Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Walmart is investing in a vertical farming company and will offer its produce in California, adding to its sustainability efforts. The post Walmart Expands Sustainability Effort by Investing in Vertical Farming Company appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
This being Black History Month, I thought it would be worthwhile looking at the fossil fuel industry’s racial history. Given the historic concentration of the oil and coal industries in the South, it is no surprise to find that these industries have also been deeply entangled with Jim Crow and its legacy of discrimination. Oil and gas. The oil industry has a long, deplorable history on race issues.
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Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
State Farm Arena in Atlanta continues its quest to be a zero-waste events facility with a successful drive at a recent Billie Eilish performance. The post Billie Eilish Fans at State Farm Arena Produce a Nearly Zero-Waste Show appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
A Q&A with Elizabeth Walle of the Food Chain Workers Alliance on the recent increase in organizing activity among workers who want unions.
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
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Boeing today announced a supply agreement for two million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The post Boeing Buys 2 Million Gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Cities that have hosted the Winter Olympics are seeing rapidly warming temperatures and diminishing snowfall. In Beijing, host of this year's games, February temperatures have risen by almost 9 degrees F since 1950, according to a new analysis from Climate Central. Read more on E360 ?.
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Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
by Lisa Sheppard, Prairie Research Institute The debate continues: how much risk to human health is the transfer of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) through soils to food plants when biosolids, sewage effluents, and animal wastes are applied to fields?
Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Walmart is investing in a vertical farming company and will offer its produce in California, adding to its sustainability efforts. The post Walmart Expands Sustainability Effort by Investing in Vertical Farming Company appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
by Taylor Dotson, New Mexico Tech Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing opinions on COVID-19 risk or abortion, but basic facts like election counts and whether vaccines work. Surveying rising political antagonism, journalist George Packer recently wondered in The Atlantic, “Are we doomed?
Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Companies’ pledges were undermined by dubious plans to reduce emissions elsewhere via carbon offsetting, accounting tricks, hidden information, and the exclusion of indirect emissions sources. The post Climate Pledges of Amazon, Google, Walmart, Others Found to Have Low Integrity 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.
Washington Nature
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Transportation emissions are the largest producer of greenhouse gases in Washington state. In order to achieve the state’s climate goals — net zero by 2050 — we must make immediate and bold investments to reduce and decarbonize emissions in this sector. This year, the state Legislature has a unique opportunity to pass a transportation package that supports investments for sustainable and climate-focused transportation systems.
Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
companies’ pledges were undermined by dubious plans to reduce emissions elsewhere via carbon offsetting, accounting tricks, hidden information, and the exclusion of indirect emissions sources. The post Climate Pledges of Amazon, Google, Walmart, Others Found to Have Low Integrity appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Where’s the snow? Photo credit: Tingshu Wang / Reuters. By Anders Lorenzen. The Winter Olympics started in China on the 4th of February, have been presenting stark warnings about how climate change has started to impact the Olympic Games. Climate change has already made it challenging to find the right location for the summer Games and the winter Games are even tougher to host as snow and ice must be guaranteed.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
On February 7, the Department of Environmental Protection announced conventional oil and gas drillers with unresolved environmental violations will not be awarded contracts to plug conventional wells under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law oil and gas well plugging program. DEP’s comments came at an informational meeting held by the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee on the new well plugging funding.
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
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
In 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated Caribbean communities, and we now know it had an impact on monkeys too - macaques that lived through the stressful experience have aged at an accelerated rate
National Law Center
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. REGULATORY: AMS, The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: February 7, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Sparrows on a collection of Canadian islands change their behaviour when they fear predators are nearby, and an experiment shows this reduces their ability to raise their offspring to adulthood
Inside Climate News
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The intergovernmental organization, based in Paris, derives about a quarter of its budget from subscriptions costing almost $18,000 a year. Activists say the fees are an impediment to climate-related research by nonprofits. By Andrew Marquardt and Jeannie Kopstein WASHINGTON—A growing number of activists and academics are calling on the International Energy Agency to make its data free and available to everyone, ahead of the agency’s biennial board meeting in Paris next month.
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New Scientist
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
People with complete paralysis from the waist down following spinal cord injuries have regained some control over their legs with a spinal implant
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Read the full story in Food Safety Magazine. A new study posits that climate change occurring in Europe could impact the microbiological quality of raw milk.
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Chimps at Loango National Park in Gabon apply small winged insects to their wounds in an apparent form of self-medication, but it is unclear why
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Download the document. Global energy and environmental challenges have spurred an increased focus on sustainable sources of energy while global investments in the green energy sector have surged.
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
A new global analysis suggests glaciers in the Andes contain less ice than we thought – but the glaciers of the Himalayas are thicker
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Read the full story in the Effingham Daily News. The same Midwest land that grows corn for ethanol could also serve as a storage site for carbon emitted by biorefineries. That production and sequestration cycle is at the heart of a pipeline project proposed across 13 Illinois counties and parts of four other states.
Earth 911
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Sam Teicher, co-founder and Chief Reef Officer at Coral Vita, a social enterprise that grows. The post Earth911 Podcast: Coral Vita’s Sam Teicher Explains the Critical Need to Restore the World’s Reefs appeared first on Earth911.
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Read the full story at Food Engineering. The United Nations estimates that the global demand for water will increase 20% to 30% by 2050 to meet the food needs of a projected population of 9.8 billion.
HumanNature
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Guest Post by Annie Kellner , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Polar bears have become the global bellwether of climate change: a symbol for an impending catastrophe that will forever change the natural world as we know it.
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Read the full post at the Green Law blog. Climate Gentrification can occur when a neighborhood lacking climate resiliency is made uninhabitable or less attractive to current and potential residents and developers.
PBS Nature
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The post How Dolphins Lead the Feast appeared first on Nature.
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Read the full story at Radio Iowa. Governor Kim Reynolds says carbon pipelines are private sector projects and she does not support direct state investment in any of the pipelines that are proposed.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
On February 7, As the number of Lyme disease cases in the state and across the nation continues to rise, officials from the departments of Health, Education, and Conservation and Natural Resources encouraged Pennsylvanians to participate in the 2022 Lyme Art Contest to promote awareness of the prevalence of ticks and the types of diseases they carry.
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Read the full story at Vox. The lead problem is global. It’s catastrophic in scope and hurting children’s ability to learn, earn a living when they grow up, and function in society. Yet lead has gotten comparatively little attention in the global public health space.
Frontiers
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
We are delighted to announce that the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University has formed an open access publishing agreement with Frontiers. Wake Forest University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the Z. Smith Reynolds library at Wake Forest University has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers.
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