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Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ Water Recycling

Yale E360

San Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to recycle wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighborhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity.

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Harsco Rebrands to Enviri, Reflecting Environmental Focus

Environment + Energy Leader

With a shift toward sustainability over the past few years, company is focused on developing and refining recycling methods.

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Wealthy Nations Overstating Climate Aid, Report Finds

Yale E360

Wealthy nations are reportedly on track to mobilize $100 billion in climate finance for developing countries this year, but official figures obscure how much donor money is actually going toward climate projects, a report finds.

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EU Climate Policy Reforms Set Conditions for Large Global Manufacturers to Decarbonize

Environment + Energy Leader

The European Union has cut an ambitious path for climate legislation in 2023. In March, the bloc released the Net-Zero Industry Act, with the goal of increasing green manufacturing capacity and providing greater diversity in the supply chains of key technologies. Now, the EU has approved a rehaul of its.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions

New Scientist

Researchers estimate that plants transfer more than 13 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide each year to mycorrhizal fungi, which grow around their roots

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GM, POSCO Future M to Expand North America’s EV Battery Supply

Environment + Energy Leader

GM plans to install 1 million units of annual EV capacity in North America in 2025, which will be supported by four battery cell joint venture plants in the U.S.

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Registration Open for 2023 Environment + Energy Leader Solutions Summit

Environment + Energy Leader

Registration is open for the 2023 Environment + Energy Leader Solutions Summit, held July 18-9 with industry insights into sustainability.

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Registration Open! PA Greenways & Trails Summit Sept. 17-19 In Scranton

PA Environment Daily

WeConservePA is now accepting registrations for the 2023 Pennsylvania Greenways & Trails Summit on September 17-19 in Scranton. With a theme of “Connecting an Industrious Past to an Innovative Future,” this Summit makes space for a range of topics both familiar and forward-leaning in the trail world. Active transportation, healthy community movements, motorized trails, connecting communities, the economic impacts of outdoor recreation, and many more topics will be explored through 44 worksho

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Research Investigates Forest Conservation, Climate Change Mitigation Efforts

Environment + Energy Leader

Research findings affirm the importance of conserving high biomass forests by quantifying protected areas' carbon intake efficiency.

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How Dreams Reveal Brain Disorders

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Grupo Bimbo’s Issues Largest Sustainability-linked Bond in Mexican Market

Environment + Energy Leader

Grupo Bimbo made headlines with its successful issuance of Sustainability-linked Bonds (SLBs) in the Mexican market.

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This Small-Brained Human Species May Have Buried Its Dead, Controlled Fire and Made Art

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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ESB, Ørsted Plan Significant Irish Offshore Wind Project

Environment + Energy Leader

ESB and Ørsted have signed an agreement to jointly develop an Irish offshore wind portfolio in a landmark deal.

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The First Two Botanists Who Surveyed, and Survived, the Colorado River

Scientific American

In an interview with Scientific American, author Melissa Sevigny discusses her book Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

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Shaping a Resilient Future: Climate Impact on Vulnerable Populations

Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital

As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.

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Chemours, DuPont, Corteva, and 3M Linked to Massive PFAS Settlements

Environment + Energy Leader

Chemours, DuPont de Nemours, Corteva, and 3M will pay billions of dollars toward PFAS pollution settlements.

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Seeing inside a dying brain: Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

Frontiers

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed. What happens to the brain when we die? The mystery of what happens in the brain when we die has fascinated humans for centuries.

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California Pesticide Bills on the Move—Again

NRDC

The California Assembly passed two bills that would help address widespread contamination of the state’s environment with pesticides like neurotoxic neonics.

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Frontiers Forum Live 2023: Accelerating and mobilizing open science for global challenges

Frontiers

This year’s Frontiers Forum Live brought top researchers, innovators, and influencers together in-person and virtually, united in a common mission to accelerate the global transition to open science and mobilize solutions for critical challenges – with the most urgent being to reach net-zero carbon to prevent climate disaster. The Frontiers Forum is where researchers, policymakers, and other experts from around the world discuss science-led solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet.

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Sustainability at Retail

Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.

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Help Wanted: North Branch Land Trust - Land Protection & Stewardship Coordinator

PA Environment Daily

The Luzerne County-based North Branch Land Trust is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Land Protection and Stewardship Coordinator. The Coordinator is responsible for implementation of the Trust’s land conservation program and stewardship of all conservation easements and fee lands (preserves). Stewardship Coordinator will proactively engage landowners to identify opportunities to permanently protect properties in the service area or areas designated in the Trust’s strategic plan.

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Why Nuclear Fusion Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Pennsylvania Firefly Festival: Lights Out For Lightning Bugs! June 24-30

PA Environment Daily

If you’re looking for a way to see more fireflies this year and in years to come, join the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival by turning your Lights Out For Lightning Bugs this summer. During the week of June 24 through June 30, you can do your part in your own yard by turning off your outside lights. Better yet, turn them off all summer. You will be helping more than just fireflies and/or lightning bugs.

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Homo naledi may have made etchings on cave walls and buried its dead

New Scientist

New discoveries suggest that Homo naledi, an ancient and primitive hominin, may have displayed complex behaviour despite its small brain

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Stroud Water Research Center: Learn How To Protect Your Watershed By Attending 3 Upcoming Community Science Webinars Starting June 7

PA Environment Daily

Join the Stroud Water Research Center for a special series of three action-oriented online seminars on how you can make a difference and improve the health of your local streams. Presented in partnership with Xylem Watermark , these free one-hour sessions provide you with information on three of Stroud Water Research Center’s popular community science programs-- -- June 7: Model My Watershed , Click Here to register -- June 21: Leaf Pack Network , Click Here to register -- July 12: Monitor My Wa

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Ultrasound Puts Animals into a Curious Hibernation-Like State

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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House Passes Bipartisan Legislation To Strengthen Rail Safety After Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

PA Environment Daily

On June 5, the House voted 141 to 62 to pass House Bill 1028 , bipartisan legislation sponsored by Rep. Rob Matzie (D-Beaver) and Rep. Jim Marshall (R-Beaver), to improve rail safety, strengthen state standards for freight trains and add reporting requirements for the transportation of hazardous materials. “There may be equals, but there has been no bigger supporter of freight rail in the legislature during my tenure than me,” said Rep.

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To Reignite the U.S. Chip Industry, Invite More Chefs into the Kitchen

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Penn State, PA Forest Products Assn. Host 2023 Forest Products Equipment & Technology Exposition June 9-10 In Centre County

PA Environment Daily

Visitors from Pennsylvania and surrounding states interested in the forest-products industry and the sustainable management of forest resources will gather at the 2023 Forest Products Equipment and Technology Exposition , June 9-10 at Penn State's Ag Progress Days site at Rock Springs in Centre County. Known as Timber 2023 , the biennial trade exposition is aimed primarily at loggers, foresters, sawmill operators, value-added processors and forest landowners.

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Air pollution monitors have been accidentally harvesting wildlife DNA

New Scientist

DNA from plants’ and animals’ shed cells gets caught in air filters at pollution monitoring stations, providing a valuable source of data for tracking biodiversity

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June 5 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

The June 5 PA Environment Digest is now available. Click Here To View Or Print The Entire June 5 PA Environment Digest 106 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets June 13 To Hear Acting DEP Secretary Negrin Outline His Vision For Changing DEP; Enforcement, Customer Service Strategies; Permit Review Changes; Environmental Justice Plans; More DEP Moves To En

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The reasons why insect numbers are decreasing

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz. Researchers are investigating the causes and consequences of the worldwide insect decline as well as considering potential countermeasures.

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Penn State's 2023 Ag Progress Days On Tap For August 8-10 In Centre County

PA Environment Daily

Planning is well underway for Penn State's 2023 Ag Progress Days exposition, which will be held Aug. 8-10 in Centre County. Sponsored by the College of Agricultural Sciences, the expo is held at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, located 9 miles southwest of State College on state Route 45. Admission and parking are free.

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The unique promise of 'biological computers' made from living things

New Scientist

Biologists are finally beginning to corral molecules, cells and whole organisms to carry out complex computations.

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New Tool Tracks Military Deployments to Climate Disasters

Scientific American

A new tool that tracks military deployments to climate disasters could shed light on how the traditional war-fighting mission is evolving under a warming climate