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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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Courtesy: NEA). William D Magwood IV.

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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

In both cases, the green band shows the official 2014 recommended value from CODATA, while the red line shows the (very precise) value obtained from muonic hydrogen. Mohr says it “made less sense to average” the large and small radii in 2014 than it did four years later, given the absence of independent confirmation at that time.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. 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. from Villanova University School of Law.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The resulting closures caused great unemployment and hardship in coal-mining areas, together with much social and political violence and unrest in 1984-5. The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. Strong pushback.

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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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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 16, 2017

The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme was a policy instrument set up to increase uptake in a variety of renewable heat technologies – from biomass boilers to solar thermals, biogas, heat pumps – for use by businesses from 2012 and in homes from 2014. A political scandal. To political interference within one party?

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. Approving the Keystone XL is not investing in renewable energy or clean technology. There are political consequences. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself. I am an Oklahoman. I am a scientist. Tar sands oil.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Notably, some suggest the 2018 Farm Bill reflects a new set of standards for conservation that incorporate new technologies and science, focus on soil health and climate resilience, and encourage action at the watershed level. An unfortunate result of the lapse in Farm Bill authority upon expiration of the 2014 bill was that 39.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

And a lot of the technology is very approachable.” Donnel Baird, the company’s CEO, and Kinch founded BlocPower in 2014. The two men, both Black, met 16 years ago while working on a local political campaign. “But the tech I’m teaching them, it bridges a lot of the gaps. “This is my purpose in life.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with the U.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2014

Although New York City passed legislation to enable an Animal Abuse Registry in early 2014, the reasons more progress has not been made include (1) lack of respect for animals, speciesism, (2) allocation of funds to every other cause first, (3) the ongoing classification of animals as “property,” and (4) some combination of 1–3.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the past 30 years of extensive political debate around global climate change, participants have largely ignored the role that curbing population growth could play in dealing with it. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014). Figure SPM.3

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. As for the two surveys of soil pollution, the first was of soil in general while the second focused on agricultural land. The first covered around 6.3 Pollution was found to breach standards at 16.1% of the sampling sites. of polluted sites. Forty years of change.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Following a five-week tribunal, it was found that KPMG staff misled the FRC during the latter’s routine inspections of the audit of Carillion’s accounts for 2016 and the accounts of Regenersis for 2014. With this in mind, the intent behind the prohibitions is to prevent Russia accessing these professional services.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. Because these harms are all mediated by political behavior, it is impossible to conclusively refute claims that they “could” happen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

While these data have been available since 2014 from the Climate Accountability Institute, the most recent update of this dataset is now easily accessible and explorable on a new platform hosted by InfluenceMap.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And newly-developed drilling technology allows operators to first drill downward and then horizontally for thousands of feet. Application of these “monster fracking” technologies has in recent years made the United States the largest oil and gas producing nation in the world. aquifers.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths. Who are the executives who spread the misinformation?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

trillion American food and fiber production sector that counts powerful allies in marketing, equipment, chemical, energy industries, and politics. . He has invested in precision farming technologies that rely on remote sensing and multispectral imagery to cut the farm’s commercial fertilizer use. are the frontline of an immense $1.1

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Physics World

MARCH 18, 2022

Under president Vladimir Putin, Russia had already invaded the country in 2014 – annexing the Crimean peninsula – and supported Russian separatist forces in the Donbass region. The letter’s withdrawal was a chilling reminder of what Russia’s political climate has become.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea conditions in Ukraine have not exactly been peaceful and stable, and there has to some extent been a civil war ever since between groups loyal to Russia and those more loyal to the West and the EU. Kyiv is much more open to dealing with the climate crisis, due in large part to their closer ties to the EU.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

But rather than admitting that their product is causing the problem, they continue to insist on producing tar sand oil and crossing their fingers that risky and underperforming CCS technology will allow them to get away with it. Pourbaix is pushing hard to take us away from effective climate action, and getting very rich while doing it.

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Physics World

MARCH 3, 2022

Science fiction has always explored scientific possibilities, both current technology and the furthest reaches of what could still be described as science. The plot goes to some (for me) unexpected places that explore a range of ideas social, political and psychological.

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Physics World

MAY 8, 2021

The test also received a brief mention in The Imitation Game , the Oscar-winning 2014 biopic about Turing’s wartime code-breaking work. But then in 2014 a chatbot posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy fooled the benchmark 30% of the judges. But the underlying questions of representation, reasoning and how machines think remained.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 5 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 5 Webinar On Watershed Friendly Native Planting [PaEN] -- Reminder: Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Native Tree & Shrub Sale Continues Thru Aug. 5 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. No Problem.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

If economic growth accelerates, then GHG emissions will accelerate (given current technologies). See my 2014 lecture. At a conference in 2019 that honored Frank Wolak, I pres ented these slides to make these points clear. John does not discuss the feedback loop. See the paper by Davis and Gertler in PNAS 2015 for an example.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

As a result, 1,280 people died from cold from unaffordable electrical power, researchers calculate, between 2011 and 2014. [24] 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. The study authors concluded that higher variability was the main driver of higher costs. [18] trillion. [25]

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The first camp, those who have a blind deus ex machina belief that technology, together with human innovation and ingenuity will save the day, offers nothing reasonable to the debate. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

By Travis Rosenbluth In 2014, scientists of the IPCC agreed that human influence on the climate system is evident. The first camp, those who have a blind deus ex machina belief that technology, together with human innovation and ingenuity will save the day, offers nothing reasonable to the debate. Seven Years to Midnight?

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019. s production plant in Fremont, Calif.,

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