Yale E360
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The growing market for rubber is a major, but largely overlooked, cause of tropical deforestation, new analysis shows. Most of the rubber goes to produce tires, more than 2 billion a year, and experts warn the transition to electric vehicles could accelerate rubber use.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 4, 2023
We’re well into the first week of COP28, the annual UN climate talks, and have secured a promising early win on operationalizing the Loss and Damage Fund. The United States has made important announcements on standards to limit methane emissions , along with a contribution to the Green Climate Fund. But things are definitely getting harder here in Dubai.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 4, 2023
It’s not surprising that Bernie Sanders said, rather emphatically, that he was not a friend of Kissinger’s. Yet there was one issue where they did agree: climate change. If there was one thing that Henry Kissinger stood for, it was the hard-headed “realist” view of foreign policy — a view that prioritizes national interest at all costs, rejecting idealism as weak-minded sentimentality.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Last year, I made three predictions for what would happen in climate litigation in 2023. Two of my predictions hit the mark, while the other one revealed the complexity of the legal battles waged against climate injustice. Below I reflect on my predictions before venturing into the uncharted territory of 2024. 2023 in Review US cases heard on merits: A mixed bag.
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.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 4, 2023
This Post was Co-Authored by Sharon Jacobs and Dave Owen For many decades, most people in the United States have obtained their electricity from a large investor-owned utility company (IOU). They had no real choice. Much of U.S. energy law was built on the belief that the best way to provide electricity was to give investor-owned utilities monopolies over large areas but to require regulators to review and approve those utilities’ rates to prevent pricing that was either “unjust” or “unreasonabl
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 4, 2023
As hard as it is for Black students to earn advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) fields, a final insult accompanies the diploma. They leave school dragging a ball and chain of debt far heavier than that for most White graduates. The latest evidence of this comes in a report last week by the Research Triangle Institute and the Sloan Foundation.
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Scientific American
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Scattered evidence suggests that aberrant proteins act as “seeds” to transmit neurodegenerative disease, but the jury is still out
New Scientist
DECEMBER 4, 2023
To hold and cool computer servers, China has installed a 1300-tonne watertight cabin on the shallow seafloor – it is the first of 100 planned for an underwater data centre
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 4, 2023
On December 4, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission Hydrologic Conditions Monitor tracked the shutdown of four shale gas drilling water withdrawal points due to low streamflow conditions in Bradford and Tioga counties. The SRBC bypass trigger flows are independent of general drought condition changes reported by the Department of Environmental Protection as recently as December 2.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Despite urgent calls to slash fossil fuel use to meet climate targets, the Global Carbon Budget report shows that 2023 emissions will be about 1.
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.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 4, 2023
On December 4, the Independent Fiscal Office reported third quarter natural gas production in Pennsylvania was down 0.5% from the third quarter of 2022, but has increased slightly over the past 12 months. From July to September 2023, production was 1,870 billion cubic feet, up from 1,857 billion cubic feet in 4th quarter 2022, 1,845 billion cubic feet in first quarter 2023 and 1,864 billion cubic feet in second quarter 2023.
New Scientist
DECEMBER 4, 2023
A female megamouth shark was found in the Philippines with one pup alongside her and six fetuses inside her body
Endangered Species Law
DECEMBER 4, 2023
On November 30, 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a final rule listing a distinct population segment (DPS) of the North American wolverine ( Gulo gulo luscas ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The wolverine is a medium-sized carnivore found in Alaska, Canada, and the western-northwestern United States.
NRDC
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Proposed regs encourage new AC installs to be heat pumps, enabling customers to access heating and cooling in one clean appliance.
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 4, 2023
Artificial intelligence may never reach its full potential without a body to interact with the physical world.
Washington Nature
DECEMBER 4, 2023
by Leah Palmer, TNC writer/editor A Historic Herd In the wee hours of a frosty night, under the Full Hunter’s Moon, more than 65 North American Plains Bison, commonly known as “buffalo,” were transferred from TNC’s Niobrara Preserve in Nebraska to the Kalispel Tribe of Indians in the far Northeast corner of Washington. The herd, which ranged in size and age, was delayed on their journey nearly twelve hours by a fierce snowstorm.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 4, 2023
At the COP28 climate meeting, the EPA announced the final version of a rule that aims to deeply cut methane emissions by requiring equipment upgrades and regular leak inspections
New Scientist
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Gene variants that have an unusally large effect on some people's heights have been discovered by analysing the genomes of more than 300,000 individuals
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Scientific American
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Italy’s Campi Flegrei volcano has caused thousands of recent earthquakes and pushed up the ground, worrying 1.
Earth 911
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The volume of electronic waste doubles about every six years as technology plays a more. The post Earth911 Podcast: Alchemy’s James Murdock on Building a Circular Economy for Technology appeared first on Earth911.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 4, 2023
A long-term decline in unsupervised activity may be contributing to mental health declines in children and adolescents.
Inside Climate News
DECEMBER 4, 2023
New U.S. and EU regulations on methane emissions strengthen calls for a binding international agreement to curb the climate pollution. By Phil McKenna The Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations at the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai on Saturday that will reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by nearly 80 percent.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 4, 2023
A brain drain from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could pose problems for the space agency’s ambitious science plans
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 4, 2023
On December 4, Susquehanna River Basin Commission published a groundbreaking study focused on groundwater recharge potential in over-utilized areas with limited water availability. The study – Identifying Optimal Groundwater Recharge Locations and Critical Aquifer Recharge Areas within the Susquehanna River Basin – was completed by the Commission to help identify important areas of the basin.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Carbon capture technology is a PR fig leaf designed to help Big Oil delay the phase-out of fossil fuels
New Scientist
DECEMBER 4, 2023
IBM has revealed two quantum computers.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Click Here To View Or Print The Entire December 4 PA Environment Digest 64 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic DEP- EQT Settlement Agreement Allows Fracking To Resume From 2 Shale Gas Well Pads In Area Impacted By Frack-Out In New Freeport, Greene County; Does Not Address Water Supply Issues Of Residents DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Reduction Program; Spill Po
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Dubai, UAE – Today at COP28, Export Development Canada (EDC) joined four other export credit agencies to launch the Net-Zero Export Credit Agencies Alliances (NZECA). NZECA is an alliance of international public finance institutions committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Scientific American
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The complexity of the brain comes to life in the annual Art of Neuroscience competition
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We applaud Canada for introducing these methane regulations amendments and following up on the commitment to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 75 per cent by 2030.
Brag
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) “advis[ed] the public” on December 1, 2023, of its determination that DP23211 maize (corn) that has been developed using genetic engineering for insect resistance to western corn rootworm and contains the gene that codes for the phosphinothricin acetyltransferase protein responsible for tolerance to glufosinate-ammonium herbicides, as well as the gene that encodes for the phosphomannose isomerase prote
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Over the weekend, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule that will sharply reduce methane and other harmful air pollutants from the oil and natural gas industry, including from hundreds of thousands of existing sources nationwide, promote the use of cutting-edge methane detection technologies, and deliver significant economic and public health benefits.
Environmental Law Reporter
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Fossil Fuel Production Projections Rachel Jean-Baptiste Mon, 12/04/2023 - 16:28 Volume 53 Issue 12
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