Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Implementing strategies that result in better EV efficiency, right-sized range, and reduced VMT will result in savings of 1.5 million metric tons of newly mined lithium from 2025 to 2050. This estimate includes lithium demand for passenger vehicles and transit and assumes all sales are electrified by 2035. Dunn et al., Dunn et al.,

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Taking into consideration all the bills presented throughout the year, the overall veto rate for the 2024 session was 16% out of 1,200 total bills per CalMatters. The 2024 veto rate is on par with previous years. This passage is another move toward protecting the health of disadvantaged frontline communities in California.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 8, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The large US power utility, Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest utilities in the country is to buy geothermal energy from one of the most exciting new technologies to emerge, optimising the use of energy from below the surface of the Earth.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A BloombergNEF (BNEF) report has revealed that 2024 was a bumper year for clean energy investments across the globe. In Energy Transition Investment Trends 2025, the energy analysts found that in 2024, clean energy investments reached a record high of $2.1tn and were responsible for the sector’s growth by 11%.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

We are also working with GreenLati n os to determine community needs and questions around Solar for All and planning to offer additional resources to those community members once the awardees are announced (expected sometime in April 2024).

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Nanotech

DECEMBER 4, 2024

On December 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) will hold a webinar on its Bioenergy Feedstock Library, “a cornerstone database resource funded by DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), and how it supports bioenergy research.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Global spending on clean energy technologies and infrastructure is on track to hit $2 trillion in 2024. Much of this funding is slated to be put toward renewables, electric vehicles, low-emission fuels, storage solutions, nuclear power and other green technology. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, the current approach is neither technology agnostic nor does it reflect that Ontarios peak demand is a maximum of six hours in any 24-hour cycle in both winter and summer.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Here are 10 words that entered our vocabulary this year, capturing discoveries at the cutting edge of science, elusive emotions and the various ways technology is changing our lives

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Amazon says its investment includes manufacturing capacity to develop the SMR equipment to support more than five gigawatts (GW) of new nuclear energy projects utilizing X-energy’s technology.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Penn State University Libraries will observe GIS Day -- an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS)-- with sessions on Nov. With a theme relating to 2024 Geography Awareness Week : Geographers Take Action, the sessions explore the contributions of geographers. 18 and a trivia event on Nov.

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APRIL 22, 2025

in State College starting at 10:00 a.m.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The future of Albertas energy-based economy depends on advancing wind, solar and battery storage technologies. The survey was conducted by Abacus Data with 2,700 Canadians over the age of 18, from November 29 to December 4, 2024. Albertans understand this. Our government needs to stop impeding clean energy development.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

I reviewed ExxonMobil’s two most recent reports (2023/2024) to evaluate the scientific rigor of its claims. A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. Again, there are no numbers on the X or the Y axes. Double yikes! And no units either.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2025

In late October 2024, dozens of trees, salvaged from the land and potted as if they had just arrived from the nursery, watched over the quiet construction zone. Youre the fuel that helps us grow, Orsborn told a representative from the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona at a Buckeye City Council meeting on October 15, 2024.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The bill mandates that the revised rule reflect new data and technology that would improve SCAQMDs oversight of these facilities and help reduce the negative impacts of pollution in adjacent communities. These common-sense measures draw on already available technology and solutions.

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Cresforum

MAY 13, 2024

In consideration of this growing demand comes the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act of 2024 , an amendment included in the House approved version of S. advanced nuclear power technologies and fuels, with consideration of U.S. 870, the Fire Grants and Safety Act.

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This year scientists found universal language for pain, tracked why some words go extinct, developed mind-reading brain-to-speech technology, and more

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

The PA Parks and Forests Foundation held its 15th Annual Awards Banquet and celebrated 13 award recipients for their outstanding stewardship of Pennsylvania’s state park and state forest system at Little Buffalo State Park in Perry County on May 14, 2024. Additionally, I would like to thank the s ponsors that made the banquet possible.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

On January 18, the Department of Environmental Protection presented the final version of technical guidance on using trenchless technology to construct natural gas, other pipelines and underground utilities to the DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee. Each project that proposes trenchless technology (e.g.,

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A Greener Life

APRIL 25, 2025

billion in 2023 to $723 million in 2024. But with net-zero deadlines rapidly approaching, demand for high-quality credits is primed to surge: The market is projected to recover to $10-40 billion by 2030 and could reach $135 billion by 2024. In 2024, biochar-based projects accounted for 86% of CDR purchases by volume.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

It wouldn’t require placing bets on what zero carbon technologies will win out. And the GOP is likely to be able to block such a bill until the 2024 elections. But depending on how things go in 2024, it might be well worth considering. Unlike emission trading system, they don’t require designing and operating new markets.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and assess advanced separation technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare earth elements and other critical materials from coal, coal wastes, acid mine drainage and coal by-products. The newly funded project will help to establish a 100% domestic supply chain, reducing U.S.

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Cresforum

MAY 23, 2024

7685, the Innovative Mitigation Partnerships for Asphalt and Concrete Technologies (IMPACT) Act, introduced by Rep. The program will focus on technologies like carbon capture, which can mitigate carbon emissions across entire facilities. The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, chaired by Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.),

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Electrification involves a transition away from a technology which people have become accustomed to, and change is always challenging. Because EVs are a relatively recent technology, statistics are still being collected on the frequency of maintenance and repairs, but there are some estimates of the cost of predicted repairs and maintenance.

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

AI-generated disinformation will target voters on a near-daily basis in more than 50 countries, according to a new analysis

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. Generation from renewable technologies more than covers the increase in electricity demand, also making up for coal and nuclear plant retirements. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. Will Install Warning Signs Around Wastewater Outfall Of MAX Environmental Technologies Yukon Facility In Sewickley Creek, Westmoreland County [PaEN] [Posted: April 29, 2024] PA Environment Digest Environmental Protection Agency announced.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

On September 12, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission approved water withdrawal requests-- including eight for shale gas development for a total of 23 in 2024. The SRBC also issued a total of 188 General Permits for individual water uses by shale gas well pads in 2024. Read more here.

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Nanotech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

On December 11, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking a rule under Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prohibit the production of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) during Inhance Technologies, LLCs (Inhance) fluorination process. 2024-2194).

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Acoel

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Michael B. But it ran out of money and was pulled down, for now, in May 2024. CEQ released that study in July 2024. It captured more than 26,000 NEPA documents, including more than 12,600 downloadable pdf’s, and was used by 5,500 active users, with more than 78,000 visits.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2024

CRES Forum hosted the sixth and final CRES Academy session of 2024, “Nuclear 101: The Role of Nuclear Technologies in Powering the Future.” The session explored the vital importance of nuclear assets for the future of energy in the U.S.,

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But it ran out of money and was pulled down, for now, in May 2024. CEQ released that study in July 2024. It captured more than 26,000 NEPA documents, including more than 12,600 downloadable pdfs, and was used by 5,500 active users, with more than 78,000 visits. While it lasted, it was a fantastic research tool.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

But the fact that 2024 is a leap year seems apt for a period in which the US clean energy market seems poised to leap to a whole new level, in exciting and even startling ways. Solar will have its biggest year ever Solar and wind have been clean energy generation superstars for a while now, and 2024 should be no exception.

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