Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Heres a taste, from US projects, technologies, electrons, and investment, to happenings in the world as a whole. Overall, solar was one of the top targets for investment in 2024 in clean technology manufacturing and deployment. As it turns out, 2024 has provided a whole lot of clean energy progress as fodder for that stock-taking.

Clean Energy 279

Clean Energy 2024 Wind Power Renewable Energy 279

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The PA Association of Environmental Professionals will host a March 18 webinar providing an overview of emerging PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' treatment technologies starting at Noon. The material will include the development state of each technology and some of the advantages and challenges for each.

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Earthava

MAY 12, 2025

The post 7 Innovative Eco-friendly Technologies for Sustainable Living appeared first on Earthava. Looking to reduce your carbon footprint while upgrading your home? You’re not alone. Nearly half of consumers now prioritize sustainability when shopping, and the right tools can make a big difference.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On February 25, the Department of Environmental Protection posted environmental testing results from the SPS Technologies fire in Montgomery County online today. SPS Technologies is a manufacturing company that produces fasteners and other materials for the aviation industry. Visit DEPs SPS Technologies webpage for more information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

over the existing technology. Reusing depleted oil and gas wells would allow operators to access geothermal heat in hot rock formations underground, eliminating upfront costs of drilling new wells and potentially making the technology more appealing to industry, the scientists said.

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Technology Technology Renewable Energy Clean Energy 68

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2025

On May 15, Avonlea Lithium , a subsidiary of Avonlea Environmental Technologies, announced the success of its Advanced Chemical Cavitation Extraction of Lithium (ACCELi) Cavitek pilot plant in Springville, Susquehanna County to extract lithium from oil and gas wastewater.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

The rapid advances in wind turbine, solar panel, and battery technology in recent years mean that generation no longer needs to be confined to large, centralized power plants connected to transmission lines far from where energy is used. How is the grid changing? Data source: U.S. Energy Information Agency. Make this plot yourself.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

By examining possible trajectories for global economic development, technology adoption, and policy actions, the driving forces behind emissions, these scenarios help us assess a range of potential climate futures. levels of cooperation or competition among countries, technology adoption, and inequality) in terms of radiative forcing.

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Radiation Sea Level Climate Change Fossil Fuels 219

Environmental News Bits

MAY 13, 2025

Developing a Circular Economy for Electronic Waste in the United States: Policy, Technology, and Market Considerations. International Journal of Research, 12(2), 540546.

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New Scientist

MAY 12, 2025

Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous technologies. Their success comes as China needs uranium to fuel its unprecedented nuclear expansion

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2025

Life cycle environmental impact and economic analysis of post-combustion carbon capture technologies in supercritical coal-fired power plants. Wang, X., & Gao, X. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 114, 107933.

Technology 52

Technology Technology 2025 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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Nuclear Power Electricity Clean Energy Technology 227

Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

Achieving these goals will take innovation —the development, application, diffusion, and utilization of new technologies and management practices. Water innovation can involve new treatment, reuse, and resource recovery technologies, including technologies that incorporate natural infrastructure. municipal wastewater sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

Climate Change 147

Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Technology Technology 147

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 1, 2023

Global technology company Siemens predicts that the market for wireless EV charging in Europe and North America will reach $2 billion by 2028. The post Expect $264B of Investment in Electric Vehicle Charging by 2030 appeared first on Environment+Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 24, 2022

The IoT, or internet of things sector describes physical objects embedded with technology such as sensors, computers, and software that allow data about them to be collected and communicated. The post IoT in Smart Cities Market To More Than Double By 2026, Says MarketsandMarkets appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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2026 Technology Technology 363

Yale E360

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe. Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. Read more on E360 →

Fossil Fuels 363

Fossil Fuels Technology Technology 363

Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossil fuels are much more recent. Persian experts were sent by Genghis Khan to establish the technology in China.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Technology Technology 264

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 12, 2023

The company's cloud-based smarty city technology will help Atlanta's Department of Public Works implement sustainable operations for its existing fleet.

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Technology Technology Recycling Waste 336

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

The Great Lakes ground zero for data center growth With artificial intelligence and the demand for cloud computing set to grow in the years and decades ahead, technology companies are increasingly eying up the Great Lakes regions comparatively cooler climate and ample water resources. There are so many things we are concerned about.

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Cooling Technology Technology 2024 170

Yale E360

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Now, companies hope to extract lithium — a key metal for electric vehicle batteries — from its underground brines using technologies they say could reduce mining’s carbon emissions and water use. The Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas was once a major oil producer. Read more on E360 →

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Carbon Emissions Electricity Technology Technology 346

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For more than 50 years, we have pioneered new policies and ushered in new technologies to clean our air and protect our climate. Meanwhile, CARB staff is proposing several amendments that will update the program without undermining its fundamental features. The Board should adopt these proposals. But it’s never easy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

There is little current, detailed information available about how even a limited nuclear war could affect social and economic systems, including how damage to industry, energy production, and financial systems would affect human well-being and what subsequent migration, conflict, and disease would result.

Radiation 351

Radiation Atmosphere Climate Change 2023 351

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 25, 2023

When Dow and X-energy inked an agreement to develop an advanced nuclear reactor at one of Dow’s sites along the Gulf Coast, it was a big deal – a technology the two will license to other industrial customers.

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Technology Technology 325

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, the current approach is neither technology agnostic nor does it reflect that Ontarios peak demand is a maximum of six hours in any 24-hour cycle in both winter and summer.

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Renewable Energy Natural Gas Government Technology 140

Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 5, 2023

Building on multibillion-dollar capital investments in decarbonization projects, ADNOC is collaborating with international partners and stakeholders throughout the energy value chain on technology, best practices, and policy to support and advance global decarbonization operations.

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Technology Technology 323

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

Just like short-duration energy storage, long-duration energy storage technologies come in many forms and chemistries. Because long-duration energy storage is gaining a lot of recent attention , the landscape of technologies is constantly changing. There are tradeoffs with different technologies. Yes and no.

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Renewable Energy Clean Energy Technology Technology 278

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You don’t have to look beyond the front pages of newspapers , or beyond rooftops in your neighborhood to know that we are in the midst of a clean energy revolution, with renewable energy technologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability.

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Law Renewable Energy Clean Energy Fossil Fuels 325

Yale E360

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Both technologies are set for record growth, helping to hasten the decline of coal power. Solar panels and batteries will account for more than 80 percent of new power capacity installed in the U.S. this year, officials say. Read more on E360

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Technology Technology 266

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But solar’s growth, especially in large arrays, has made it much more visible in communities and landscapes across the country, sparking a lot of conversations about land use, technology options, community engagement, and how best to site the many more megawatts of solar we need.

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Solar Power Fossil Fuels Electricity Technology 317

Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

Meanwhile, advances in satellite technology alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning will continue to improve detection accuracy and coverage. Just as essential to expanding data collection are efforts to broaden data access.

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Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Regulations Government 130

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

Two postscripts: first, California can take justifiable pride in its national and world technological leadership in many other fields. So it’s both ironic and disturbing that modern computer and satellite technologies have not been comprehensively deployed when it comes to California water monitoring and reporting.

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Technology Technology Environmental Science Law 289

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Not only does this contradict the Minister’s stated commitment to a “technology-agnostic” energy planning process, where the best and cheapest technology would win, but it also disregards the clear evidence that wind and solar are the most cost-effective sources of new electricity generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

In the rush to integrate artificial intelligence into the economy, fast-moving information technology companies are running into a problem: slow-moving electric utilities. In more ways than one, the electricity supply so vital to running a data center simply doesnt respond the way Silicon Valley and big investors want.

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Electricity Nuclear Power Technology Technology 257

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

China has become the dominant manufacturer of clean energy technologies. Chinese government support for manufacturing of clean technologies may be partly due to concern about climate change and urban air pollution. It’s going to take some serious effort to cut China’s emissions but growth in renewable energy should make that feasible.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.

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