Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production. Our modern technological world wouldn’t function without rare earth elements. 12 of the rare earth elements are used in laser technology. It is used to make luminous paint.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. Courtesy: National Archives at College Park). 16 e2004956 ).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Government Accountability Office report in September found that one-in-five water systems across six states had unsafe levels of PFOA and PFOS. Reforms in 2016 required deeper reviews of tens of thousands of chemicals already in use, plus the new ones introduced each year. In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S. For example, U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The growing credits for electricity reflect the growing number of EVs on the road in California, and support California’s goal of phasing out combustion technologies in favor of zero emissions vehicles. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With just weeks to go before COP26 kicks off, all eyes are on the British hosts and the Conservative government and its leader Boris Johnson. And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson , when Mayor of London (2008-2016) used his Telegraph column to air doubts about whether climate change was real. Photo credit: UN Photo / Cia Pak.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

The move to carbon sequestration and hydrogen technology will require the development of new or repurposed pipelines to carry carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Many have questions about the safety of these pipelines and how they will be regulated by the federal and state government. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report.

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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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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. Dat Bike is one of numerous partners the US government works with to meet this rapidly growing demand for clean energy. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images. million people.

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

Deep learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and technology, particularly in natural language processing, speech recognition and computer vision. He was postdoctoral research fellow at the Case Western Reserve University and a scientist at the government research lab. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But this position fails to take into account the many storage technologies for wind and solar that allow energy to be stored and used during peak demand. . And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Tell the Ontario government to stop expanding dirty gas!

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. A facility in Minto, Ontario will soon be using solar panels and flywheel technology to supply peak power. This is completely doable. We could do it again, and even faster this time since we have the experience now. The Path Forward .

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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. between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. By Gao Baiyu. The Kubuqi desert. Photo credit: Alamy.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Utilizing cutting-edge drone technology, this initiative aims to locate these hidden environmental hazards, which pose significant risks to public health and safety, as well as climate and the environment. Potter County; Water Supplies Impacted, Report Well Problems To DEP Near This Facility [PaEN] -- House Committee Sets Sept.

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Physics World

APRIL 25, 2021

Graphene is an emerging strategic material and while the roadmap to industrialization is long and full of challenges, the BGI is aiming to accelerate it through a collaboration between government, industry and academia. What challenges – both technological and commercial – does graphene have to overcome to make it in these applications?

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It was undisputed that CARB could lawfully set emissions limits based on technologies that do not currently exist referred to as technology-forcing standards so long as those technologies are reasonably anticipated to exist by the compliance deadline. requirement to timely add the report to its public rulemaking file.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The stocktake of G20 climate action is outlined in the latest annual report from Climate Transparency, an international partnership of organisations including Climate Analytics, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and the Berlin Governance Platform. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes. Renewables rising.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

CCS technology is a problematic solution to controlling fossil fuel emissions. In 2016 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology closed its Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies program because the 43 projects it was involved with had all been canceled, put on hold or converted to other things.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on House Bill 2189 (Matzie-D-Beaver) reauthorizing the PA One Call underground utility notification program for seven years ( sponsor summary ) When this program was last reauthorized in 2017, the prime sponsor Sen. Click Here to watch live.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

20190903). -- Project Sponsor and Facility: Clear Water Technology, LLC (Middle Branch Wyalusing Creek), Forest Lake Township, Susquehanna County , PA. Application for renewal and modification of surface water withdrawal of up to 1.500 mgd (peak day) (Docket No.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Renewable energy technologies (such as solar photovoltaic and wind power) are also increasing in capacity to provide clean energy, but they are either variable or intermittent sources of power. has only seen two new nuclear plants enter commercial operation since the 1990s with Watts Bar Unit 2 in 2016 and Vogtle Unit 3 in 2023.

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Physics World

MAY 20, 2021

Arm Holdings doesn’t build the chips, but licenses its technology to virtually every semiconductor company on the planet. Rivals could therefore manage their own supply chains, knowing they had access to advanced and widely used processor technology under reasonable terms. I hope they make the right decision.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The IRRC had earlier expressed concern there were not separate final regulations for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities as required by a 2016 state law (Act 52). It is a federally mandated, technology-based standard. Read more here. funding that cannot be recuperated. This regulation is not controversial.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Were spotlighting Micheal Binnion, the Mastermind of Petro Populism, who has worked for decades to embed support for fossil fuels in the highest levels of the Canadian government. Today, were bringing you the final profile in our series about the Top Ten Climate Villains in Canada.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Another key technology that has been forgotten about is energy efficiency. In the UK the David Cameron government (2010 – 2016) got rid of their energy efficiency programmes – labelling it as green crap. Perhaps turning down Nordstream 2 shows some change in that thinking.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In 2016, I first traveled to the island nation of Vanuatu with a mission: to understand the real-life impacts of ghost gear (abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear) on the local communities.

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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. It wasn’t until 2016, long after much PV production had already moved east, that the transition appeared on data collectors’ radars.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

GW of wind capacity in September 2016, which produced 21 TWh in 2015. For solar PV , the installed capacity in September 2016 was of 7 GW, which produced 7.7 Then, we have at our disposal so many other efficient technologies such as LED light bulbs or other renewables such as wind power and so many others. click to enlarge.

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Water Research & Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology team is very pleased to welcome two new researchers to our Advisory Board! Chris Gordon has won several awards including the Order of the Volta, awarded by the Government of Ghana for service in Development, Education and Research. Professor Chris Gordon.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Academics, governments and the technology industry are all involved in a global race to build the first usable and scalable quantum computer. Erven – who was deputy director of the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre at the University of Bristol – has long been interested in the commercial application of quantum encryption.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

billion (USD 15 billion) a year of preferential, government-backed support out of fossil fuels and into clean energy — and much more if initial signatories are successful in convincing their peers to join. . Transparency matters, and we now urge the Canadian government to release implementation details of this critical policy.”

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 16, 2017

The scheme, closed in early 2016, was set up in 2012 to encourage renewable heat uptake. 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.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

A local air district approved a rule requiring warehouses to adopt clean technologies or pay a mitigation fee. SCAQMD will issue solicitations for projects to be funded by the WAIRE Mitigation Program, and awards of funds must be presented to the SCAQMD Governing Board for approval at least annually. By Joshua T. Further Actions.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 24, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen President Biden used Earth Day to ramp up his administrations commitment on tackling climate change, protecting the environment and investing in clean energy technologies. Biden said: “I will put tens of thousands of young people to work at the forefront of our climate resilience and clean energy future.”

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. Knodt, Michèle (2019).

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