Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

Here are some tips Can solar and geothermal energy help a church and its neighbors wean off fossil fuels? 514) Local government (440) Public lands (60) National parks & forests (51) State government (191) U.S. 514) Local government (440) Public lands (60) National parks & forests (51) State government (191) U.S.

Recycling

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In another podcast, “Planet Panic,” Bigtree defends the continued burning of coal, questions the reliability of renewable energy, and points to shadowy ulterior motives behind federal climate policies. is on when it comes to the war on scientists. I don’t know, the whole thing is so bogus.”

Climate Scientist

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.

Climate Scientist

Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the 103-page decision , the court relies heavily on the facts laid out by these climate scientists who testified under oath and faced cross-examination. ” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions through policies that drive renewable energy and clean transportation has well known benefits.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

It would counter the expertise of climate scientists, and would damage the label’s credibility internationally,” said Julie Segal, Senior Manager of Climate Finance at Environmental Defence Canada. “To

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe , according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Everyone can understand that renewable energy sources-- sunlight, wind, the heat of the earth, and water in various forms of motion-- have an initial advantage over sources that must be continually extracted, processed, transported, and burned. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E. Mann, one of the world's best-known climate scientists and author, with the Climate Champion Award for his life's research on climate studies and the impacts of human-caused climate change. from Villanova University School of Law.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C The report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of climate change looked at a variety of pathways for increased climate actions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

Natural Gas

Real Climate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And the users don’t know exactly how to choose between the whole available dataset or a selection of a small number of climate model results. Climate scientists are still thinking about how to extract useful information, which can be interpreted as useful messages that decision-makers can act upon.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Through greenwashing ads, disinformation campaigns, attacks on scientists, and production of fake scientific evidence, the industry has engaged the playbook of deception to undermine climate action.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

. -- Katie Rever, IGS Energy. -- Joel Harrington, Enel North America. -- Brent Alderfer, Community Energy. -- Leslie Elder, Coalition for Community Solar Access. -- Tim Mills, Program Manager, Renewable Energy Division, ARM Group (Renewable Works for PA). Click Here to watch a video of the hearing.

Electricity

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My In any case, renewable energy companies may look favourably at the new government and its commitment to decarbonisation. “We

Government

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

continue to rely on an outdated fossil fuel energy source, and prolong the opportunity to become world leaders in renewable energy sources. Amplify voices of local activists and climate scientists. Frame climate the human health issue that it is, and speak of the climate crisis in present tense.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

.; Olympus Energy Expects To Begin Construction In June 2025 -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue For 2023 Estimated To Be Among Lowest On Record -- PennLive Guest Essay: We Can’t Let Pennsylvania Become The Next Petrochemical Cancer Alley - By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council -- Delaware RiverKeeper Network (..)

Endangered Species Act

A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

Climate Change

Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. Change 65 102184 ), climate scientists jet off two to three times a year on average, whereas other researchers get on planes just twice during that time. But other scientists also fly a lot.

2019

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. The emissions from the burning of coal such as steel and power plants are the single biggest contributor to climate change. Gove also insisted that the operation of the mine will be net-zero.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. Schuylkill County -- PA Solar Center Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

Schuylkill County -- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

As PPL expands its operations to Rhode Island with the recent acquisition of The Narragansett Electric Company, now Rhode Island Energy, the corporation is focused on replicating this success.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

6 RiverWatch Video Report -- AP: Witnesses To FBI Hunt For Civil War Gold On DCNR State Forest Land Describe Heavily Loaded Armored Truck, Signs Of Night Dig -- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In September Now Available [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: PJM, 80 Parties Agree To Trim Winter Storm Elliott Penalties By 31.7%

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In June, more than 750 scientists sent an open letter organized by UCS to Citi, calling on the bank to stop financing fossil fuel expansion, respect human rights, and redirect finance to renewable energy.

Fossil Fuels

Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

More recently, I was the interim director and policy director with the Global Battery Alliance within the World Economic Forum, which works on driving human rights and sustainability in the battery value chain, in the scale up of electrification and renewable energy.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

In a telling moment during a 2021 congressional hearing, top oil and gas company executives refused to tell API’s president to stop opposing climate and environmental policies the corporations claim to support. P is for Paltering Researchers describe paltering as the use of technically true statements to create an overall false impression.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Tillerson, meanwhile, dismissed the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (and striving to limit it to 1.5 Climate scientists, that’s who. degrees C) as “something magical.” is not good enough?”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2024

“It’s imperative that local, state, and federal policymakers and emergency planners help keep communities safe by prioritizing investments to get homes, businesses, and infrastructure in frontline communities climate-ready and be prepared to ensure a quick and just recovery should disaster strike.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. It’s a big deal.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case. motion to intervene Oct. The Superior Court’s judgment was based on a June 2016 “Under Advisement Ruling” in which the court concluded that the potential chilling effect of disclosure did not overcome the presumption favoring disclosure.

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2024

A group of climate and energy experts and enthusiasts enters a theater to watch Twisters , hoping for a renewable energy twist. In the words of Kristy Dahl, UCS climate scientist : “The reality is that there have always been tornadoes. There have always been hurricanes. There have always been wildfires.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Senate passed compromised legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. On August 7, the U.S.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

believe that “most” scientists agree on global warming and only 20 percent know that more than 90 percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening. should take steps toward being carbon neutral by 2050 and should prioritize renewable energy over expanding fossil fuel exploration.

2023

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

And the rigorous teaching of climate science does not inculcate anyone with anything except a greater understanding of the physical world and how humans are altering it. I’d bet a climate scientist would have been glad to make the short trip to talk to Senator Cirino. Source: Google maps.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Heat waves aren’t just uncomfortable, they’re also deadly to humans, and to animals.” – Nerilie Abram, a climate scientists at Australian National University. According to Reuters , that a draft of the legislation, prepared by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, was under ministerial consultation.

2021

Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

Crucially, Uganda’s glaciers are disappearing faster than scientists can glean information from them about the country and continent’s climate past and future.

2023