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Atlanta’s New Ordinance Raises the Bar on Cool Roofs

Law Columbia

Photo by Steve Matthews on Unsplash Earlier this month, on June 2, 2025, Atlanta’s City Council unanimously passed a state-of-the-art ordinance to require cool roofs throughout the whole city, immediately propelling Atlanta to the forefront of local climate adaptation measures. Local control of building codes varies significantly.

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The Politics of Geoengineering Are Getting Stranger

Legal Planet

heating targets; Its biggest problems are political, social, and legal (not scientific or technological): how to navigate and control it; and how not to let it trigger international conflict or destabilization. Its on individuals, so not well-targeted to predict political outcomes with interest-group mobilization.

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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen

PA Environment Daily

The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate. Gerusky , the late Director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection at the then-Department of Environmental Resources on March 28, 1979, and who was in charge of the state’s technical response to the accident; and - - James M.

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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

A very polite man – whose name I never did knew -- explained that he needed to inform us that there was an incident at the plant at about 4:00 a.m, Mankind has had lots of fears through history, but as Dick put it later, radiation is one of "the worst fears of modern man." What's GPU?" "The The utility, you know, the electric people."

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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 At 3:53 a.m. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

A very polite man whose name I never did knew -- explained that he needed to inform us that there was an incident at the plant at about 4:00 a.m, Mankind has had lots of fears through history, but as Dick put it later, radiation is one of "the worst fears of modern man." What's GPU?" "The The utility, you know, the electric people."

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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen

PA Environment Daily

The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate. Gerusky , the late Director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection at the then-Department of Environmental Resources on March 28, 1979, and who was in charge of the state’s technical response to the accident; and - - James M.

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The enduring mystery of the solar corona

Physics World

It was a bold claim and some researchers initially struggled to accept the implications because it meant that energy must be flowing from the “cool” 6000 K surface of the Sun into the hotter corona – seemingly in violation of thermodynamics.