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New State Bill Targets Pollution from Aggregate Facilities

Legal Planet

SCAQMDs Rule 1157, PM10 Emissions from Aggregate and Related Operations, has not been updated since 2006 and permits aggregate facilities to maintain giant piles of crushed debris as close as 301 feet from homes without any restriction on height or size. These common-sense measures draw on already available technology and solutions.

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Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods

Circle of Blue

Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homeland,” she told Circle of Blue in 2006.

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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

school of sustainability in 2006. At present, we do not have central, strategically focused coordinating structures and mechanisms for developing education, research, technology and policy hubs linked to climate. As a result, I’m limited to some impressionistic observations. Arizona State University launched the first U.S.

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Molecular engineering of photoinduced charge separation

Physics World

He received the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Prize (2006), CSJ (Chemical Society of Japan) Award for Creative Work (2006), Osaka Science Prize (2007), NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) Researcher Award (2007) and was named fellow of The Electrochemical Society (2016).

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Hydrogen’s big shot: where we are and where we are going

Physics World

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019). Prior to joining NREL, he led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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The Energy Transition in the Built Environment – Towards Positive Energy Districts

Energy and Climate Law

Next to the technological aspects of energy and (electric) transportation, another aspect is rather social in nature: awareness and community-building within the district. Even though the technologies developed in this project may be ready to test in practice, the regulatory framework also needs to be ready for it.

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Injusticia ambiental en Puerto Rico debido a los elevados riesgos cancerígenos y mutagénicos del óxido de etileno

Union of Concerned Scientists

Siete de las 104 esterilizadoras que emiten óxido de etileno están localizadas en Puerto Rico: Customed (Fajardo) Edwards Lifesciences Technology (Añasco) Guidant Puerto Rico, también conocida como Boston Scientific (Dorado) Medtronic (Juncos) Medtronic (Villalba) Steri-Tech (Salinas) St.

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