Yale E360
MAY 11, 2021
As climate change intensifies and human activity impacts every corner of the planet, repairing our world increasingly means realizing that our fate is intertwined with that of other animal and plant species — not separate from theirs — and that we must think and act accordingly. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 11, 2021
Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced its intent to ban the sale of menthol flavored cigarettes. If finalized, public health experts and anti-tobacco advocates believe this would be a big step forward in tobacco regulation and could help address health disparities experienced by communities of color. The harms caused by flavored cigarettes, including menthol, […].
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Cool Green Science
MAY 11, 2021
Death fainting! Walking embryos! And other weird facts about the underrated Virginia opossum. The post Strange and Surprising Facts about Opossums appeared first on Cool Green Science.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 11, 2021
Ensuring that everyone’s vote counts the same is also a crucial aspect of electoral integrity, as measured through bias in results, including malapportionment, and racial and partisan gerrymandering. Ohio is one of many states where legislatures are now moving to enact new restrictions, facing pressure from extremists motivated by false allegations that the 2020 election was “stolen.
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.
Energy & the Law
MAY 11, 2021
Co-author Rusty Tucker. This is another chapter in the dispute between Eagle Oil & Gas Co. and. TRO-X, L.P. The litigation arises out of an agreement to acquire and sell oil and gas leases. Here, TRO-X alleges that Eagle failed to remit a share of revenues from production that commenced after the first suit between the parties ended. Background.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 11, 2021
Scientists have many reasons to organize, mobilize, and advocate — whether it’s to stand up for democracy and voting rights, to push for evidence-informed solutions to threats like climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic, or to demand structural changes that make the scientific enterprise itself more inclusive and anti-racist.
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Enviromental Defense
MAY 11, 2021
This guest post is by Paula Williams, the co-founder of Communities and Coal. Environmental Defence is currently running a campaign calling for the federal government to ban coal exports. Take action here. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” This famous quote by Margaret Mead is possibly the most overused quote for inspiring the ordinary to do extraordinary things, but it wasn’t until my own remarka
Physics World
MAY 11, 2021
Every part of our body needs oxygen to survive, produce energy and function. This is especially important after a potentially life-saving transplant, where the new organ needs to quickly establish a blood supply and get enough oxygen to start working well in its new host body. If not, the transplant may fail. An innovative and minute new sensor developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley can detect how much oxygen an organ is getting from inside the body and give doctors an
A Greener Life
MAY 11, 2021
Photo credit: Hall & Woodhouse. By Anders Lorenzen. A brewery in Dorset, UK saw an opportunity during lockdown to limit waste and increase green energy production. As pubs across the UK were forced to close in the lockdown, Hall & Woodhouse, an independent regional brewer, took an innovative approach in order to avoid wasting the thousands of litres of beer which has already been brewed.
Physics World
MAY 11, 2021
What skills do you use every day in your job? At the lowest level, maths and computer programming skills underpin all the research that I work on. I’ve never felt that time spent learning these fundamentals has been wasted – even when the thing you’re learning seems unrelated to anything you’re directly working on. Somehow, it always comes in handy in the future.
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.
E2 Law Blog
MAY 11, 2021
On April 26, 2021, the Decree amending several provisions of Mexico’s General Law of Sustainable Forestry Development was published in the Federal Official Gazette. The Decree is effective as of April 27. This GT Alert reviews the Decree’s amendments. Read the full GT Alert (English and Spanish).
CEQA Developments
MAY 11, 2021
In a lengthy opinion filed April 8, and ordered published on May 7, 2021, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment rejecting a number of CEQA challenges to the California State Land Commission’s (Lands Commission) supplemental EIR for and related approval of a lease modification to facilitate a desalination plant in Huntington Beach. California Coastkeeper Alliance v.
E2 Law Blog
MAY 11, 2021
Roughly 15 years ago, many Pennsylvania landowners entered into oil and gas leases in the expectation of receiving royalties for the extraction of shale gas and oil underlying their properties. Today, as natural gas prices remain low, and fossil fuels generally—including methane leaks specifically—encounter policy and regulatory resistance because of attention to climate change, lessees may not move as rapidly to develop marginal leaseholds.
New Scientist
MAY 11, 2021
Mathematician famous for her work with mechanical engineer Charles Babbage and writing the first computer program
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.
BCM Environmental Land Law
MAY 11, 2021
The New Hampshire Agrarian Commons , a subsidiary of the national Agrarian Trust , promotes land access and tenure for next generation farmers. Monadnock Community Land Trust (MCLT) has donated 63 acres of land to the NH Agrarian Commons. For the past 12 years this land was leased by Normanton Farms. The farm will now enter into a relationship with NH Agrarian Commons and sign a 99-year lease, guaranteeing that the farm can continue to provide pastured chicken, pastured pork, and grass-fed beef
Physics World
MAY 11, 2021
The last few years have seen rising interest in combining quantum computing and machine learning, with the hopes of discovering new capabilities and applications in both. Researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark and the University of Toronto, Canada, have now done just that by using quantum bits (qubits) to build a so-called “artificial spiking neuron” – a building block of a neural network that tries to mimic the way information flows in the brain.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 11, 2021
Yesterday, the Biden-Harris administration announced the formation of a task force whose goal is to review and strengthen scientific integrity across the federal government. The task force was mandated by a presidential memorandum signed by President Biden on January 27 of this year. The announcement sets a 120-day clock for the task force to conduct […].
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