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China, Climate, and Clean Energy

Legal Planet

China has become the dominant manufacturer of clean energy technologies. This is not an accident: the government poured $22 billion into the EV industry starting in 2009. Chinese government support for manufacturing of clean technologies may be partly due to concern about climate change and urban air pollution. auto sector.”

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California Climate Policy: A Preliminary Report Card

Legal Planet

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. For that reason, I’ve used 2009-2019 as my comparison period. What’s the Overall Verdict? The verdict on this issue seems very clear.

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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

Circle of Blue

In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. They irrigate 570,000 acres, or roughly 100,000 acres more than in 2009, according to state figures. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009.

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Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science

Environmental News Bits

.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 77 (4) 56A-59A; DOI: [link] Abstract: The sustainability challenges facing US agriculture now are more complex and challenging than the technological and productivity challenges of the previous century (Batie 2009).

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Comparing the Risks of Climate Change and Geoengineering

Legal Planet

Last month’s report on solar geoengineering research from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consolidated a shift in the discourse on this controversial technology. But to security experts, and students of political science, geoengineering appears as a hybrid, dual-use security technology.

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Magnetic oxides for water oxidation: magnetization, pinning effect and pH dependence

Physics World

Zhichuan Xu is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Xu worked as a research associate at the State University of New York at Binghamton from 2007–2009, followed by a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009–2012). Join the audience.

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US-China quantum rivalry creates harmful barriers to progress

Physics World

At the entrance to the quantum physics and information lab at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the country’s premier quantum research centre , visitors are greeted by a message in Chinese: “When I look back on my life, there were many hardships.