Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

A month later, more than 100 advocacy and labor organizations sent a letter to the leaders of both the House and Senate agriculture committees recommending nearly three dozen provisions (called “marker bills”) for the farm bill that would make the US food and agriculture system more sustainable, resilient, and fair.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers recent heatwaves in India and Pakistan and the reason some homes in Australia may become “uninsurable.” Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. It’s not sustainable.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This post will follow the wind turbine blade from “cradle-to-grave,” then explore solutions for a more responsible, sustainable life cycle. To learn about the current lifecycle and a more sustainable solution for the rare earth elements in wind turbine generators, read How Are Wind Turbines Made? Blade materials are special.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

What are the financial risks associated with climate change? For instance, mortgages are connected to homes, while fossil fuel finance is tied to infrastructure like pipelines, oil wells, and the reserves still in the ground. Up to $4 trillion of fossil fuel assets are at risk of being stranded, with $100bn at risk in Canada by 2036.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In our many sustainability and energy transitions, the electricity one is the most talked about and the easiest to do. What is desperately needed is actually slashing energy use in G20 nations to accelerate our much needed energy transition. Renewables need to replace fossil fuels. Well, the future is now, and none too soon.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. This is not to say that advertising sustainability by institutions is wrong, but it becomes a problem when looking sustainable pays more than genuinely being sustainable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When a change as big as this is underway, it’s important to understand what impact it can have on employment and to take steps to ensure that workers benefit from the transition and aren’t left behind. But what is the outlook for jobs in an electric transportation future? That’s why UCS stands in solidarity with UAW.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

The CDC surveys O’ahu residents for health problems after a jet fuel spill that contaminated drinking water. The USGS assesses groundwater levels in a New Mexico basin that has been the target of water exporters. News Briefs. Health Problems from Fuel Spill on O’ahu. Officials sign a Navajo-Utah water rights settlement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Disinformation dulls urgency Climate change denial and skepticism is a key feature of the deep political divide in this nation, fueled by long-running and coordinated campaigns of disinformation , often funded by fossil fuel interests. This has got nothing to do with climate.This is not because of fossil fuels.”

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pollution and climate change in India’s Ladakh region are jeopardizing local shepherds’ long-standing, sustainable ways of life. Researchers and tribes in Alaska have observed local waterways turn rust-orange and acidic, High Country News reports. More Water News. On the Radar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

There is not enough water in California to sustain our current practices and everybody knows it. So far, all proposals to achieve water sustainability and overcome this mismatch in water supply and demand cannot be accomplished without incurring substantial economic and employment losses for the agricultural sector.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

After reading the recent (and very dumb) New York Times expose by Matt Richtel on e-bikes , you’d be forgiven for mistaking electric-assist bicycles for the next big threat to human health. But 3 other news stories about the benefits, and growing pains, of e-bikes show there’s real interest in them as a climate solution.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% from other sources. Read more here. Read more here. “I Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Sustainable FERC Project. What customers see when the grid is strained If you are located in the state of California, chances are you’ve received via email or text, or seen on the news report or highway billboard, what’s called a Flex Alert.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals. We’re risking more impacts from climate change due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 15, 2023

Refresh A Great Lakes News Collaborative series investigating the region’s water pollution challenges. It’s one of many projects to help sustain the whitefish population. It’s not worth the fuel to take the boats out. But in the meantime, we’re going to do what we can to try and abate this problem.”

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

New research published with Frontiers has calculated what impact ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ (SAF) will have, showing CO2 emissions between 4% and 23% lower than if no SAF was used, even if airlines exceed pre-Covid-19 demand.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2024

Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Announces Mimi Joy Cooper As Recycling Coordinator CleanWater Conservancy: Volunteers Needed For 28th Annual Watershed Cleanup Day April 20 In Centre County Allegheny County Conservation District Offering Gardeners Free Soil Lead Screening PA Resources Council Launches New What's Up Watershed?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Billion In Federal Funding Up For Grabs, PA Environmental Officials Collect Climate Action Plan Suggestions -- Herald-Star: Tenaska Outlines Carbon Capture, Storage Project In Shale Gas Formations In SW PA, Southern Ohio -- PA GreenGov Council, Penn State Sustainability Host 4-Part Sustainability Webinar Series Starting Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

formal notice ) SATURDAY: Foundation For Sustainable Forests Loving The Land Through Working Forests Conference. Visit the Board webpage to see options for joining remotely. Contact: ​​Daniel E. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. Meadville, Crawford County SATURDAY: Watershed Alliance Of York: 21st Annual Watershed Week.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

18 [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PUC Commissioners Ask For Permanent Federal Low-Income Water, Wastewater Bill Assistance -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Woods & Water Film Series Jan. 17 [PaEN] -- NRCS-PA: Pennsylvania State Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Jan. 19 & Feb. 19 & Feb. 19 & Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

21 - Education & Volunteerism In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: Tu B’Shevat, A Jewish Holiday With An Environmental Twist, Begins Sunday - The New Year Of The Trees -- Register Now: PA Chapter American Water Works Assn. Solar Programs To Reduce Your Energy Costs [PaEN] -- WESA/Lehigh Valley News: Sen. 28 to Feb. 28 to Feb.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

I won’t be surprised if this is news to you. But it will also help protect species and will provide indigenous communities with vital resources that they have sustainably tended for thousands of years (thank you very much!). Will countries agree to make serious new cuts in their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Project Canary and other similar companies have been part of what’s called the differentiated gas market that is attempting to help define what “responsibly sourced” or low methane emission natural gas production is. We offer what's called our Trust Well rating, and we offer a low methane rating. So that's internal processes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

Extreme heat , winter storms , and flooding regularly remind us that the grid is struggling to keep up in the face of more climate change-fueled extreme weather. But what about fossil fuel resources, especially natural gas power plants ? Source: Sustainable FERC Project. Hope you’re ready for some acronyms!)

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Author: Rafa Tasnim Dr Rachel E Schattman is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture , where she leads a group of graduate students and staff scientists in the Agroecology Lab. I am somewhat embarrassed that I came to the idea so late!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2023

The increasingly untenable risks of climate change in many places have been highlighted by the recent news that State Farm and All State have stopped offering new homeowner’s insurance policies in the California market primarily due to growing costs of wildfires , and by the news of skyrocketing costs of flood insurance in Louisiana.

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Frontiers

JUNE 7, 2023

Image: Inês Hipólito What inspired you to become a researcher? Interacting with inspiring teachers and mentors during my education further fueled my motivation to explore the possibilities of objective understanding. As part of our Frontier Scientist series, Hipólito caught up with Frontiers to tell us about her career and research.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

To Address Flaring, Odor Issues -- Pittsburgh City Paper: Is Pittsburgh’s Weird Terrain Making The Already-Dodgy Air Quality Even Dodgier? -- UnionProgress.com: PA Turnpike Adding Solar Panels To New Stanton Office As Part Of Sustainability Effort -- Utility Dive: State Regulators - Including PA - Urge PJM To Speed Interconnection For New Generation (..)

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. Jeremy Wade Shockley for CPR News).

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Marine species have been swimming in these changing waters for years now, and we are starting to understand what that means for them. Coastal communities which engage in fishing are deeply dependent on a familiar ocean to sustain their way of life. In short, the ocean is becoming less familiar and its patterns less recognizable.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The three-day event includes inspiring keynotes, thought-provoking discussions, and exciting pitches from some of the most innovative minds in science and technology, exploring how scientific breakthroughs can pave the way towards a more equitable and sustainable future.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

(Photo by Liu Xin/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images) By C. Last August, in an amalgamation of ‘The Green New Deal’ meets ‘Build Back Better’, President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act gifted the renewables industry with billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded subsidies. What he discovered unnerved him.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

6 Webinar On New Model Ordinance To Mitigate The Environmental Impacts Of Warehouse Facilities [PaEN] -- Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts Sept. Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- We Remember Sept. 16 -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

April 10, Allegheny Courthouse, 4:00 p.m. -- Center For Climate Integrity: PA Municipalities Face $15 Billion In Costs By 2040 To Protect Infrastructure From Climate Change -- Delaware County Hosts 3rd Annual Sustainability Conference May 30 At Widener University [PaEN] -- Reading Eagle: Forested Land In Robeson Twp.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I often think back to being a kid in the nineties when saving the ozone was taught as a shining example of international cooperation fueling innovation. Where I see promise is in a return to what those before us already knew. I think this shift is the product of many factors — news media, definitely; science and advocacy, hopefully.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Guest Post by Jessa Ata , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. In for the hype The popular notion of trees as a means to solve global environmental problems has fueled the recent spike in tree planting initiatives and people’s interest in tree planting. So, what now? CIFOR Forests News. link] Rivera, R.

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