Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

Abu Dhabi Global Market, the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, is partnering with AirCarbon Exchange to create the world's first fully regulated carbon trading exchange and carbon clearing house which will be established in Abu Dhabi and serve corporations. The post First Regulated Carbon Credit Trading Exchange for Corporations to Open appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s been over a month since President Putin launched a deadly and destructive war in Ukraine. Conditions continue to worsen, with the death toll rising rapidly, 4 million people forced to flee abroad, a quarter of the country’s population displaced, and the wider humanitarian and economic impacts increasingly evident. Restoring peace must be a priority for world leaders.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

Cyclyx introduces its 10 to 90 Challenge with a goal of helping businesses and communities expand the plastic recycling rate. The post Cyclyx Program Aims to Significantly Increase Plastic Recycling appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 30, 2022

Solar panels in Oregon. Photo © Oregon Department of Transportation / Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Experts say mismanagement of resources could plunge Morocco into a water crisis as climate change worsens. Cameroon faces its most recent cholera outbreak. Michigan lawmakers pass a major spending bill, including billions for water infrastructure. Australian officials propose a major damming project that has been met with intense criticism for bypassing standard process.

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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.

Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

The Clean Energy Buyers Institute (CEBI) has launched the Decarbonizing Industrial Supply Chain Energy (DISC-e) initiative, which tackles industrial sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The post Clean Energy Buyers Institute Launches Decarbonizing Initiative appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy from wind and solar will depend on upgrading the electric power grid, which is currently plagued by planning delays and gridlock. To address such problems, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which supervises utility company and grid operator planning, is in the midst of proposing new transmission planning rules.

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Yale E360

MARCH 30, 2022

If wind and solar power continue the rapid growth they achieved over the last decade, rising by 20 percent annually until 2030, the global electricity sector will do its part to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, according to a new report from climate think tank Ember. Read more on E360 ?.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 30, 2022

Author Ethan Wood. Louisiana’s compulsory pooling scheme seeks to balance the interests of individual landowners and oil and gas operators to promote responsible development of natural resources. Because of compulsory pooling, operators are not held hostage by individual landowners who refuse to lease, but landowners are afforded protections so as not to be taken for a ride by unscrupulous operators.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

On March 30, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced the Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines (STREAM) Act (S. 3957) with U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright (D-PA-8) and David McKinley (R-WV-1). Acid mine drainage (AMD)—the release of highly acidic water from abandoned mines— is one of the largest sources of water pollution throughout the country and threatens the health and safety of Americans living near abandoned mine lands.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

Read the full story in GreenBiz. Remember climate change? It’s not an entirely facetious question. With a brutal war and humanitarian crisis raging in Eastern Europe, a resulting global energy crisis, a quickly unfolding food crisis, a shaky global economy, raging inflation — oh, and a still-rampaging pandemic, with all its health and mental health impacts — it’s been not-so-easy to keep the climate … Continue reading Climate change’s attention deficit disorder.

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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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Environmental Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

The DOE will require all new federal buildings and those with major retrofits to meet certain energy standards starting next year. The post DOE Implementing Energy Standards for New and Updated Federal Buildings appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

by Gabriel Cardoso Carrero, University of Florida; Cynthia S. Simmons, University of Florida, and Robert T. Walker, University of Florida Imagine that a group of politicians decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big, so they downsize the park by a million acres, then sell that land in a private auction. Outrageous? Yes. Unheard of? … Continue reading The great Amazon land grab – how Brazil’s government is clearing the way for deforestation.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

Several countries are now abandoning their goal of reducing the coronavirus's spread as much as possible, but the evidence shows this was the best route to have taken, says Michael Marshall

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

by Elsie Puig-Santana, PNNL Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have released a unique data set containing more than 5 million raw data points on the movement, behavior, and location of juvenile Chinook salmon as they traveled down the Columbia River through hydroelectric dams on their way to the Pacific Ocean. PNNL decided to share the … Continue reading Newly released data show how fish pass through dams.

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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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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

To make sense of mysteries like quantum mechanics and the passage of time, theorists are trying to reformulate physics to include subjective experience as a physical constituent of the world

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

Source: Oregon State University Oregon State University researchers have created a tool to assess the risk of hybridization among native and non-native fish, a development that could aid natural resource managers trying to protect threatened or endangered freshwater fish species. The introduction of non-native species poses challenges to native species, including competition for resources and … Continue reading Researchers create tool to help protect native fish from hybridizing with non-n

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The Applied Ecologist

MARCH 30, 2022

Each year, Journal of Applied Ecology awards the Southwood Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. In this post, Lina Yang (Minjiang University) discusses her shortlisted paper which used an experimental approach to understand how host population heterogeneity may affect the evolution of fungicide resistance in the associated pathogens.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2022

US Special Climate Envoy John Kerry during COP26. B y Anders Lorenzen. Analysis by Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy has confirmed, that climate pledges are far below what is required if we are to halt dangerous climate change. The analysis showed that the promised action would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 9% this decade, far short of the global goal to cut emissions by nearly half by 2030.

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Physics World

MARCH 30, 2022

The intense global effort to produce more sustainable power sources has swelled the ranks of scientists and engineers who depend upon electrochemistry to develop better solutions for energy storage and generation. At the same time, experimentalists in many other disciplines are increasingly turning to novel electrochemical techniques to probe and understand fundamental processes in both physical and biological systems.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

What qualifies as trauma has become a hotly debated issue, with implications for treating people who experience PTSD – and the way we respond to things like the pandemic and police killings

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Physics World

MARCH 30, 2022

I remember once while I was at school being asked to fill in a questionnaire in class to discover my personal learning style: visual, auditory or kinaesthetic. That last one sounded exotic, but the teacher told us that it meant you learned best by being physically involved in activities, rather than absorbing information through listening to explanations or watching demonstrations.

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National Law Center

MARCH 30, 2022

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. . The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: March 30, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

With the mRNA covid-19 vaccines being delivered to growing numbers of young people, researchers are looking again at the rare risk of heart inflammation

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Environmental Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

The DOE will require all new federal buildings and those with major retrofits to meet certain energy standards starting next year. The post DOE Implementing Energy Standards for New and Updated Federal Buildings appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

An artificial intelligence trained to mimic the logic circuits of an ordinary computer can run code within itself, potentially speeding up certain calculations

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2022

First-ever compilation of Canadian data on public subsidies for carbon capture technology documents billions in funding, but meager climate results . Unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe Territories [Ottawa, ON] – A new report released today by Environmental Defence, Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada , reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $8.6 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2021 alone – a substantial amount of taxpayer money

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

A network of 100,000 animals connected by trackers and watched from space could explain extraordinary animal behaviour and help forecast volcanic eruptions, extreme weather and emerging diseases

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

Read the full story at ESG Today. Starbucks announced the launch of a program using only reusable cups in all beverages at its SODO 8 Starbucks café located in its Seattle office. The new test program follows the launch last year by Starbucks of the Borrow-a-Cup initiative at several Seattle-area test stores. The program enables customers to … Continue reading Starbucks tests 100% reusable cup store.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

With spring arriving in the UK, it’s the perfect time to create bee hotels, designed to be snug and safe for these important pollinating insects, says Clare Wilson

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

Download the document. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) aims to reduce the environmental impacts of solar energy. This plan outlines research activities that can enable safe and environmentally sound handling of PV EOL materials. Actions taken now will improve the likelihood that supporting technologies will be developed to handle … Continue reading Solar Energy Technologies Office Photovoltaics End-of-Life Action Plan.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

A star in a galaxy that is now more than 27 billion light years away may allow us to understand the very first stars after the big bang

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

Read the full story from Anthropocene Magazine. The share of the population over 65 in wealthy countries is projected to double by 2050. Investigating the carbon implications of this trend, researchers discovered some surprising patterns.

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New Scientist

MARCH 30, 2022

Andrea Arnold’s documentary debut, featuring a loveable dairy cow, prompts difficult questions about raising animals entirely for human benefit

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