Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

States’ roles in electricity decisions stem from their authority over public health, safety, and consumer protection. Clearly, states’ adoption of clean energy standards put them into forward-looking roles, and often with authority over compliance with those standards. Where do we go for that modern infrastructure?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If 2022 was a Rivian with all the bells and whistles, this past year was more a Ford Lightning. And 2023 was a high-water mark in terms of bill introductions, with lawmakers considering upwards of 2,600 bills; scores of them covered climate change, energy, and environment-related topics. These laws are an important step in the right direction.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 19, 2022

Author Y-Vonne Hutchinson shares five key insights from her new book that can help guide a courageous conversation. Read the full story at Fast Company.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2023

Conversely, reforms that increase land-use restrictions and lower allowed densities are associated with increased median rents and a reduction in units affordable to middle-income renters. percent increase in housing supply within three to nine years of reform passage, accounting for new and existing stock. All that Sturm Und Drang for a 0.8%

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2022

A consortium, led by the University of Massachusetts-Lowell’s Toxics Use Reduction Institute, that evaluates safer alternatives to coatings containing hexavalent chromium used in the aerospace and defense industry has published its final results for conversion coatings.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to meet May 10 on legislation to narrow the grounds of appealing DEP actions, authorizing special “stream cleaning” permits and renaming DEP to the Department of Environmental Services. The meeting will be held in Room 8E-A East Wing of the Capitol starting at 10:30 a.m.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

I had the opportunity to explore and use this dataset as a co-author on a peer reviewed wildfire attribution study last year, which found that nearly 40% of the total area burned in forests in western North America since 1986 is attributable to emissions traced to the top 88 carbon producers.

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Legal Planet

MAY 3, 2022

To advance this conversation, CLEE and the Emmett Institute convened a small group of experts to discuss opportunities to improve the market for debris material. To advance this conversation, CLEE and the Emmett Institute convened a small group of experts to discuss opportunities to improve the market for debris material.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Below is an abridged version of our conversation. In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Soon, these Americans, inhabitants of the last isolated fishing community in Virginia, will become climate change refugees, forced to relocate,” said lead author David Schulte, College of William and Mary, US. By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer. House and walkway to the house are both raised, the yard of the property is wetlands.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Join this conversation with the author of this model ordinance to learn more about it and what you can do to advocate for it in your municipality. Join this conversation with the author of this model ordinance to learn more about it and what you can do to advocate for it in your municipality.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Asaro and other authorities call these dead stands of trees “ghost forests.” Matthew Kirwan / VIMS. By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – September 14, 2022. Sea level rise is causing ghost forests to expand along the east coast, with hotspots in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 9, 2022

So, the Academy reached out to children’s book authors Lena Champlin and Jeremy Wortzel to learn more about their work, Coco’s Fire: Changing Climate Anxiety Into Climate Action , and how we can start this very important conversation with our peers and young friends. Tell us about yourselves. Tell us about yourselves.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

The bill, SB 1492 , removes local governments’ authority to adopt heat protections, such as guaranteed shade and rest breaks for workers. Take the latest, science-backed climate policies that are gaining traction in state houses around the country — and then do the exact opposite.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As Michigan agencies prepare to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years in federal infrastructure and pandemic relief funds, the report authors say that the time was ripe for a deeper understanding of who is hurt by unaffordable water. A growing number of Michigan households are burdened by high water bills, report finds.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Analysts must consider the author’s qualifications, the intended audience and the context in which language about nuclear weapons-related terminology is communicated. US policy-makers wonder why China is enlarging its nuclear arsenal. There’s little doubt China is constructing hundreds of new missile silos.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

Photo is the author’s own. I was flat on my back on blankets, under the stars in the middle of the night at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. At 7,214 feet and more than a half mile above Yosemite Valley, this was a perfect place to watch the August Perseid meteor shower sizzle overhead. Then, shortly after 3 a.m.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On September 30 and October 1 & 2, people from across Pennsylvania will be converging in Harrisburg to change the conversation on climate change at the PA Climate Convergence. Among the scheduled events are-- -- September 30: Wildfireside Chat with Bill McKibben: Bill McKibben, author and one of the founders of 350.org

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

If I don't have the resources to do some of that internally, then I think it's time to have a conversation about what's the best way to do that. I'm open to that conversation going forward, but I want a chance to fix this first.” I want a chance to fix this first [before considering options like third-party permit reviews].

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Physics World

APRIL 4, 2022

Senior author Eijiro Miyako explains that combining a non-pathogenic bacterium with a functional nanoparticle can help control immune response in host cells, while also maintaining its genetic stability. Now, researchers are employing living bacteria to fight back against the cancer. Photothermal cancer therapy.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Grady said Berner’s solar journey began with a conversation with Sharon Pillar, the executive director, and Leo Kowalski, the program director, of the nonprofit Pennsylvania Solar Center. The authority’s board on January 8 awarded the bid for the $1.2 It is not the end. It is a step towards sustainability,” Grady said. “It

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Author: Leticia Nani Silva Dr Lucia Baldino is a researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Salerno , Italy. We conclude our conversation by highlighting the changes that need to happen within the field of engineering, and how working together as a community will drive us further into a sustainable future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This research, which immediately sparked conversations and renewed calls for corporate accountability, is particularly fascinating because it combines climate modeling, interdisciplinary archival research, and corporate accountability —some of my favorite topics! Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Hailing from Berks County, Spangler said she found herself in conversations with an extended family member who also happened to be a fourth-generation dairy farmer, discussing the fact that solar developers had been approaching local farmers.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The same month Chinese authorities closed Toyota and Foxconn factories in Sichuan province, a leading manufacturing center, after a record-breaking heat wave curtailed hydropower output and strained the electric grid. The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I recently sat down virtually with one of the report’s lead authors, Steve Clemmer , director of energy research for the UCS Climate and Energy program, to ask him some questions about his team’s findings. Below is an abridged version of our conversation. Their report, however, comes with a warning.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2023

The PA Organization for Watersheds and Rivers , Stroud Water Research Center , Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Program will host a May 17 webinar on Putting Water Quality Data To Work Locally - A Conversation Cafe from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information. Follow them on Facebook.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It is a conversation that she began having with her partner Jeremy Wortzel, a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania who is pursuing child psychiatry and is interested in how the environment impacts mental health. You can work with your child to join these conversations and learn together.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. NSAC will reserve final assessment until the full legislative text becomes available.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The report’s authors say that although 2020 broke the record as the deadliest year for environmental activists, the numbers are likely even higher, since many attacks are not reported. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

If I don't have the resources to do some of that internally, then I think it's time to have a conversation about what's the best way to do that. I'm open to that conversation going forward, but I want a chance to fix this first.” I want a chance to fix this first [before considering options like third-party permit reviews].

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the weeks since late October, when the province tabled its various proposals, conservation authorities and regional and municipal governments have published reports and statements containing their preliminary evaluation of the effects they are expecting within their jurisdictions. This is a guest blog by Brendon Samuels.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Lead author Dr Katerina Johnson , a research associate at the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Oxford, said: “Here we show that more sociable monkeys have a higher abundance of beneficial gut bacteria, and a lower abundance of potentially disease-causing bacteria.”. Monkey island.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2022

A Conversation with Author Erica Gies – The problems and opportunities that spring from a mismatch between the natural world and the built environment are the topic of Water Always Wins, a new book from journalist Erica Gies. Like her neighbors, her well went dry during the state’s historic drought. Photo & copy; J.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

On May 10, Republicans on the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee reported out legislation to narrow the grounds of appealing DEP actions, authorizing special “stream cleaning” permits and renaming DEP to the Department of Environmental Services. Read more here. Before the vote, Sen.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Co-author Brittany Blakey. TMH was open to the deal, and the following email correspondence ensued: President of TMH emails to selling overriding royalty owners’ attorney Butler: “Pursuant to my conversation with [override owners’ spokesperson], I will sell my retained ORR in the Gulftex proposed 300+ acre unit for $20,000.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Derrick reported, “The program is designed to facilitate interactions and spark new conversations between local leaders and conference attendees concerning future opportunities and lessons learned from the region’s 164-year and counting experience with-- and environmental recovery from-- the early oil and gas industry.”

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