Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. The oil and gas industry, led by Chevron U.S.A.,

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Importantly, the agency affirmed that affordable technologies exist to help slaughterhouses meet the proposed standards. Recent research by the Environmental Integrity Project on slaughterhouses that paid little to no fines for their illegal water pollution between 2016 and 2018 concluded that “penalties and enforcements are rare.”

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Dr. Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. Using the latest technology, platforms, and services, Frontiers’ team of more than 750 employees aims to unlock science through open-access.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet. But science also tells us that we have most of the technologies and solutions that we need.

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Frontiers

JULY 20, 2021

This could help put measures in place that limit damage to technology and energy grids on Earth from the electromagnetic radiation. On 23 July 2012, humanity escaped technological and economic disaster. Palmerio and collaborators looked at four stealth CMEs that occurred between 2008 and 2016. 1st column: 08 Oct 2016 15:00 UTC.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Researchers at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, a think tank that works on urban sustainability issues, analyzed flooding data across Chicago neighborhoods. Just thirteen Zip codes represent nearly three-fourths of flood damage claims paid in Chicago between 2007 and 2016. They found an important statistical relationship.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A 2016 statute, SB 1383 , limited the Board’s authority to enact regulations of methane emissions from livestock operations until January 1, 2024. It’s not hard to see why CARB has taken this approach: dairy digesters are a technological intervention that require little change to the operation of industrial dairies.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The market introduction of the MR-Linac technology improves the patient care via the real-time imaging of the targeted PTVs. During the webinar you will also learn more about the THALES technology for commissioning and quality-assurance processes of conventional Linacs. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Learned societies propose ‘International Year of Quantum Science and Technology’ in 2025. This merger is a promising sign for the industry, according to James McKenzie, who was vice president for business at the Institute of Physics from 2016-2020. “It It shows commercial relevance and fuels further investment,” he says.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Vertical farming incorporates several alternative farming technologies, such as hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics. These include the increasing demand for fresh organic vegetables, the emergence of innovative agricultural techniques and technologies, urbanised land growth, and soil quality degradation.

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Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2024

We fund climate technology startups. In 2016, former ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda claimed the court would focus on ecological damage and illegal exploitation of natural resources, yet little resulted from this claim. We elect representatives that keep the climate in mind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s worth noting that the shareholder proposal requesting the nomination of a climate expert to ExxonMobil’s board received just over 20 percent support in 2016. The corporation’s “low carbon” roadmap relies heavily on unproven and unscaled technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The conventional wisdom to categorize hydrogen production methods relies on colours that are associated with the technology pathways and their net carbon-emission impact. He is the recipient of the 2017–2018 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship and 2016 ECS Srinivasan Young Investigator Award.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists using satellite technology to fully grasp. Scientists at the NASA lab have formed an unusual bond with Corcoran, spending years tracking subsidence there and elsewhere in the San Joaquin Valley by using radar and satellite technology. Corcoran is sinking.

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Physics World

JULY 2, 2021

In this webinar we will discuss the characteristics of state-of- the-art tunable CW OPO designs and describe tuning schemes that have been tailored for applications like colour centre research and other quantum technologies, nanophotonics, holography, high-resolution spectroscopy, and experiments alike.

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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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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. 16 e2004956 ).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. Photo credit: Beijing 2022. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 24, 2021

If built, the device could even advance technologies such as quantum computing. Indeed, the first such black hole analogue was produced in 2016 in a Bose-Einstein condensate. It’s very unlikely that one of these could be realized in nature, but it is possible to generate these in analogues,” says Blencowe. Entangled radiation.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This was accomplished by requiring industries, public utilities and other so-called “point source” polluters to install technology that pulls certain pollutants from wastewater before they’re released into rivers. Reforms in 2016 required deeper reviews of tens of thousands of chemicals already in use, plus the new ones introduced each year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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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MAY 7, 2024

The AER has rubber-stamped the industry’s tailings clean-up plans for decades, despite these relying on unproven or dangerous technologies. This includes the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) set up in 2012 and the Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) set up in 2016.

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Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

Recent advances in materials, mechanics, and manufacturing establish the foundations for high-performance classes of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies that have physical properties matched to those of human skin. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

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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Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. Fracking is a shortened version of “hydraulic fracturing,” an oil and gas drilling method that has been around for decades but improved only relatively recently with such methods as horizontal drilling. .

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the worst mass bleaching events occurred in 2016 and 2017 on the Great Barrier Reef, causing bleaching on 91% of the system’s reefs. The focus of the fogging technologies we are developing is for deployment at an individual reef site of some tens of hectares in size,” Harrison continued.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. million in a fraudulent solar power scheme. Punishment: Pending.

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Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dr Y Shirley Meng received her PhD in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005, after which she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 29, 2022

From a 2016 baseline, it has vowed to reduce water intensity by 15%, carbon intensity by 30%, and waste-to-landfill by 45% by 2025. Marriott is an environmental leader. The post Marriott Reduces Water and Energy Use by Double-Digits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 16, 2021

He is also the co-founder of the Swedish thin film technology company Ionautics. He obtained his PhD in 2010 and his Docent Degree/Habilitation in 2016 at Linköping University, Sweden. He has published approximately 80 papers in refereed journals with more than 2600 citations.

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Physics World

JULY 3, 2021

In the latest research, John Prestage , Robert Tjoelker , Eric Burt and colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the California Institute of Technology built a clock that is small and rugged enough to withstand the harsh conditions of space yet also stable enough to operate independently. Time to fly. 15 per day underwhelming.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Reconfiguring water sharing agreements, technological innovations in water access and treatment, and tools for assessing the near-term and long-term impacts of climate change on water supplies are just a sampling. Haiti A series of natural disasters in Haiti – Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and a magnitude 7.2

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Those critical challenges will require inventive and practical solutions, which is why automotive manufacturer Toyota has teamed up with The Electrochemical Society (ECS) to award a series of research fellowships focused on the development of green-energy technologies that reduce both pollution and carbon emissions.

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