Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 25, 2024

Two key pieces of Federal support for electric vehicle (EV) charging are coming into place to accelerate EV infrastructure installation for all kinds of vehicles. The first is the announcement of Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grant Program awards—$623 million representing the first two years of the program’s budget—which provides funding for EV charging and other alternative fueling stations along highway corridors and in communities.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Researchers calculated the number of pregnancies resulting from rape in states where abortion was banned throughout pregnancy after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision

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NRDC

JANUARY 25, 2024

The fossil fuel industry is selling a false narrative that liquefied natural gas (LNG) expansion is a “climate solution” because it displaces coal consumption globally. This claim doesn’t stand up against the facts. U.S. LNG has no or very limited.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Renewable energy will surpass coal power by 2025 and, with nuclear energy, will account for nearly half the world’s power generation by 2026, the International Energy Agency forecasts

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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.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Writing words down increases connectivity linked to memory and learning between different areas of the brain, with the same not being true when things are typed out on a computer

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, target metabolic pathways that gut microbes and food molecules already play a key role in regulating

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Infants born to people who had COVID while pregnant are at a higher risk of respiratory distress, but vaccination greatly lowers the risk

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Observations of the microquasar SS 433 provide clues to how these small black holes accelerate electrons to produce high-energy jets

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Owls are famously good at rotating their heads, but now anatomical findings suggest they really could go a full 360 degrees without injuring themselves

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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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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

On January 19, 2024, the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal reinstated the Formosa Plastics (“FG LA”) facility air permits, which the lower court had previously vacated. Rise St. James v. Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality , 2023-CA-0578. In September 2022, the district court vacated the facility’s air permits finding, among other reasons, that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) had not done a proper analysis under the Louisiana Public Trust Doctrine.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Big-headed ants are invading new territories in Kenya—and the consequences are rippling through the whole ecosystem, scientists have found

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

A never-before-seen type of star that puffs out enormous clouds challenges our ideas of what happens when giant stars reach the end of their lives

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

Money makes the world go round, and our interest in it is near universal. Whether we have a lot or a little of it, finance is central to our daily lives. And it’s central to solving the climate crisis and the challenges of sustainability. In this blog series, we will delve into the issue of sustainable finance, and the relationship between climate change and finance.

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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.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Jeremy Williams There’s a scene in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s book The Wind in the Willows where the wise Mr Badger rebukes the wayward Mr Toad. Badger takes him into the smoking room for a lecture, and then brings the repentant Toad out to tell his friends that he has seen the error of his ways: “Toad, I want you solemnly to repeat, before your friends here, what you fully admitted to me in the smoking room just now.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

This is yet another example of why there should be protections in place for both conventional oil and gas well operators and taxpayers to make sure situations like this are properly cleaned up and the well plugged. Another example last year was when a spill of conventional wastewater contaminated a spring serving as the water supply for the Village Of Reno in Venango County.

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The Applied Ecologist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Abigail Feuka discusses how she, alongside colleagues, employed three surveillance methods to estimate the probability of presence and spread of a low-prevalence pathogen at a landscape scale under incomplete sampling coverage. Wildlife disease The COVID-19 pandemic has brought disease transmission from animals to humans into the public spotlight.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, a strategy used by some modern birds

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National Law Center

JANUARY 25, 2024

The H-2A program, which allows employers to employ foreign nationals to fill temporary U.S. agricultural jobs, plays an essential role in. The post Challenges to the 2023 U.S. Department of Labor H-2A AEWR Methodology Rule appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Three fossils of Pachycormus fish from the dinosaur era feature smaller members of the same species in their guts - perhaps showing how the animals got by when food was scarce

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NRDC

JANUARY 25, 2024

Washington State introduces nation-leading legislation to set up an Extended Producer Responsibility program for climate-polluting refrigerants.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, a strategy used by some modern birds

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NRDC

JANUARY 25, 2024

The research plan identifies data needs to efficiently scale up offshore wind responsibly.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

We keep finding pancake-like objects in the solar system and it could be because they form in a certain way – from spinning clouds of pebbles

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

Statement from Aliénor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – The revelations from today’s report are deeply disturbing, but not surprising, given the industry’s track record. Oil companies in the tar sands are emitting 1900 to 6300 per cent more polluting gases than what they have been reporting.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Scientists built a robotic dinosaur to terrify grasshoppers, all in hopes of understanding how truly pathetic wings could offer prehistoric animals an evolutionary advantage

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New Scientist

JANUARY 25, 2024

Rebus puzzles provide wordplay challenges involving both images and text, and they can confound Silicon Valley’s most powerful AI models

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

NASA’s enterprising Mars helicopter and its remarkable 72 flights offered a new vision of planetary exploration

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Alexandra McLaughlin, Penn State News Have a question about managing invasive plants? Meet Art Gover. With 36 years of experience at Penn State as a researcher and educator in weed and vegetation management, Gover specializes in handling invasive species in natural settings. Now retired, he continues to share his expertise as a volunteer with the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Program.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

The world’s deepest and largest underground laboratory is scaling up its search for dark matter

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Delaware River Basin Commission is scheduled to hold a virtual February 7 hearing on water withdrawal requests, other proposals and a virtual business meeting to consider those requests and other issues on March 6. The February 7 hearing will start at 1:30 p.m. The March 6 meeting will start at 10:30 a.m. Click Here for information on the agenda, attending and offering comments at the virtual February 7 hearing and to attend the March 6 business meeting.

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NRDC

JANUARY 25, 2024

New publications on the impact of industrial logging in Canada reveal pervasive forest degradation and significant climate consequences,

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

On January 24, the National Association of Counties announced seven communities spanning 11 counties will be the recipients of individualized planning assistance and peer learning support through the Building Resilient Economies in Coal Communities (BRECC) Action Challenge. This marks the second year for the BRECC Action Challenge, which launched in 2023 with the support of the U.S.

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