Acoel

APRIL 18, 2024

There is no way that “cause or contribute to violations of applicable water quality standards” is any less “hopelessly indeterminate” than EPA’s definition of “Waters of the United States” before the Supreme Court’s Sackett opinion. Maui on similar grounds.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 10, 2023

That is the question presented in the recent case of American Chemistry Council v. The American Chemistry Council case deals with the interplay of CEQA with another statutory scheme, the so-called “Green Chemistry” law (Health & Safety Code, § 25251 et seq.) of Toxic Substances Control (5th Dist. 2022) Cal.App.5th

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Frontiers

MARCH 18, 2022

Frontiers for Young Minds takes you down on a dive into the depths of the historical scientific archives and introduces you to scientists you may have not heard about, but you definitely should! The son of a rather unsuccessful brewer and corn-chandler, young Carl developed a keen interest in chemistry and went on to become a good pharmacist.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you study Biology, it’s mostly very old-fashioned: you study Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. Plus, I thought that ecological sciences required a strong quantitative understanding, and, if you did Chemistry, Botany, and Zoology, you had to drop Maths and Physics, so I chose to do a Bachelors in Physics, Chemistry and Maths.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

But methane’s role in atmospheric chemistry and as a source of stratospheric water vapour means that it has a bigger effect on climate than just the direct effect of its concentration. The post The definitive CO 2 /CH 4 comparison post first appeared on RealClimate. W/m 2 for CH 4.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The number of people who would definitely buy or lease an EV has more than tripled since 2020 A striking result from the survey is that slow adoption rate in rural areas is not for lack of interest in EVs. According to the Consumer Reports 2022 survey, 29 percent of rural drivers would definitely or seriously consider buying or leasing an EV.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

In a widely accepted definition, Zero Waste is, The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health.”.

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

Murray The medieval forerunner of chemistry is said to have been alchemy and was primarily focused on transforming base metals and other matter into gold (or a universal liquid to make one immortal). If you look at a definition of the term, you will also see words like magic, sorcery, enchantment, and witchcraft.

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HumanNature

MARCH 27, 2024

The whole reason I’m doing any of this is because I was sitting in the chemistry building and there wasn’t a place for me to put my coffee cup. The idealism of students is definitely something important for them to hold on to,” He said. I didn’t want to put it in the wrong place,” Warren said.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Carriers want definition and detail on property value, flood risk, replacement cost, comparative real estate, etc. Be Ready for More Hyperfocus on Chemistry. In underwriting coverage your clients should expect far more focus on what chemistry is at your client’s facilities and what they are generating by way of fugitive emissions.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 4, 2022

Their thin, fragile shells are sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry. Through dozens of eye-popping aquatic species and ecosystems, high-definition video and hands-on activities, visitors can explore the ocean’s vast diversity and see how everyone’s actions on land affect the ocean, however far away.

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Water Research & Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Policy The case for a more precise definition of regulated PFAS T. 2021,57, 8121-8130 10.1039/D1CC02641K A graphene-based hydrogel monolith with tailored surface chemistry for PFAS passive sampling Jitka Becanova and Zachary S. Wallington et al., Clark and Jeffrey E. Dick, Chem. Saleeba et al., Environ.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Industry frets that EPA leadership “is being marginalized” The American Chemistry Council emphasized in their comment that they are concerned that the EPA’s scientific integrity policy is somehow “minimizing or marginalizing the role of political leadership.”

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Water Research & Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since then, my research has evolved significantly, both through my PhD at MIT and my tenure-track research here at UIUC, to encompass areas of research in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, and materials chemistry. I would definitely want to be a manager/coach for a soccer team.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

There is no single definition of “long duration”, but according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the most commonly cited number is 10+ hours. Just like short-duration energy storage, long-duration energy storage technologies come in many forms and chemistries. How long is long-duration?

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Inspired by the variational method popular in quantum chemistry, they proposed using a quantum computer to generate good guesses for the ground-state wavefunction of a chemical system ( Nat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Christen Commuso (CC): Chemistry research in general we don’t look enough at chemical mixtures and how chemicals interact with each other or how this waste interacts with the environment and then with the human body. Louis area, Westlake, and North County Missouri?

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Physics World

APRIL 20, 2021

Nuclear isomers were discovered in 1921 by the German chemist Otto Hahn (1879–1968) while working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin. A funny thing about isomers is that there is no agreed definition of the minimum half-life needed for an excited nuclear state to be an “isomer”. The birth of nuclear isomers.

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 17, 2018

There would be no atmospheric sciences, nor would there be architecture, physics , chemistry , biology or anything else. The Christian World : Developments in mathematics focused on looking for evidence of the natural order of things and, by definition, God's fingerprints.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 19, 2021

She would look at nature through the eyes of a scientist, which subsequently led her to her first degree in Chemistry, completed in Sri Lanka, followed by a more specialised degree in Food Science from the University of Reading, UK. Sultanbawa. As a child, Dr. Sultanbawa loved nature and animals. Challenges.

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JUNE 15, 2018

We define geology as the study of the Earth, the materials and processes, structure, and even the physics and chemistry that underlie them. It was also during this time that geology began building academic relationships with chemistry and physics. Examples include paleontology and paleobotany (see below). Geochemistry. years (32).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you remember your high school chemistry, this is called Avogadro’s Principle: in words branded on my brain by rote repetition, “equal volumes of any two gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules.” Since GWP’s are all measured relative to CO 2 , the GWP of CO 2 is always one, by definition.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental analysis has come a long way in the last 100 years - from what we call “wet chemistry” to electronic “instrument analysis.”. What we think about as “chemical contamination” today, was typically measured with a wet chemistry test for “phenols” and for “oil and grease.”

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

While a parasite's existence is not, by definition, beneficial to the host species, they are beneficial in many ecological ways (8). Molecular biology is a cross disciplinary area of chemistry and biology, with a particular focus on biochemistry, genetics, and biology at a micro level. Parasitic Molecular Biology.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

People are using it to do things like developing algorithms for problems in finance, chemistry, logistics, signal and image processing,” Rigetti explains. We are now going through a rapid growth phase, but that will definitely be followed by a consolidation phase with mergers and acquisitions.” (Courtesy: D-Wave Systems Inc).

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Arnold Porter

JULY 2, 2021

Guidance Regarding Development and Submission of Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls Information for Expedited Approval. ” An exception to “high-risk” has been added where “mitigating measures” have been established to prevent, detect, or otherwise mitigate the risk of inaccurate results.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

The proposed rule includes a non-exhaustive list of 1,364 PFAS subject to the rule but also provides that all substances meeting the proposed rule’s structural definition would be subject to reporting. In the notice, EPA also provided a structural definition of PFAS for draft CCL 5 purposes.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

EPA: In a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, the Scientific Advisory Board indicated that it will review the science supporting the proposed revised definition of Waters of the United States Rule. White House OSTP – Request for Information: Sustainable Chemistry. Comments submitted online must be received by 11:59 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

These members introduced Senate Bill 645 (Muth-D-Chester) and House Bill 1355 (Innamorato-D-Allegheny) that would repeal oil and gas industry exemption from complying with the Solid Waste Management Act and include drilling waste in the definition of hazardous waste in an attempt to deal with many of these issues. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We definitely had training on how to look for [intentional duplicate evaluation submissions],” said Morris. He continued, "We now have the data, we now have the science, it's been my group, the Penn State group, any number of groups, have done the chemistry and we know this stuff is toxic." Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

House and Senate Republicans introduced a bill to define which waterbodies are regulated by the Clean Water Act, offering a narrower definition than traditional practice. The Biden administration is currently working on its own definition of waters of the United States. WOTUS in Congress. Michigan Gov.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Defense Bill Contained PFAS, Sustainable Chemistry Provisions. Defense Bill Contained PFAS, Sustainable Chemistry Provisions. In addition, the legislation included a subtitle on "Sustainable Chemistry" that requires the convening of an interagency body to coordinate federal programs and activities in support of sustainable chemistry.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The agency has begun a series of roundtable and stakeholder sessions as it prepares to craft a new, more protective definition of protected waterways. But when the Trump administration took office, it repealed that rule and issued its own, far narrower definition. This position oversees the Department of Energy Office of Science.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2022

Nelson’s College Voucher Bill Leaves Many Questions -- Gun Violence/Law Enforcement -- Gov.

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