Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 17, 2023
The unrelenting heat has caused a dizzying number of air and ocean temperature records to be broken in recent weeks. As the climate continues to change due to human activities, oceans have absorbed over 90% of the excess heat. Ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida have reached as high as 97°F in recent days.
Legal Planet
JULY 18, 2023
There are many forms of carbon capture, including nature-based (in trees, soil, wetlands, ocean, regenerative agriculture, etc.), The issue is about what the transition to clean fuels and manufacturing looks like and how long it will take. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 ).
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Global Green
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Biomass (or bioenergy) is one of the latest energy sources jumping on the renewable-fuelled bandwagon, yet the most controversial one. In the UK, the energy produced from biomass currently accounts for ca. the 25% of the total renewable energy share. Ocean energy. So, is burning trees renewable? Hydropower.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet. Consider an energy policy degree.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.
Legal Planet
APRIL 22, 2024
Forty-five states (including many red states) have filed Priority Climate Action Plans with the EPA for how they will attack pollution and boost clean energy in transportation and other sectors to take advantage of that IRA money. I’m heartened by state action plans.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Although the district court acknowledged that BLM provided “a lengthier explanation” of its reasons for not quantifying foreign emissions than the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provided in the earlier case, the court found that BLM still did not “thoroughly explain” why an estimate of foreign emissions was impossible.
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