Environmental Leader

AUGUST 17, 2022

On its own, battery storage allows businesses to store energy when it’s cheapest and use that stored energy at the most expensive times; when combined with solar, battery storage helps companies meet corporate social responsibility and resilience goals while also managing costs. But though awareness is certainly on the rise, misconceptions about the technology still hold many companies back.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Despite the odd name (and greatly overused TLA ), the IRA contains a huge number of elements, totalling roughly $350 billion of investment, in climate solutions over the next ten years. This is an historic effort though it falls short of the broader ‘ Green New Deal ‘ goals that were proposed in 2019, and doesn’t include al

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atlantic Biomass signed a Letter of Intent with Bionoid signaling their joint commitment to producing commercial quantities of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) from residual hemp biomass. The post Two Companies Join Together to Produce Commercial Quantities of SAF from Hemp Biomass appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 19, 2022

German solar power is hitting new records this summer, and is set for further growth as the government enacts new policies to spur the expansion of renewable energy. Read more on E360 ?.

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

Production and combustion of fossil fuels imposes enormous costs on society, which the industry doesn’t pay for. I want to talk about some options for using the tax system to change that. One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2022

© J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. By Delaney Nelson, Circle of Blue – August 16, 2022. The American West is experiencing its most severe drought in 1,200 years. The consequences are far-reaching and long lasting. Forests become tinder boxes. Hydropower is weakened. Human health and wildlife are threatened. . Each week, Circle of Blue breaks down the biggest stories, the latest data, and the most promising solutions to the United States’ most urgent water crisis

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 15, 2022

We are in the thick of “ danger season ” (aka summer), that time of year when climate-related disasters such as droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods and hurricanes are more likely to happen. Not only that, but climate change has made many of these disasters more severe and more likely to occur. Just in 2022 we have seen flooding in the U.S. and across the world that can be characterized as multiform.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 16, 2022

A family in Minnesota wants to put crickets on your dinner plate. In the First Runner-Up in the 2022 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest, they explain how the insects are a high-protein food that can help reduce the massive emissions produced by livestock and large-scale farming. Read more on E360 ?.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Rundown. The House version of the historic bill retains $4 billion for western drought response. The EPA negotiates a timeline for mercury standards for rivers and lakes in Idaho. FEMA will soon open the application process for $2.3 billion in infrastructure resilience grants. Federal health agencies release a mapping tool to spotlight the unequal burdens of pollution.

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 19, 2022

The battery company also unveiled energy storage and management platforms as part of the new division. The post American Battery Solutions Launches Energy Storage Division 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 16, 2022

Over the past few weeks, wildfires and rain in California have drawn attention to the threat that increasingly large and severe wildfires pose to our vulnerable water resources. During the first week of August, intense rain on the burn scar of 2021’s Tamarack Fire led to a partial closure of Highway 89 and sent flowing mud and debris, like logs, rocks, and gravel , through the town of Markleeville, just south of Lake Tahoe.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 15, 2022

One of the world’s largest pumped hydropower projects, with an electricity storage capacity equivalent to 400,000 electric vehicles, is set to begin operations soon in the Swiss Alps. Read more on E360 ?.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers extreme heat and drought across Europe. Plus, Circle of Blue reports on the aftermath of catastrophic flooding in some of the poorest counties in the United States. Transcript. Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 19, 2022

In 2020, Xerox moved up its net-zero goals from 2050 to 2040. Moreover, it expanded its goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions to include Scope 3, which covers its supply chain. The post Xerox Takes Hacksaw to Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Waste Streams 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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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

As we’ve discussed before , multiple cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have tried to ban fossil fuel hookups for new buildings by zoning or other ordinance over the past few years. But in July 2020, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Municipal Law Unit struck down the first such ban that came across its desk as inconsistent with other state law.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

When Caltrans and other state and local agencies build or approve projects that increase car traffic, state law requires them to mitigate those impacts. A new report from CLEE proposes development of state and regional programs that would allow these agencies to mitigate by investing in offsite bike lanes, bus-only lanes, transit passes, and other measures to effectively and efficiently reduce a corresponding amount of vehicle miles traveled (VMT).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

The extreme heat and drought has dried up the typically lush grasses of London’s Greenwich Park. Photo from August 12, 2022. Photo © Alisdare Hickson / Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Wildfires are raging across France as the country suffers through its worst drought on record. . Climate adaptation is severely underfunded in Africa , according to a new report.

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Clean Energy Law

AUGUST 16, 2022

A major voluntary carbon standard invites comments on linking carbon credits with crypto instruments and tokens, highlighting emerging questions around blockchain transactions in voluntary carbon markets. By JP Brisson , Michael Dreibelbis , Brett Frazer , and Nick Eberhart. On August 3, 2022, Verra, a voluntary carbon standard, announced it was opening a public consultation process on its proposed approach to third-party crypto instruments and tokens. [1] The 60-day consultation began on August

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

On Friday, I posted about a decision invalidating BLM Resource Manage Plans for failure to comply with NEPA. My caption was “NEPA Is Still Going to Pose an Obstacle to Leasing Public Lands for Fossil Fuel Extraction.” Little did I know how prescient I was, because later on Friday, Judge Brian Morris – the same judge who invalidated the RMPs – went farther and reinstated the moratorium on leasing of public lands for coal mining that had been implemented by then-Secretary Jewell in 2016. .

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Frontiers

AUGUST 16, 2022

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Image: Shutterstock.com. Researchers show for the first time that honeybee foragers exposed to the pesticides sulfoxaflor and imidacloprid have an impaired optomotor response, which makes them poor at keeping themselves on a straight trajectory while moving. This impairment is accompanied by damage to brain cells and dysregulation of detoxification genes.

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The Applied Ecologist

AUGUST 16, 2022

Authors Erin Rowland-Schaefer and Elizabeth Bach describe their latest Data Article presenting a visual record of the long fire history of Nachusa Grasslands, a tallgrass prairie restoration site in Illinois, USA. Fire has played a significant role in the development and management of tallgrass prairie ecosystems since before European colonization.

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Environmental Leader

AUGUST 15, 2022

Hydrogen fuel cells and fuel cell generators will see significant increases through 2030, according to separate reports. The post Fuel Cell Markets Grow With Emphasis on Energy Efficiency appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Researchers at Yale School of Public Health found the incidence of disease was twice as likely for children who live a mile from a well. By Victoria St. Martin Children in Pennsylvania who grew up within roughly a mile of fracking wells are twice as likely as other young people to develop the most common form of juvenile leukemia, according to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 19, 2022

The PFAS Strategic Roadmap: DOE Commitments to Action 2022-2025 establishes and details the goals, objectives and steps that the Department of Energy is taking to address PFAS. Specifically, DOE commits to: Research current and past uses and known or potential releases of PFAS. Investigate PFAS concentrations in DOE-supplied drinking water and in the environment at … Continue reading PFAS Strategic Roadmap: DOE Commitments to Action 2022-2025.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 14, 2022

By Suzanna Burgelman, science writer. Image: Paul Abrahams/Shutterstock.com. Researchers have found that small mammal communities today are fundamentally different from even a few centuries ago, during North America’s pre-colonial past. They identified small mammal remains from the Anthropocene and archaeological Holocene along a geographical area with varying degrees of human impact and examined diversity across these sites and time periods.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 17, 2022

The textbook description of a proton says it contains three smaller particles - two up quarks and a down quark - but a new analysis has found strong evidence that it also holds a charm quark

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AUGUST 18, 2022

With New Jersey focused on local climate impacts in its new curriculum, the Palmyra Cove Nature Park combines wetlands, woods and shoreline with the technology required to understand them. By Daelin Brown When New Jersey became the first state in America to require climate change education in its primary schools two years ago, John Moore found himself ideally situated as a hands-on educator at the Palmyra Cove Nature Park on the Delaware River.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 18, 2022

Chatziparaskeva, G., Papamichael, I., Voukkali, I., Loizia, P., Sourkouni, G., Argirusis, C., & Zorpas, A. A. (2022). End-of-Life of Composite Materials in the Framework of the Circular Economy. Microplastics, 1(3), 377–392. [link] Abstract: Composite materials constitute an appealing choice in many industrial sectors, due to their unique composition and characteristics, such as low maintenance requirements, light weight, … Continue reading End-of-Life of Composite Materials in the Fra

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National Law Center

AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 9, 2022 the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), published a. The post Proposed Updates to the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices Rule appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy has some of the most extraordinary regions of star formation of any galaxy we’ve found, and the James Webb Space Telescope has snapped its picture

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lake Erie is a global treasure. The lake is home to thousands of species, complex ecosystems, and beautiful sights and vistas. It is also the source of drinking water for around 11 million people. We often talk about the problems plaguing Lake Erie, but behind all those facts and figures, we know there are deep personal connections to Lake Erie and that’s a huge part of what makes the lake so special.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 17, 2022

The State Climate Policy Dashboard is an information hub on the Climate XChange website that establishes a framework for state climate policy. It also tracks the status of and provides educational resources for each policy. It is comprised of two components: the State Climate Policy Tracker and the State Climate Policy Resource Hub. The State … Continue reading State Climate Policy Dashboard.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2022

On August 18, conventional oil and gas drillers on DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council passed a motion recommending DEP's acceptance of the Penn State study showing their drilling wastewater dumped on roads is bad for human health and the environment be rescinded and industry representatives by involved in rewriting the study. The goal of their rewrite is to incorporate all their criticisms of the report, however insubstantial, that would undermine its conclusions.

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