Sat.Oct 16, 2021

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

The world is gathering soon in Glasgow to debate how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius.

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Meddling to mend the planet: techno-fixes to environmental problems

Physics World

Environmental writers walk a tightrope. Offer relentless despair and readers may drift away; be too upbeat and you’re almost certainly downplaying the issues. Fail to offer an opinion and you can leave readers cold, but come across as preaching and critics will shout “hypocrisy!” In Under a White Sky: the Nature of the Future , Pulitzer-prize-winning author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert masterfully traverses this tightrope, combining curiosity with an acerbic wit to explore humanity’s obsessi

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Warming Trends: Where Have All the Walruses Gone? Plus, a Maple Mystery, ‘Cool’ Islands and the Climate of Manhattan

Inside Climate News

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. By Katelyn Weisbrod Researchers are recruiting 500,000 citizen scientists to help count walruses, which face massive challenges as the climate changes. The World Wildlife Fund and the British Antarctic Survey have gathered 600,000 satellite images from th.

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Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Critical Of DEP For Working With Penn State On Independent Studies Of Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater They Had Been Aware Of Since August, 2020

PA Environment Daily

On September 10, David Hill of Hill Drilling and Chair of DCED's PA Grade Crude Development Advisory Council , wrote to DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell criticizing the agency for working with Penn State University on independent studies on the effectiveness and environmental impacts of the road dumping of drilling wastewater that the Council had been aware of since August of 2020.

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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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Stacking order in a 2D magnet produces Dirac magnons

Physics World

Three years ago, an international team of researchers observed something unexpected in a sample of chromium triiodide (CrI 3 ): quasiparticles known as magnons appeared to be travelling along its edges, rather than moving through the sample’s bulk. This observation suggested that this two-dimensional layered magnetic material acts as a so-called topological magnon insulator – an unusual property with important applications in the field of dissipationless spintronics.

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CONSOL Energy Sets Goals Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 50% By 2026, Achieve Net Zero Emissions By 2040; Coal Mining Produces More GHG Emissions Than Natural Gas Production In PA

PA Environment Daily

On October 13, CONSOL Energy announced it is setting an interim goal to reduce its direct operating greenhouse gas emissions (referred to as scope 1 and scope 2 emissions) on an absolute basis by 50 percent over a five year period (or by the end of 2026), compared to 2019 baseline levels and measured as the rate of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) emitted.