Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 The AER has rubber-stamped the industry’s tailings clean-up plans for decades, despite these relying on unproven or dangerous technologies. Since 2014, the AER has only collected 71 cents from oil sands companies to pay for cleanup.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. Technological improvements have gone hand in hand with more clean energy in the generation mix, and with every passing year, theres more renewable energy coming online. The pace of change doubled and then doubled again.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. Construction began in 2014. But like most Cambodians, he is reluctant to criticize his government and its policies. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. The scientists who wrote the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report earlier this year warned that governments must act quickly to keep the 1.5 The technology to keep the planet under 1.5

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

In 2014, CAISO expanded the territory of its real-time market , through which utilities can buy small amounts of electricity to correct real-time fluctuations in customer demand and electricity dispatched by generators. These efforts are called the “ West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Agricultural methane policies, where they exist, tend to take predominantly three forms: regulation , cap – and – trade programs , and government incentive programs. Finally, governments can implement direct incentive programs which fund or otherwise facilitate the implementation of agricultural methane reduction measures.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2024

The 300-400 attendees each year come from land trusts, county and local municipal governments, state agencies, trail groups, watershed associations, and other organizations. Topics of interest for presentations encompass anything that can help land trusts and governments to improve upon their conservation-related work.

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Physics World

JANUARY 5, 2022

The summit brought together applied scientists and engineers working on emerging technologies with industry experts from Europe’s top-tier laboratories such as the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, and DESY in Hamburg, Germany. .

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Physics World

JUNE 16, 2022

The first practical demonstrators of quantum computers have fuelled speculation about the future impact this emerging technology will have for both scientific discovery and commercial exploitation. “Quantum computing is a largely unknown quantity in business,” he said. ” Business benefits. . ” Business benefits.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology. Utilities swiftly adopted cheap, flat volumetric rates as metering technology improved. But this principle isn’t new.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). “I He considered aerospace as a possible career, then computer technology. Magwood then became director of the office, making him the senior nuclear technology official in the US government.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

The Future of Carbon Capture,” will be led by Dr. Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. The Center was established in 2023 to jumpstart DAC technologies and accelerate the commercialization of DAC technologies beyond the conceptual stage.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More financially quantifiable is Ann Arbor’s cost to respond to PFAS, another toxic chemical first detected by Ann Arbor in 2014 and later traced up the Huron River to the same chrome plating plant, Tribar. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5 In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 12, 2022

Industry might argue that any progress along the road to reclamation should count, even though many are just testing technologies or in the early stages of treatment. Even recently, total fluid tailings volumes have increased from 1075 million cubic metres (Mm³) in 2014 to 1360 Mm³ in 2020 – a 20 per cent increase !

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. billion) over the three years 2014–16. The local government has to recognise its responsibilities.”. By Gao Baiyu. The Kubuqi desert. Photo credit: Alamy.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We knew when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 that Europe’s reliance on Russian gas was a serious problem, but next to no changes have been made since. Another key technology that has been forgotten about is energy efficiency. Perhaps turning down Nordstream 2 shows some change in that thinking.

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Green Bang

APRIL 3, 2014

The market for smart-building technologies is expected to triple between now and 2018, according to a new report from IDC Energy Insights. billion in 2014 to $21.9 The IDC report also identified several trends, including a greater maturity in smart-building technology adoption across the government and healthcare verticals.

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Green Bang

APRIL 3, 2014

The market for smart-building technologies is expected to triple between now and 2018, according to a new report from IDC Energy Insights. billion in 2014 to $21.9 The IDC report also identified several trends, including a greater maturity in smart-building technology adoption across the government and healthcare verticals.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM. An average of more than 130 million liters were spread on Pennsylvania roads each year from 2008 to 2014.

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

During its first years of operation, it was the most powerful example of particle accelerator technology in operation in Europe. Having achieved this technological leap, Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron would be used to make a more fundamental breakthrough at the heart of how matter behaves. Making strides and breaking laws.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The first, executed under the government of former president Evo Morales, brought a capacity of 50 MW. The second, seen through under Luis Arce’s current government and completed in February 2021, increased capacity to 100 MW, which supplies the National Interconnected System (SIN), Bolivia’s national grid.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The solar array, completed last December, is located on the roof of a former elementary school, owned by Wayne County, that hosts the county’s technology business incubator and public co-working space. Questions should be directed to Shannon Cilento, Outreach Assistant, by sending email to: shannon@seedsgroup.net. The Clean Energy Co-op Inc.

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Washington Nature

JULY 25, 2023

In the years that followed, he helped advocate for a movement to close the landfill, and an ongoing project to clean and restore it for safe and healthy use in 2014. federal government accountable for the treaty rights secured for the Makah people in the Neah Bay Treaty of 1855," he said. © Glenn Ellis Jr. My job is to hold the U.S.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The British coal-mining industry, which in the 1980s comprised 175 working pits, had been judged by the then-Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, to be uneconomic. However, the UK government has recently approved a controversial proposal to build the first coal mine in thirty years in Cumbria in northwest England.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 21, 2023

The NFT, created by digital artist Kevin McCoy in 2014 and associated with his digital artwork Quantum , sold through Sotheby's in 2021 for $1.47 to analyze and involve the blockchain technology behind NFTs. Arnold & Porter successfully defended Sotheby's, Inc., Free Holdings Inc. Kevin McCoy and Sotheby's, Inc.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. Meanwhile, the ultimate source of the IEA’s supposedly public data on PV carbon intensity is confidential and the data, therefore, unverifiable.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hawke has been named to Board’s Class of 2024, which will help govern the organization in its mission to preserve the historical significance of the SEC. The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has named Securities Enforcement & Litigation partner Daniel M. Hawke to its Board of Trustees.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Optimization decisions, large or small, govern pretty much all aspects of our lives. A promising answer emerged in 2014 through a collaboration led by Alberto Peruzzo and Jarrod McClean , then at the University of Bristol and Harvard University, respectively. Optimization is hard. This is a variational quantum circuit.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

AUGUST 28, 2024

Precision Agriculture The FFNSA dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies in conservation programs (Sec. The FFNSA also proposes creating Supplemental Activity Payments (SAP) for adopting and acquiring precision agriculture technologies through CSP. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the natural gas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides the Creek. DCNR likewise refused to provide residents with a written pledge that, should the technology fail, PGE will not be allowed to clear-cut the steep forested slopes to run pipelines up both mountain faces.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But I digress, let us get back to that study, which was published by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Imperial College’s Grantham Institute , show that continued rapid adoption of breakthrough technologies such as solar, giant wind turbines , large batteries and electric vehicles could further disrupt energy markets very quickly.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

I think I saw that the federal government came out with a 65% standard by somewhere in the mid 2030s in terms of the number of electric vehicles on the road. I mean, I think technology solves this problem and our current technology isn't there. “I Increasing Demand “Why is demand increasing? I'll be honest. Read more here.]

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Later the company was exposed for using another tool called “Greyball” to evade police and government officials as well as unwanted customers. The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Later the company was exposed for using another tool called “Greyball” to evade police and government officials as well as unwanted customers. The company typically pays out an undisclosed sum to get them to go away, as in the case of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, India, in 2014.

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