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Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

A Greener Life

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. It is made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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Algorithm Helps Unlock Connections Between Stream Chemistry, Environment At NSF Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory In State College

PA Environment Daily

In a study, the researchers report on the novel application of a machine learning algorithm to analyze how the chemical makeup of streams changes over time, particularly focusing on the fluctuations of carbon dioxide in the delicate and complex stream chemistry.

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Unraveling LA’s Hydrogen Combustion Experiment

Legal Planet

Because of this, a 30% hydrogen mix by volume delivers only a 10% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that is up to 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a ten-year period.

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FRESH, June 28, 2022: Wisconsin Adopts PFAS Regulation

Circle of Blue

State Republicans initially opposed the measure, citing the multi-million dollar price tag for wastewater treatment and the paper mill industry. The case before the court challenges Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Water from private wells remains unregulated.

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Space for all: here are some of the huge commercial opportunities away from Earth

Physics World

Sent up by universities, governments and start-ups, they do everything from monitoring deforestation to tracking radio-tagged endangered animals. Bezos’s Blue Origin’s rockets are already powered by a mix of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which emit little or no carbon dioxide when burned.

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Bay Journal: PA Conventional Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned, Left Unplugged

PA Environment Daily

Abandoned gas wells have become a massive financial and environmental problem in Pennsylvania and have received more recent scrutiny because methane emissions are 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide for their potential contribution to global warming over a 20-year period. There are about 100,000 active oil and gas wells in state.

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The limits of adaptation

Science Blogs

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. The limits of adaptation. If you think the country is polarized now, just wait a few years. Categories.