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The IRA Made Huge Climate Investments in Rural Areas. Now, the Food and Farm Bill Must Maintain Them.

Union of Concerned Scientists

With the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events—and related increasing interest in the insurance program—the costs of that program from less than $3 billion in 2002 to more than $19 billion in 2022. The old adage about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is apt here.

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$402,021 Awarded By DEP To Support Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone Projects

PA Environment Daily

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 12 (In-Person), Dec.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. A negative CI score would suggest an almost magical climate solution that pulls several carbon dioxide molecules from the atmosphere for each one that comes from the tailpipe of a truck running on dairy biomethane.

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Gregory L. Ebel: The Pipeline Pusher

Enviromental Defense

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. They have also advocated for this to the US government.

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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

Physics World

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. This meant that these neutrinos – created when cosmic rays interact with nuclei in the upper atmosphere – were changing flavour as they passed through the Earth. Neutrino pionner: Takaaki Kajita (Courtesy: ICRR).

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars. million gas cars.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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