Scientific American

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Science might be redefining what “life out there” might really mean.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Smart Coincident Peak Management and other tactics are changing the way people think about 4CP. 4CP can be an unpleasant surprise for many Texas companies, but new approaches are helping some to take control of their demand charges. The post 4 Ways to Deal with 4CP appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Thirty-three of these days have been over 95°F (versus about 7 days historically), and 16 have been over 100°F (versus about 1 day historically). Since mid-November, 60 out of the last 90 days have had a maximum temperature over 90°F (versus 24 days historically).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Map of diesel particulate pollution in Maryland ( Kevin Shen/UCS ) Climate change in Maryland is no joke either Sometimes when I’m frustrated about climate legislation that isn’t moving forward fast enough in Annapolis I think about how ironic it is that more and more frequently , floodwaters will be knocking on legislators’ doors.

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The Applied Ecologist

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Although concerns about the billion-dollar global pet trade industry have usually focused on issues associated with the trade of endangered species, the pet trade also …

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Did you hear about the recent leak from Imperial Oil’s tailings “pond” in Alberta? For years, Indigenous communities have raised concerns about the tailings leaking, and a report by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation published in 2020 corroborated their worries.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

What about your town centre? Projects like this aren’t just about eye candy. They’re about demonstrating how things could be. Possible proved this in London, where 49% of residents supported the pedestrianisation of Hyde Park corner when first asked about it. By Jeremy Williams Can you imagine your street with fewer cars?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- WeConservePA: Where Is The Love (For Environmental Ed)? - Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Posted: February 19, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These companies continue to extract more fossil fuels from the ground, lobby for their interests, deceive and misinform the public about climate change, and build new infrastructure to lock us into this continual cycle of extraction, combustion, and the dire consequences it brings. They need to be held accountable for these actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Lies, blowing in the wind Today, fossil fuel companies remain the common enemy because they are bankrolling the offshore wind opposition and spreading misinformation about whales, Right Whales, and wind infrastructure. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When a company fails to plug a well, the responsibility falls to the DEP — taxpayers — at a cost of about $30,000 a well. The 3,000 newly abandoned wells add to the existing inventory of about 200,000 unplugged conventional wells statewide. That provides an incentive for abandonment rather than obeying the law.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As well, lobbying about the enforcement of a law or regulation, or about tax credits, which many oil and gas companies lobby for, is not required to be disclosed.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of … Continue reading The ocean twilight zone could store vast amounts of carbon captured from the atmosphere – but first we need an internet of deep ocean sensors to track the effects

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Prescient, Bob Willard describes in this book the business case for working from home and telecommutting eight years before COVID 19, talks about the war for talent and how to retain employees thru corporate social responsability and so on, all while delivering plenty of facts and figures.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This is welcome news to those CEQA practitioners who had substantial qualms about the decision creating new and burdensome procedural requirements in conflict with well-established CEQA law, as explained more fully in my prior posts and materials attached to them.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

While concern about PFAS compounds, also known as “forever chemicals” because they break down very slowly, has largely focused on people, the pollutants have also been detected in … Continue reading How widespread are these toxic chemicals? Read the full story in the New York Times. Cardinals in Atlanta and crocodiles in South Africa.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

engaged faculty about the future of environmental health sciences during a visit to the HERCULES Exposome Research Center Jan. Read the full story at Environmental Factor. NIEHS Director Rick Woychik, Ph.D., The focus: overcoming challenges in making exposome research and precision environmental health mainstream.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Biden administration is about to undertake one of its most complicated international initiatives, installing a new leader at the World Bank who can steer the organization toward a sweeping climate change agenda. Read the full story at Politico.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE (environmentaldefence.ca): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities. –

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2023 International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) Planning Team of the Illinois Food Scrap & Composting Coalition invites public and institutional libraries throughout Illinois to join in efforts to raise awareness about the importance of composting.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Join the PA Organization for Watersheds and Rivers (POWR) and your watershed colleagues for one or both sessions of a two-part conversation about the benefits, challenges, and opportunities for creating green parking lots in your community Across Pennsylvania, parking cover thousands of acres with impervious asphalt, contributing to the urban heat (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Here are 50 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 23; Transportation- Feb.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Visit the Lewis Latimer House Museum website to watch an engaging short video, learn more about his legacy, and see how you can help encourage underrepresented groups to get more involved in engineering and technology. This year is the 175 th anniversary of the birth of Lewis Latimer.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Methods: Briefly mention how you carried out the research, without going into too much detail about the methodologies. Background: Introduce the study’s background and context; what is already known and what isn’t? Outline the aim of the study, based on this background information.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Visit DEP’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed webpage to learn more about cleaning up rivers and streams in Pennsylvania's portion of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. CBF has over 275,000 members in Bay Watershed. How Clean Is Your Stream? Check DEP’s 2022 Water Quality Report to find out how clean streams are near you.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Renwand Retires After 27 Years Of Service; Steven Beckman Named Chief Judge; Sarah Clark Added To Board DCNR Awards $290,734 In Wild Resource Conservation Program Grants PA Parks & Forests Foundation Penn's Stewards Spring Newsletter Now Available; Interview With Bill Forrey Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Click Here for more from the December DEP Conventional Oil and Gas Compliance Report.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Visit DCNR’s Resources For Volunteer Fire Departments webpage for more information about the Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) grants. To expedite applications and decision-making processes, DCNR is accepting only online applications. Visit Explore PA Trails and Get Outdoors PA for recreation areas near you.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Distinguishing CBAs from “ordinary” contracts, the court explained that “doubts about the scope of an arbitration clause in a CBA ' should be resolved in favor of coverage.'” It cited testimony from the plaintiffs that knowing about the alleged defect would have affected their decision to buy a class vehicle.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Yaw: ‘We Can Deal With Regulations, What We Can’t Deal With Are Delays’ -- EnergyWire: Energy Companies Are Racing To Build New Energy Infrastructure-- LNG Terminals, Pipelines-- Before Federal Regulations Are Updated -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh-based EQT - Sharp Drop In Price Of Natural Gas Could Lead To Industry Cutting Back On Drilling (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

That’s bad news for most Pennsylvanians.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

After finishing my data collection, I am left with much more knowledge about how animal farming affects nitrogen emissions. The introverted party-goers, CH 4 and N 2 O, are less prone to interact with other molecules, but they do interact with radiation, which has a great impact on the Earth’s climate.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The 2010 PEIR made numerous assumptions about existing conditions and how future development would proceed in the IBC; divided the IBC into about 150 Traffic Analysis Zones; and developed a land use mix and analyzed environmental impacts for each zone based on the mix.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. For example, about 930 GW of wind and solar capacity and 420 GW of storage projects are now awaiting approval to connect to the transmission system, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Terms such as “ doomscrolling ” (Hernández, 2022) became commonplace in conversations sharing about the day. We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Doomscrolling” Illustration by Madeline McMahon.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Even many researching the science or politics of geoengineering are deeply cautious about whether its deployment could ever be justified. The average person’s reaction to learning about solar geoengineering is crudely, to see it as ‘stupid’ and possibly ‘evil’. I would hope all climate scholars could support these goals.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As a copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota gains traction with a key partnership, environmentalists worry about the region’s water. We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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