Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. These reports—from UN Climate Change , the UN Environment Program , the World Meteorological Organization , and the International Energy Agency —show that the current global trajectory of heat-trapping emissions is dangerously off-track, which potentially sets us up for catastrophic climate impacts.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Scientists have long warned that climate change and other threats will require relocating some endangered species outside their historic ranges. Now, U.S. officials are proposing rules that would enable them to use this new — and potentially controversial — conservation tool. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Two reports from S&P Global Ratings outline the progress concrete businesses can make, the financial impacts that could arise. The post European Cement Industry Faces Emissions Reductions Challenges appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. A surge of groundwater pumping by thirsty livestock, pecan, and pistachio farms has caused irrigation and homeowner wells to go dry in Cochise County, in southeast Arizona. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. 6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 28, 2022

To halt warming at 1.5 degrees C, countries must slash emissions from power plants, heavy industry, cars, trucks, agriculture, and forest loss, among other sectors. But in some key areas, according to a new report, the world is seeing emissions continue to rise. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. In contrast, in many states – and at the federal level – there’s no real mechanism for a comprehensive look at climate policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Next month, Egypt will host the United Nations’ 27th annual international climate negotiations, known as the Conference of the Parties, or in this case COP27. While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By tweeting real-time local pollution data in developing countries, U.S. embassies helped spur measurable improvements in air quality, a new study finds. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The system enhancement is part of a 2020 acquisition of Enviance. The post Cority Upgrades Waste Management Platform Enhancing Reporting, Tracking Abilities appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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Cleannovate

OCTOBER 28, 2022

There’s a silent movement. It’s gaining traction slowly but still growing in popularity. It’s a movement borne out of consciousness … More.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Earlier this month, EPA announced its proposed disapproval of San Joaquin Valley’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) submittal to address fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution. Among EPA’s reasons for proposing disapproval of the plan: The strategies to reduce building heating emissions—from things like water heaters and space heaters—were inadequate because they failed to consider zero-emission standards.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Global deforestation dropped by just 6.3 percent in 2021, leaving the world off track from its goals of ending forest loss by 2030 and limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C, according to a new report. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The automaker will achieve its goal 25 years ahead of its original target. The post GM Secures Enough Renewable Energy to Power US Facilities by 2025 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2022

October 25, 2022. Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday. — Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds. Enbridge will pay $11 million for water quality violations in northern Minnesota connected to its Line 3 oil pipeline project.

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Cleannovate

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I took a sip and I didn’t like it at all. The water was extremely hard. But fortunately, our company … More.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Greater daytime cloud cover may be shrinking the difference between daily high and low temperatures in parts of the world, new research suggests. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A survey of business executives by Deloitte shows confidence that measures at the climate conference can lead to success, while many are scaling down their own efforts. The post Ahead of COP27, Executives Positive on Sustainability Initiatives Despite Obstacles appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PBS Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With fewer than 120 known ocelots remaining in the United States, the stakes are high for their survival. Dive deep into South Texas to meet one of America’s most endangered cats in nature: the American Ocelot. American Ocelot chronicles the sad history, precarious present, and optimistic future for one of the country’s most endangered wild cats. Wildlife filmmaker Ben Masters documents these rare and elusive animals in South Texas while meeting with biologists, ranchers, and the cats themselves

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Cleannovate

OCTOBER 23, 2022

What comes to mind when we think ‘charcoal’? Cutting down of trees… Destruction… Illegal trade… Poverty… Dirty fuel… But what … More.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In recent years, the idea of climate change adaptation has received more and more attention and has become even more urgent with the unfolding of a number of extreme weather-related calamities. I wrote a piece on climate change adaptation last year here on RealClimate, and many of the issues that I pointed to then are still relevant. . The dire consequences of flooding, droughts and heatwaves that we have witnessed the last couple of years suggest that our society is not yet adapted even to the

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Today marks the commencement of commercial operations at the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota. The post Minnesota’s First Renewable Natural Gas Facility Now Operational appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By Matthew Eisenson. On September 21, 2022, the New York Times published an essay by Gabriel Popkin titled “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?” Popkin describes a recently approved 4,500-acre solar project in Virginia that will remove approximately 3,500 acres of forest and asks whether such projects could be sited instead on rooftops, parking lots, and other degraded land.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Swarms of western honeybees can generate an electric charge of 1000 volts per metre, a voltage density greater than thunderstorm clouds and electrified dust storms

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Be?chat?w power station in central Poland. Image credit: Pawel Brzozowski / Shutterstock.com. Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. Researchers show for the first time that this is already possible with data from existing satellites and instruments like NASA’s OCO-2 and OCO-3 (attached to the International Space Station

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Sustainability labels on the company's water bottles are misleading consumers, the filing says. The post Evian Faces Lawsuit Over Packaging’s Carbon Neutral Claims appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A multidisciplinary team of scientists will work with city officials and community groups to protect vulnerable residents and communities from extreme weather, flooding, urban heat islands and fossil fuel pollution. By Aman Azhar For a five-year period starting this month, a team of scientists will study how atmospheric, climatic and environmental factors interact across Baltimore and develop adaptation strategies to make the city climate-change resilient, and equitable.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Studies show it is always best to bake your sweet potatoes, rather than boil or microwave them, and there is another trick to take the tubers to the next level of deliciousness, says Sam Wong

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2022

An October 13 inspection by the Department of Environmental Protection again found multiple violations of the state Clean Streams Law and Solid Waste Management Act at the PA General Energy Shawnee water withdrawal and natural gas pipeline construction site on the Loyalsock Creek in Gamble Township, Lycoming County. DEP also found the company had blocked the entire width of Loyalsock Creek with a coffer dam and other construction activities without approval.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Google Cloud will launch three AI-powered sustainability applications combining the company's AssetCare platform with the power and reach of Google Cloud and additional services such as Google Earth Engine. The post Google Partnership to Provide AI-Powered Sustainability Apps appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Author: Thimedi Hetti. I had a pleasure of speaking with Aliyah Griffith , PhD student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill , about her journey into marine science, setbacks, and achievements. With the research shift more towards coral reef management, Aliyah is hoping to partner with Barbados to explore the techniques while also partnering with the American Museum of Natural History in New York to review some of the pieces from their 4000-piece coral fossil collection.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, they can survive the intense radiation that hits the Red Planet for hundreds of millions of years

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Capaccio

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Thanksgiving is a time for family, friends, and a whole lot of food. As you are planning your Thanksgiving feast this year, join us in giving thanks to our planet and making Thanksgiving 2022 a little more environmentally friendly. Let’s start some new holiday traditions this year. Here are some tips to do your part in helping to save the planet and have a more sustainable Thanksgiving!

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