Yale E360
JANUARY 10, 2023
After recovering from Saddam Hussein’s efforts to drain them, southern Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes are disappearing as a regional drought enters its fourth year and dams cut off water flows. Marsh Arabs, resident for millennia, are leaving, and biodiversity is collapsing. Read more on E360 →.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 10, 2023
Fish tracking project builds the case for international conservation cooperation. In June 2022, fishers in Cambodia caught a giant freshwater stingray weighing 661 pounds (300 kilos). It turned out to be the largest freshwater fish ever caught. The stingray was tagged with a tracking device and returned to the Mekong River, where its movements are informing conservation planning.
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Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 10, 2023
Netherlands-based Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has announced its intention to convert their fleet of 300 company cars into electric vehicles by 2026. The post CCEP Fleet to be 100% Electric by 2026 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 10, 2023
Transcript. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. In the United States, the holiday season was marked by winter storms that showed how vulnerable water systems are to extreme weather. Cold winters are unusual in the American South, but temperatures dipped below freezing in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
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
JANUARY 10, 2023
McCormick is doubling down on its commitment to climate change, environmental compliance, and raw material procurement. It aims to be net zero in 2050, The post McCormick Is Working to Make Its Supply Chain More Sustainable appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2023
Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. In 2022, the nation experienced 18 disasters with costs exceeding a billion dollars each, and together these disasters caused at least 474 deaths.
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Energy & the Law
JANUARY 10, 2023
The question in Kim R. Smith Logging Inc. v. Indigo Minerals LLC was whether a disgruntled Louisiana royalty owner sent its demand for unpaid royalties to the right party. It turns out that it did. Mineral interest owner Cherry executed an oil and gas lease. Plaintiff Smith Logging purchased the property and Cherry retained his mineral interests.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 10, 2023
There are Supreme Court cases going back a century or more dealing with what we would now consider environmental issues such as preserving nature or air pollution. But when did the Court start seeing filthy rivers and smokey cities as embodiments of the same problem, despite their striking physical differences? And when it did start thinking of “wilderness” as a good thing rather than a failure to use available resources?
National Law Center
JANUARY 10, 2023
In the past two years or so, as discussed in the first article of this four-part series, the issue of restricting. The post State Proposals on Restricting Foreign Ownership of Farmland: Part Two appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Inhabitant
JANUARY 10, 2023
Building a house is time-consuming, requires a large number of raw materials and labor and is not environmentally friendly. Now, imagine a world where houses are built quickly, yet affordable and even sustainable. This may sound surreal, but it is actually happening — thanks to 3D printing technology.
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.
Scientific American
JANUARY 10, 2023
Though renewable energy surpassed coal generation for the first time in 60 years, causing U.S. power emissions to decline, emissions from buildings and transportation went up in 2022.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
In a small study, cyclic sighing - inhaling slowly and then taking another short breath in to fully inflate the lungs, before breathing out for as long as possible - was particularly effective at lifting people's moods
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2023
A January 3 DEP inspection report shows Energy Transfer reported a nine and a half hour uncontrolled release of ethane and other vapors from its Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County during a Christmas Day explosion and fire at the plant. The company reported ethane and other vapors began to leak at about 7:20 a.m. on December 25 and ceased as of 4:59 p.m. the same day.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
Removing polymers from wood, leaving tiny cavities, can drastically improve the material's insulating properties without removing too much of its strength, which might make it useful in buildings
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.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2023
On January 10, Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro announced he will nominate Rich Negrin to be Secretary of DEP and retain Cindy Dunn as DCNR Secretary and Russell Redding as Agriculture Secretary. Rich Negrin Negrin has served as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, as Managing Director and Deputy Mayor for the City of Philadelphia, Vice President and General Counsel for Aramark Healthcare, as a corporate litigation attorney in the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and mo
Inhabitant
JANUARY 10, 2023
University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new solar-powered system to convert greenhouse gases and plastic waste into sustainable fuels. The new solar-powered reactor could have applications for many industries.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2023
On January 10, the Better Path Coalition submitted a list of needed environmental and climate policy changes to Governor-Elect Shapiro and members of his environmental transition team. The letter urges Shapiro to take immediate steps toward a ban on fracking by reinstating the ban on drilling and fracking in Dimock, Susquehanna County that was lifted by the Department of Environmental Protection the same day he announced Coterra’s no-contest plea in the grand jury case.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
A group of ancient galaxies examined by the James Webb Space Telescope contain an order of magnitude fewer stars than expected and they are strangely dim
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CEQA Developments
JANUARY 10, 2023
As all CEQA practitioners know, a prospective petitioner in a writ proceeding challenging a CEQA determination must first exhaust available administrative remedies as a prerequisite to filing suit. But which remedies are subject to that requirement? That is the question presented in the recent case of American Chemistry Council v. Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (5th Dist. 2022) Cal.App.5th , originally filed on November 18, 2022, and certified for publication on December 12, 2022.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
A new effort to routinely sequence the genes of viruses that cause severe respiratory infections, such as flu and RSV, could lead to better treatments and vaccines
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2023
DCNR’s Bureau of State Parks New Year’s edition of its Environmental Education newsletter is now available and includes articles on-- -- Teaching Ideas, Activities, & Lessons for Winter! -- Winter In-Person & Virtual Educator Professional Development Workshops -- Conferences for Educators -- Explore the Outdoors! -- Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) -- PA State Park Updates Click Here to read the entire EE newsletter.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
Lar gibbons call out sounds that are synchronised and occur at regular intervals, musical qualities only previously seen in lemurs and humans
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 10, 2023
by Marc Hudson, University of Sussex The idea that a technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS) could catch molecules of CO₂ as they emerge from the chimneys of power stations and factories has been around for more than two decades. Michael Gove, the secretary of state responsible for “levelling up” the UK’s regions, recently … Continue reading Cumbria coal mine: empty promises of carbon capture tech have excused digging up more fossil fuel for decades.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
Analysis of sulphate particles in a Greenland ice core suggests we have underestimated the impact of volcanoes, and overestimated the contribution of anthropogenic sources
A Greener Life
JANUARY 10, 2023
Ski slopes in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina pictured in early January with barely any snow. Photo credit: Reuters / Kirsten Donovan. By Anders Lorenzen. 2022 was dominated by extreme weather events, and if the start of 2023 is anything to go by, this trend is set to continue. As 2022 turned into 2023, record-high temperatures swept across the European continent, prompting activists to call for faster action on climate change.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
From weather to the structure of proteins, some things are predictable in theory, but too complex to figure out in practice.
Arnold Porter
JANUARY 10, 2023
Private fund manager and investment adviser entities, even those located outside of California, may not be aware that they may now, as of January 1, 2023, have compliance obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act, which broadly protects California residents with respect to the privacy of their personal information.
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
We use logic to build facts into systems of thought, but paradoxes force us to question what we think we know.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2023
On January 10, the Delaware River Basin Commission released an assessment of current and projected groundwater availability for the Delaware River Basin. The results are summarized in a new report, Estimated Groundwater Availability in the Delaware River Basin 2020–2060. "While groundwater only accounts for about 5% of the total water withdrawals from the Delaware River Basin, it is a critical water source in need of sustainable use and planning," said Michael Thompson, a Water Resource Engineer
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
We will never fully know what pain, colour and love are really like for other people – never mind other animals.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2023
The Brandywine Conservancy recently acted as the lead planning consultant to update Malvern Borough’s Comprehensive Plan. This critical document provides a vision to help guide the growth and preservation of the Borough over the next 10-20 years. As a blueprint for the future, the Plan outlines key values, goals and recommendations for land use, natural and recreational resources, open space and land preservation, historic resources, transportation, community facilities and services, and urban r
New Scientist
JANUARY 10, 2023
If we can’t measure something, we can’t know its true nature.
Edouard Stenger
JANUARY 10, 2023
What if cities tomorrow were using all their waste as resources to the circular economy ? This would entail quite a dramatic change from the current – unsustainable – way of doing things. Instead of sending valuable materials to a landfill where they could take centuries if not millenia to degrade, they could be used to further benefit our communities.
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