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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

As of 2020, the three largest sources of emissions in Pennsylvania are: -- Electricity Generation (29% of gross emissions) -- Transportation Fuel Consumption (22% of gross emissions) -- Industrial Emissions (19% of gross emissions) Emissions from electricity generation decreased 10.4% from 2005 to 2020.

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Analysis: Too hot to sleep? Nights are warming faster than days as Earth heats up?

A Greener Life

And with gruelling heatwaves becoming more common , the nights can be sweltering, with no cooling breeze to relieve the discomfort. C, set in Cambridge in July 2019) are likely to occur every few years by 2100. We must cut carbon emissions – or future summers will be long, hot and sleepless. By Stephen Burt.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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Research fellowships target clean-energy innovation

Physics World

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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Climate Strike Perth, Western Australia

Onya

As a certified B Corporation, being socially and environmentally responsible is incredibly important to us so we’re proud to announce that on 20 September 2019 here at Onya it was not business as usual as we supported our employees to get involved and participate in the Global Climate Strike happening in Perth. Part of a global collaboration.

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Analysis: How to cut emissions from ‘big sport’?

A Greener Life

Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. Approximately 95% of venues for the Paris Games will be pre-existing or temporary facilities, and this factor alone is expected to reduce carbon emissions by one million tonnes compared to new buildings.

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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

The total number of negative price hours, whereby power plants had to pay people to take unneeded electricity, grew dramatically between 2019 and 2020, just as they did in California during the same period, and have grown since. Part of the problem in Texas was that wind and solar farms set the price for the rest of the system.

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