Environment + Energy Leader
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Digital systems can help track and reduce waste, increase recycling, and lower operational costs. The post Technology Key to Making Waste Management Sustainable appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 5, 2022
If you live in an area with public transit, and have found yourself wondering where things went wrong, you’re not alone. Maybe you ride every day but have had to navigate line closures and service changes like in Boston or Washington DC. Perhaps you rarely ride or have had a handful of bad experiences with delays or ghost buses that never come. Or perhaps you can’t understand why it is so difficult to get to the airport on a train or bus (we see you, Los Angeles).
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Environment + Energy Leader
DECEMBER 5, 2022
While Vestas conspicuously helps other enterprises achieve their energy goals by making and selling wind turbines, it is quietly trying to decarbonize its internal operations. The goal is carbon neutrality for its internal operations and the electricity it produces by 2030. The post Vestas Commits to Carbon Neutrality and the Circular Economy appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 5, 2022
At the international negotiating session in Egypt, demands for climate reparations — “Loss and Damage” in UN lingo — were front and center. The debate was focused on the obligations of developed countries. But there was another issue percolating in the background: Does China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, have an obligation to compensate poorer countries for the harm it is causing?
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.
Environment + Energy Leader
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Lowe's today announced its goal to reach net-zero emissions across the company's scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The post How Lowe’s Plans to Reach Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Today’s high energy prices are the result of recent events and long-term strategies. Reliance on fossil natural gas and the slow adoption of renewable energy contributed to electricity bills in New England in the first nine months of 2022 that are $5 billion higher than the prior year. Prices elsewhere in the country doubled. Renewable energy policies are how we manage risks.
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Yale E360
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to ban all new oil and gas drilling within the city and to phase out existing wells over the next 20 years. Read more on E360 ?.
Environment + Energy Leader
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Lowe's today announced its goal to reach net-zero emissions across the company's scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The post How Lowe’s Plans to Reach Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 5, 2022
We’re closely monitoring offshore wind activities in the Gulf of Maine. Interested in learning about state-led offshore wind efforts in Maine? Check out this recent blog post on the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is responsible for the development of offshore renewable energy in federal waters.
Environment + Energy Leader
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The WBA released its first Nature Benchmark studying how industries are doing with nature and biodiversity impacts. The post Companies Overlooking Nature Impacts in Race to Net Zero appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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.
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 5, 2022
This week, the Massachusetts Commission on Clean Heat released its final report. The report seeks to establish a framework for a long-term reduction in emissions from heating fuels, to align with the Commonwealth’s emissions reduction target of net zero by 2050 and the 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap. According to the 2050 Roadmap, on-site combustion of fossil fuels in the residential and commercial building sectors presently accounts for about 27% of statewide greenhouse gas emissions, and the us
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 5, 2022
In 2018, Mark Heller looked out over his property in Lancaster County and saw a muddy, heavily used meadow right up to the edge of a stream with eroding banks. He thought “this doesn’t look healthy.” But he didn’t see a way to correct the problems with his career taking him away from home for several weeks at a time. Mark describes the situation as “kismet” when a representative from Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center visited him in 2020 and asked if he was interested in making improv
Inside Climate News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Whole Foods plans to pull Maine lobster from its shelves amid a debate about its sustainability. By Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Frontiers
DECEMBER 5, 2022
By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer. Image/Shutterstock.com. Inorganic nanoparticles used to help process food may be crossing the placental barrier and getting into breastmilk, potentially damaging intestinal regulation and compromising babies’ oral tolerance, predisposing them to food allergies. Nanotechnologies have revolutionized food technology with changes to food production, manufacture, and processing that are intended to make our food safer and healthier.
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.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 5, 2022
It took a lot of meat to feed even one species of large carnivorous dinosaur, so how did several survive side-by-side in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods without starving?
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 5, 2022
This blog is co-authored by Aliénor Rougeot, Program Manager, Climate and Energy and Michelle Woodhouse, Program Manager, Water. The federal government must commit to action on tar sands tailings and Line 5 at the biodiversity COP15. Bees are disappearing. Caribou are endangered. Wetlands are being filled in. Forests are being cleared. This is happening in our own backyards and well beyond.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Marine seabirds known as razorbills are usually found in cold, northern waters, but hundreds of them have been turning up underfed in Italy, and no one knows why
Earth 911
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Google’s circular economy leader, Mike Werner, explains the many renewable energy, waste reduction, and internal. The post Earth911 Podcast: Google’s Mike Werner on Building Circular Economies appeared first on Earth911.
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New Scientist
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Goal to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by 2030 – a headline aim of the COP15 biodiversity summit – could take 80 rather than eight years to achieve, say conservationists
Scientific American
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban new oil and gas wells in the city and eventually close existing ones.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Mars has been viewed as a mostly geologically static world, but the planet may have an enormous underground plume of hot rocks slowly rising towards the surface
CEQA Developments
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 6) has issued a November 22, 2022 Order modifying its opinion and denying rehearing in G.I. Industries v. City of Thousand Oaks (2022) Cal.App.5th , without changing the judgment. That case expanded existing law under the Brown Act and CEQA by holding, on an issue of first impression, that a public agency must agendize a staff determination that a project is CEQA-exempt as an item of business for the meeting on project approval.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Voting began on November 30 for the 2023 Pennsylvania “River of the Year,” and the Endless Mountain Heritage Region and the Susquehanna Greenways Partnership are asking the public to cast votes for the Susquehanna River North Branch. Voting ends on January 14. [The Conestoga River, Perkiomen Creek, Schuylkill River, and Susquehanna River-North Branch are finalists for the 2023 River of the Year.
National Law Center
DECEMBER 5, 2022
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. . The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: December 5, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Inhabitant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
With the right pieces in place, the activist can then step into the role of reformer where they work alongside policymakers to change laws and institutional policies.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The PA Forestry Association Forest Heritage Committee , in cooperation with the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art , is proud to bring you the sixth video in the Discovering PA’s Forest Heritage series-- PA Forest Fire Towers. The video highlights the Commonwealth’s forest fire prevention and fighting history, which relies on an extensive network of forest fire towers and dedicated DCNR employees and volunteer organizations and individuals that are critical to protecting Penn’s Woods.
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 5, 2022
by Tyler Winkler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution If you look back at the history of Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1800s, it might seem hurricane frequency is on the rise. The year 2020 had the most tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, with 31, and 2021 had the third-highest, after 2005. The past decade saw five … Continue reading We’re decoding ancient hurricanes’ traces on the sea floor – and evidence from millennia of Atlantic storms is not good news for the coast.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The PA Association of Environmental Professionals recognized former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell with the Karl Mason Award and Lorie Erb and the MACHAC Bog Turtle Recovery Program with the Walter Lyon Award. Patrick McDonnell Patrick McDonnell’s career with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spanned several decades, beginning in 1998.
E2 Law Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2022
On Nov. 16, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its updated 2 022 Scoping Plan to outline policies and actions California proposes to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 or earlier. Under the Plan, CARB proposes to shift every sector of the state’s economy away from petroleum and to implement a rapid transition to renewable energy resources and zero-emission vehicles.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 5, 2022
On December 5, the Public Utility Commission released 2022 Winter Reliability Overview Reports from the state’s major natural gas distribution companies (NGDCs), along with a related Readiness Report from the Energy Association of Pennsylvania (EAP). According to projections provided by EAP, home heating costs are expected to rise significantly over the winter, driven by an estimated 5% increase in consumption (for households that use natural gas as their primary heating fuel), along with a 28%
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Montreal | Traditional, unceded territory of the kanien’kehá:ka First Nation – Between December 7 and December 19, 2022, Environmental Defence experts will join leaders, experts and advocates from around the world at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal. As the host country, Canada has a responsibility to demonstrate global leadership in tackling the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, both globally and at home.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 5, 2022
On December 5, the Independent Fiscal Office reported third quarter natural gas production in Pennsylvania declined by 0.8% over 2021, the third consecutive quarter in which production did not increase year-over-year. It also represents the strongest year-over-year decline in quarterly production since monthly production data have been published (2015).
HumanNature
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Guest Post by Marybeth Arcodia , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University If we could predict a flooding, drought, or heatwave event one month in advance, how many lives could be spared with more time to prepare? Scientists are making strides in making weather and climate predictions weeks to months in advance, thanks to an emerging understanding of how our climate system is interconnected.
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