Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Responsible for nuclear physics which has given us nuclear power, and nuclear medicine which has opened up new avenues of medical treatment for such things as cancer. It's fundamental to the Earth sciences such as meteorology and is vital in our understanding of this generation's most pressing problem - climate change.

Technology

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Whereas the existing criteria require that the transitional activity does not hamper the development and deployment of low-carbon alternatives (such as wind, solar or nuclear) the current proposal has no such restriction in function. For example, the title of section 4.27 reads (our emphasis): “4.27. COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/.of

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

In the US, almost every aspect of the environment is regulated - drinking water, surface water, air, hazardous waste, new construction, nuclear power plants, factories, and much more. There are 90 MCLs, including for specific chemicals, microbes, and properties such as radiation. 4 - Environmental Regulation.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

The failures at Homestake are emblematic of the toxic legacy of the American uranium industry, one that has been well-documented from its boom during the Cold War until falling uranium prices and concerns over the dangers of nuclear power decimated the industry in the 1980s. Groundwater moves. All the houses are going to be gone.

Waste

Energy & the Law

AUGUST 5, 2021

She offers these and other suggestions for our nuclear regulatory environment: The Nuclear Waste Policy Act distorts the market by making taxpayers responsible for disposal of nuclear waste. Re-evaluate outmoded regulations that overstate the risk from radiation exposure. In the U.S. Natural gas lead at 40%.

Nuclear Power

Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

So, the main one I suppose that caught my attention was “Climate Change is Not Making Natural Disasters” and everywhere I look, trying to approach it from your perspective, I just find it a confounding thing for you to assert. I'm not to some extent related to anthropogenic climate change. So let's go to that.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MAY 26, 2025

Don’t expect the Trump Administration to agonize over the risk of nuclear weapon proliferation. Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission This order rejects the model of radiation risk that the NRC currently uses in favor of models that downplay risks of small radiation leaks. (I Download as PDF

Nuclear Power