sustainable energy. But there really is no miracle cure for waste. It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

million tons of methane into our atmosphere each year. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere. natural gas pipelines leak as much as 2.7 That’s roughly the same impact as 50 million passenger cars!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Under certain outdated accounting frameworks , the baseline assumption is that without voluntary intervention, methane from certain pollution sources would simply have been vented to the atmosphere. Without question, methane leaked to the atmosphere from manure lagoons and other sources of biogas is deeply harmful to the climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

million jobs in 2022, according to a report last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The prime ones are erosion and flood control, waste treatment, water purification, recreation, and tourism. Wetlands are the nurseries for commercial and recreational fisheries, which generated $321 billion and supported 2.3

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Physics World

MAY 13, 2022

These are tsunami-like oscillations in bodies of water that are caused by meteorological effects such as storms, weather fronts, and atmospheric gravity waves. Muons: probing the depths of nuclear waste. In their study, Tanaka’s team explored how muons could be used to study meteotsunamis.

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