Legal Planet
JULY 10, 2023
The rapid spread of net-zero targets in climate policy has been accompanied by a surge of interest in offsetting markets. In our market economies it is easy to presume that net targets will get delivered by offsetting residual emissions against carbon removals. But the Paris Agreement actually only specifies that global aggregate residual emissions be in balance with sinks.
Law and Environment
JULY 10, 2023
On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050. The BEUDO amendment sets one of the most ambitious municipal net zero building targets in the country and establishes a new benchmark for climate-focused cities—yet questions remain as to whether these goals can actually be achie
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PA Environment Daily
JULY 10, 2023
The third annual Penn State Solar Law Symposium will be held virtually on August 23, from noon to 4:30 p.m., for attorneys and energy professionals. The event, co-sponsored by Penn State Extension, Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy , and the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law , is designed for those with beginning and intermediate levels of solar law knowledge.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is there life in the sea that hasn’t been discovered? – Haven W., age 12, McKinney, Texas Imagine going to a place on Earth where no … Continue reading Is there life in the sea that hasn’t been discovered?
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.
Scientific American
JULY 10, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Download the report. Pennsylvania is one of America’s largest sources of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, most of which comes from the burning of fossil fuels and methane. Just 12 industrial facilities, power plants, mines and other large polluters — Pennsylvania’s “Dirty Dozen” — account for nearly one-fifth of the commonwealth’s total climate pollution.
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Scientific American
JULY 10, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Enviromental Defense
JULY 10, 2023
This post was co-written by Michelle Woodhouse, Program Manager, Fresh Water Welcome to stop number two on the journey of plastic in Canada. We’ve left the Athabasca region and the destructive tar sands. Next, we’ll take a disturbing trip down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline which transports oil mined in Alberta to refineries in eastern Canada. This Plastic Free July, we’re sharing the full story—and impacts—of plastics in Canada.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 10, 2023
On July 10, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the members of a steering committee who will be tasked with developing a protocol to allocate $5 million in funding for community projects in Beaver County from the settlement of Shell Petrochemical Plant air quality violations. The Environmental Mitigation Fund steering committee will take public feedback into account as they develop the allocation protocol and will host an open meeting for the public on Thursday, July 13, 2023, f
New Scientist
JULY 10, 2023
The discovery of low-level ripples throughout the universe called the gravitational wave background has set physicists looking for exotic explanations
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
JULY 10, 2023
By Noah Evans, Penn State News Jayné Park-Martinez began volunteering with Penn State Extension’s Master Watershed Steward Program in 2018 and has been making an impact on the surrounding community ever since. With a background in geology, Park-Martinez — who is also an assistant teaching professor in science at Penn State Berks — first embarked on her journey with the program by installing a rain garden in her backyard and then applying this new skill to revegetate a stormwater basin on Penn St
NRDC
JULY 10, 2023
A new fact sheet shows that adopting a full Colorado Clean Cars program can bring $20 billion of health and environmental benefits to the state.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 10, 2023
By Kevin Sliman, Penn State News In 2013, Penn State launched the Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas, an interactive online database of Pennsylvania’s underground mines. Managed by Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA), which is a part of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP), the Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas houses over 100,000 high-resolution scans of original mine maps, which are overlaid onto a modern map
NRDC
JULY 10, 2023
Help our West Coast marine life and ask the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission to require stronger management measures.
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
JULY 10, 2023
Last year's summer was the hottest season ever recorded in Europe, and a new estimate shows there were over 61,000 heat-related excess deaths during this period
Scientific American
JULY 10, 2023
A replicability crisis threatens computational science without shared code, data and methods from studies. A new replication agreement system can mitigate this crisis.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Read the full story from The 19th. Activists want the agency’s new office for environmental justice to make the health of pregnant people, which is threatened by a changing climate and pollutants, an explicit priority.
Scientific American
JULY 10, 2023
Kids don’t typically advance academically during the summer, but the research isn’t clear on whether they forget what they’ve already learned
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Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Read the full story from Penn State University. Rare earth elements, like neodymium and dysprosium, are a critical component to almost all modern technologies, from smartphones to hard drives, but they are notoriously hard to separate from the Earth’s crust and from one another.
Scientific American
JULY 10, 2023
New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Read the full story in Food Dive. Upcycling company Do Good Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to a filing in Delaware. The Bedminster, New Jersey-based company developed a closed-loop system to convert grocery food that can’t be sold or donated into nutrient-dense animal feed.
Scientific American
JULY 10, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Read the full story at GreenBiz. Fashion retailers and brands must work more closely with their supply chains to verify their sustainability credentials, a new report finds.
Earth 911
JULY 10, 2023
How can we make one of the most recycled materials more sustainable? Meet Jennifer Bogs, The post Earth911 Podcast: Crown Holding’s Jennifer Bogs on Making Aluminum More Sustainable appeared first on Earth911.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Download the report. This report investigates the barriers to more effective and efficient interconnection of distributed energy storage resources. The report is informed by research and interviews with key stakeholders in the energy industry and the state energy policy community. Interviewees provided insight into the obstacles to efficient interconnection and discussed potential solutions.
Frontiers
JULY 10, 2023
by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Normobaric oxygen, delivered at the same pressure as the atmosphere, is often used to maximize brain cell survival in patients with neurological trauma. Scientists found that giving experimental participants normobaric oxygen through a nasal cannula helped them learn a new visuomotor task more quickly and effectively, raising hopes that this oxygen intervention could also be used for rehabilitation.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Download the report. The recent collaborative efforts between five predominant sustainability reporting standard setters suggest that corporate reporting standardization might be possible in the near future. The topics of double materiality and mandatory reporting have been explored in the literature.
Washington Nature
JULY 10, 2023
By Anya Blaney Cody Desautel, Executive Director of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservations, brings vast experience as a leader, land steward, and forestry professional to The Nature Conservancy in Washington's board of directors, preserving the heritage of the state's forests for seven generations in the future. The Nature Conservancy in Washington is proud to have Cody Desautel, Executive Director of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservations, on its board of directors.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Read the full story from the University of Waterloo. Municipal climate action plans often identify equity and justice as goals, but engagement with these concepts is mostly rhetorical. A new study details how planners can bridge the gap and challenge the current state of climate change and social inequity.
NRDC
JULY 10, 2023
A capacity price spike impacted Illinoisans’ electricity bills last June. How have things changed? It’s a mixed bag—with too many fossil fuels inside.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 10, 2023
Read the full story at Utility Dive. Accelerating industrial electrification requires policymakers to ensure increased electricity demand is supplied with new least-cost clean generation in rural areas with high-quality renewables.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 10, 2023
On July 10, Gov. Shapiro and PA Emergency Management Agency Director Randy Padfield visited the Lower Alsace Township building in Berks County to meet with local Lower Alsace Township leaders and first responders after Sunday’s flash flooding. Gov. Shapiro and Director Padfield received a briefing on the current situation, toured the damage along Antietam Creek, and pledged the Shapiro Administration's full support as the community recovers from the damage.
New Scientist
JULY 10, 2023
Our understanding of aromaticity, a concept that underpins life itself, has been thrown into chaos.
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