Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized updated regulations for certain facilities that emit ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless, cancer-causing gas. These long-awaited rules will require facilities using EtO to sterilize medical devices and some food products—known as commercial sterilizers—to significantly reduce their emissions of EtO, install additional control equipment, and improve monitoring.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 18, 2024

Following extended negotiations, the directive was endorsed with a significantly narrower scope that would reduce the number of companies affected. By Paul A. Davies , Michael D. Green , and James Bee On 15 March 2024, EU Member States endorsed the Belgian Presidency’s political deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), despite Germany abstaining from the vote.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s well known that fossil fuels are the primary driver of climate change. A dirty secret is that they’re also the source of toxic chemicals linked to rising rates of chronic and deadly diseases. By Liza Gross Use of petroleum-based chemicals skyrocketed during the postwar era, most of them entering the market with little concern for safety. Now, mounting evidence links petrochemicals to the rapidly rising prevalence of a slew of chronic and deadly conditions, a review published in the New Engl

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New Scientist

MARCH 18, 2024

Only eating within an 8-hour window is associated with a significantly higher risk of heart disease-related death compared with eating over 12 to 16 hours

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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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NRDC

MARCH 18, 2024

Reducing food loss and waste offers an opportunity to address many of our world’s existential challenges, including combating the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, improving environmental health protections, and fighting racial injustice.

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New Scientist

MARCH 18, 2024

Efforts to extend our lifespan continue and many look promising, but success will have unintended consequences, says Nobel prizewinner Venki Ramakrishnan

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New Scientist

MARCH 18, 2024

A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carnivore teeth, suggesting that both hominins and felids feasted on its meat

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Scientific American

MARCH 18, 2024

Older people are particularly vulnerable to COVID and should get another vaccine against the disease this spring, doctors say

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New Scientist

MARCH 18, 2024

Fermat's last theorem puzzled mathematicians for centuries until it was finally proven in 1993.

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Scientific American

MARCH 18, 2024

The largest and most comprehensive studies of ‘Havana Syndrome’ point to stress or group psychology as likely explanations for most “anomalous health incidents”

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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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New Scientist

MARCH 18, 2024

A common anti-clotting drug called heparin is made from pig intestines, which risks contaminations and infections.

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Scientific American

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s vital to “keep humans in the loop” to avoid humanizing machine-learning models in research

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New Scientist

MARCH 18, 2024

The sand dunes that splay across the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan may be made of the ground-up remains of ancient irregular moons, rather than atmospheric particles

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Scientific American

MARCH 18, 2024

Leaders of the Department of Health and Human Services will meet throughout the spring and summer to help protect farm laborers from heat and wildfire smoke

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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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NRDC

MARCH 18, 2024

Forests have a major role to play in combating the climate crisis. However, this is not a problem we can solve by incentivizing more logging.

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Scientific American

MARCH 18, 2024

Our space and physics editors go head-to-head over a classic mind-bending question.

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The Applied Ecologist

MARCH 18, 2024

Shortlisted for the 2023 Southwood Prize Andrea Radici talks us through his team’s development of a comprehensive metapopulation framework, which provides a tool for assessing area-based management measures aimed at improving fisheries outcomes and describing the spatial distribution of costs and benefits. This can help guide effective spatially-distributed management.

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Scientific American

MARCH 18, 2024

Children need patient adults and lots of practice to understand fairness, justice and equality

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

As a matter of first impression, in Cheapside Mins., Ltd. v. Devon Energy Prod. Co., L.P. , No. 23-40591, 2024 WL 886951 (5th Cir. Mar. 1, 2024), the Fifth Circuit held that an oil-and-gas royalties class action belongs in federal court based on its interpretation that the “principal injuries” prong of the CAFA local controversy exception requires all plaintiffs sustain their principal injuries in the forum state.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2024

Grunwell, J. R., Mutic, A. D., Ezhuthachan, I. D., Mason, C., Tidwell, M., Caldwell, C., Norwood, J., Zack, S., Jordan, N., & Fitzpatrick, A. M. (2024). “Environmental injustice is associated with poorer asthma outcomes in school-age children with asthma in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia.” The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, S2213219824001715.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

On March 11, 2024, Liskow lawyers Kathryn Gonski and Melanie Derefinko secured the denial of a motion to remand on improper joinder grounds and the dismissal of an intentional tort claim against Methanex, a major Louisiana plant owner, in Knight v. Turner Industries Group, L.L.C., et al. , No. 23-469 (M.D. La.). The court’s rulings confirmed that conclusory allegations of intentional tort against an employer will not suffice to prevent the removal of an otherwise diverse action, nor can such al

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2024

Hofmann, V., Kalluri, P. R., Jurafsky, D., & King, S. (2024). Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people’s character, employability, and criminality (arXiv:2403.00742). arXiv. [link] Abstract Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2024 session of the Washington State Legislature has wrapped up, and at The Nature Conservancy in Washington we are celebrating new investments in the transition to a clean energy economy and a climate-resilient future for all Washingtonians. A vast majority of these investments were funded by the state’s landmark climate policy, the Climate Commitment Act (CCA).

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2024

Nasr, N. (Ed.). (2024). Technology Innovation for the Circular Economy: Recycling, Remanufacturing, Design, Systems Analysis and Logistics (1st ed.). Wiley. Buy it on Bookshop (affiliate link) Book description Some of the greatest opportunities for innovation in the circular economy are in remanufacturing, refurbishment, reuse, and recycling.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

Many of us remember watching “Schoolhouse Rock” as a kid and learning how a bill becomes law. But what does that process really look like—particularly when it comes to the bills that fund the US government? Congress recently wrapped up funding parts of the government for fiscal year 2024 (FY24). which began in October 2023. Yes, that’s correct—it’s taken the Senate and House of Representatives nearly six months since their official deadline to finish drafting appropriations bills, voting o

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2024

Read the full story from Drawdown Georgia. Energy-efficient retrofits are an important climate solution for Georgia. Why? Buildings use electricity and natural gas for heating, cooling, ventilating, water heating, lighting, and to power appliances and electronic devices. Up to 30% of greenhouse gasses globally come from these sources.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2024

Across the globe, countries are developing new labelling systems to identify what can qualify as a “sustainable investment.” This is done through a system known as a taxonomy, whereby labels would make it easier for investors to know which investments are good for the climate In 2021, the Government of Canada decided to start creating its own system, and it made an advisory council to help.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2024

Hammad, O., Rahman, M. R., Clements, N., Mishra, S., Miller, S., & Sullivan, E. (2024). PureNav: A Personalized Navigation Service for Environmental Justice Communities Impacted by Planned Disruptions (arXiv:2402.11180). arXiv.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2024

Across the globe, countries are developing new labelling systems to identify what can qualify as a “sustainable investment.” This is done through a system known as a taxonomy, whereby labels would make it easier for investors to know which investments are good for the climate In 2021, the Government of Canada decided to start creating its own system, and it made an advisory council to help.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2024

Rosenboom, J.-G., Langer, R., & Traverso, G. (2022). “Bioplastics for a circular economy.” Nature Reviews Materials, 7(2), 117–137.

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Scientific American

MARCH 18, 2024

Biden is calling on Congress for an additional $8 billion in funding for the American Climate Corps program

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MARCH 18, 2024

Read the full story from The Manufacturer. As the food and beverage (F&B) industry grows, so too does its energy demands. And with all eyes now firmly fixed on ESG, F&B manufacturers need to take proactive steps to minimise their impact on the planet.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

Tiehm’s buckwheat photo by Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity A couple hundred miles north of the Las Vegas strip at Rhyolite Ridge you’ll find a dusty yellow wildflower called Tiehm’s buckwheat that grows nowhere else in the world. But this flower sits atop a massive, untapped lithium reserve that would help the U.S. transition to cleaner energy.

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