Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Fortunately, solutions like energy storage and clean energy technologies can provide safe, reliable, and equitable power during severe weather conditions. There are promising programs already putting this solution in motion. It’s critical that both large-scale and household-level solutions are implemented with a mind toward equity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

As a quick aside though, storage will play an important role in supporting California’s solar buildout, helping address curtailment and redirecting the electricity to when it’s more needed.) As you’ve probably heard many, many times, when it comes to climate solutions and clean energy, there’s no silver bullet.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2023

MAR promotes infiltration using natural or engineered infrastructure and available water, thereby improving water balance. In this way, ReNeM addresses some of the political challenges and transaction costs that can hinder other forms of groundwater management. Groundwater overdraft demands creative, cooperative solutions like ReNeM.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

CEJA also sets out procurement requirements for clean energy by the Illinois Power Agency and funding for communities to build solar installations and make repairs and efficiency improvements in homes and buildings. For example, below are two screen shots of maps provided by PowerGEM.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

Addressing these emissions will be challenging and will require a multi-prong strategy. For distances under a few hundred miles, electrification offers the most promising solution. At least with present technology, electric batteries do not seem to be a viable solution for long-haul trucking.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

Bobby Payne, rewrite Florida energy policy to eliminate state goals to address the impacts of climate change and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as erase mentions of climate change. Now, there’s money for addressing problems with water quality , including Everglades restoration. Senate Bill 1624 , by Sen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2024

During the opening session today, the IPCC chair and a wide array of speakers outlined three important goals that set this assessment apart from past reports: A Leap Towards Inclusivity : The new assessment seeks to improve inclusivity in IPCC by engaging experts from the Global South, women, Indigenous voices, and early-career scientists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

Hydroeconomic modeling addresses research and policy questions from socioeconomic (people and money) and biophysical (water, climate, ecosystems) perspectives under a broad range of water-related topics (e.g., Addressing and integrating uncertainty is a crucial feature of water management. This is the field of hydroeconomic modeling.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

To understand and address the causes, for the past decade , we have examined barriers to and enablers of innovation in the water sector. These differences can impede regulatory approvals for innovative projects that, if implemented, would improve social and environmental outcomes. However, the pace of innovation has been slow.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Ashish Sharma , climate and urban sustainability lead for the Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois, will give the talk, “Climate Science to Actionable Urban Solutions,” at 4 p.m. Monday, April 22, via Zoom. “In

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment (Berkeley), Offers pragmatic, creative policy solutions to critical environmental and energy challenges, with a focus on climate change and the energy transition, Center on Environment, Land, and Law (Loyola of New Orleans). Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (UCLA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today, Representative Hank Johnson introduced federal transit operations funding legislation that could vastly improve transit across the country. It is crucial for the climate , promotes thriving economies , can help address the long history of fossil-fuel backed politicians and corporations leaving Black and brown folks stuck in place.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Inaugural addresses are not required but they are important. Inaugural addresses present governors and their states with the façade of a fresh start, a new beginning. While they may not offer policy specifics in their inaugural addresses, governors use them to lay out their vision and stake out their priorities. Rhode Island .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

In fact, shareholder resolutions can be an early-warning system to help corporations address issues of investor and public concern before they snowball into major problems. The company used Dr. Avery’s image in promoting its bogus net-zero solutions. What did Dr. Avery accomplish?

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the interim, the industry can take voluntary steps to address these issues and build support for CDR as a central pillar of the technological solutions to climate change. Reflecting an awareness of the importance of CDR as a climate solution, recent governmental actions seek to bolster the CDR industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

Further, many delegates, especially from the Global South, agreed that the IPCC needs to find ways to use a wider evidence base that better utilizes non-English language source material, and addresses the limited availability of observational data from many parts of the developing world.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

On April 26, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding visited Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Chester County, for a first-hand look at research measuring the effects of farming practices that are improving water quality and soil health. The field is part of a watershed-scale experiment on conservation agriculture. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2021

Last month, Miami appointed the country’s first Chief Heat Officer charged with addressing the impacts of extreme heat. The severity of extreme heat in places like South Florida and California’s Central Valley calls for comprehensive solutions and leadership, which is why Miami’s new position sets a highly valuable precedent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

. #3: We’re all part of the solution To our solidarity with an exceptional array of partners—as of course, no one organization alone can affect the solutions we need!—we Photo credit: Sanjali De Silva/UCS Because the climate crisis affects everyone in the world, we are all part of its solutions.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

The report’s diagnosis is stark—the window to address climate change is narrowing, and more quickly than we realized. Governments need to deploy mitigation actions rapidly to address the scale and urgency of the crisis, and must implement a diverse portfolio of actions to tackle emissions from different sectors. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

These investments will bring more clean energy online, improve grid resiliency, and deliver significant consumer benefits and jobs. As Illinoisans face higher prices due to a power supply crunch and increased risks of controlled blackouts, cost-saving grid improvements can’t come soon enough. million homes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

And throughout the year, in addition to working for fair elections and watchdogging attempts to subvert our democracy, we’ll be pushing the administration to finalize and enforce strong rules to reduce pollution, improve public health , and do its part to fight the escalating risk of climate change.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It defines a Big Lift as: a multidecade mega-project that seeks to improve the city to align with its climate and equity goals. Building a resilient coastline through improved governance. If the very purpose of the project is to address the most pressing environmental issue of our time, a different paradigm is warranted.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Together, these community-driven projects will improve the health, equity, and resilience of communities while setting a blueprint for local solutions that can be applied across the nation.” To learn more, visit EPA’s Environmental Justice webpage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

The costs of clean energy resources like wind and solar energy and battery storage have dropped dramatically over the last decade even as their performance has improved tremendously. Of course, every clean energy resource has room for improvement in terms of technical innovation. That is far too infrequently the case today.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

Join the webinar to explore how forestry can offer practical solutions to address the challenges faced by individuals and neighborhoods in our community. Various types of exposure become evident within community functions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 15, 2022

Each of these subtypes requires different approaches to reduce risk, build resilience, adapt and prepare for future events, and implement effective policy solutions. The concept of multiform flood and related emergency preparations would have been useful in that situation, as well as in various other events around the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2024

ML: Our policy team has taken a deep dive into election administration rules and procedures in five states—Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—to understand specific challenges and solutions for ensuring election integrity. All have been shown to reduce errors and improve ballot completion rates.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

This blog presents the state of the drought in the Western US and some solutions that must be carried out on a large scale to lessen its impacts and increase resilience. . Any solution must be developed to reduce the equity gap that exists between the most vulnerable and under-resourced communities and the rest of the population.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2019, TNC collaborated with the Puget Sound Partnership on the Water 100 Project , a combined effort between scientists, engineers, and conservationists to address the urgent challenges of pollution, development, and climate change in Sound. Each solution was turned into a pilot project to see how it benefited the watershed.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

LSGI projects, operating at larger scale, use natural processes like floodplain connections, infiltration to groundwater, and the benefits of vegetation to route, slow, and clean water on its way to creeks, streams and rivers, reducing flood risk, improving water quality, and augmenting habitat.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial. Benefits of NBS The beauty of NBS is threefold.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

In a significant stride toward implementing scalable climate solutions, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have uncovered how some carbon capture materials have improved lifetime compared to others. These materials are key in addressing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming concerns.

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Frontiers

JUNE 5, 2023

This year’s Frontiers Forum Live brought top researchers, innovators, and influencers together in-person and virtually, united in a common mission to accelerate the global transition to open science and mobilize solutions for critical challenges – with the most urgent being to reach net-zero carbon to prevent climate disaster.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

African has improved its record of economic growth in recent decades, which may provide the some of the resources needed to address these problems. Science can also help with improvements in plant breeds. They will have to be part of any climate solution, and making their societies more resilient should be a global priority.

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Frontiers

MARCH 20, 2023

~ Experts gather in Montreux to chart a course toward sustainable future ~ World-renowned scientists and thought leaders will gather next month at the Frontiers Forum Live in Montreux, Switzerland, to address critical issues including the climate crisis, improving global health and well-being, and preserving biodiversity.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Each one of them will improve not just the local environment where the projects are located, but the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem downstream by removing runoff pollution, cleaning up streams and rivers, and planting native trees and grasses. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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