Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 10, 2025 Cutting-edge technology applied to energy development, geography, and species assessments is a path to achieving more security for water supply. They produce no carbon emissions that cause climate change, and can be air-cooled.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Governments should be aiming to trigger technological, economic and social tipping points that accelerate climate action, according to a major report

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Carbon-reduction plans, if not well designed, can worsen water scarcity and pollution. Plans to reduce carbon emissions should take water into account. Some low-carbon energy options require significant amounts of water. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Environmental Leader

MARCH 1, 2022

The technology is expected to reduce each vehicle’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2,000 pounds annually and lower both fuel and maintenance costs. The post DHL Is Adopting This Innovative Technology To Reduce Its Carbon Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 10, 2025 Cutting edge technology applied to energy development, geography, and species assessments is a path to achieving more security for water supply. They produce no carbon emissions that cause climate change, and can be air-cooled.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sportswear company ASICS announced today the launch of the GEL-LYTE III CM 1.95, a new sneaker produced with a series of low carbon materials, technologies and design details.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 24, 2021

…It’s already under development in research labs. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

Terms such as global warming and carbon emissions must be converted into everyday language. This group of women learns about specific adaptation technologies. To address this, SEWA created the Climate School. The Climate School thus first creates content, trains Climate Educators, and then Trains Climate Entrepreneurs.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 3, 2022

Dell Technologies committed to reducing emissions from assets it owned and controlled by 40% by 2020 from a 2010 baseline. It also sought to cut indirect emissions from the energy it purchased by the same amount. And, it promised to cut its energy intensity by 80% by 2020 from a 2012 baseline. The results?

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Meijer announced on Tuesday it aims to halve its absolute carbon emissions by 2025. To reach the target, the Midwestern retailer said it will add more renewable energy procurement and test “innovative” technologies like energy-saving geothermal projects for refrigeration, which it plans to pilot next year.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 3, 2022

According to a report from BloombergNEF (BNEF), a strategic research provider covering global commodity markets and the technologies driving the transition to a low-carbon economy, steel producers virtually could eliminate carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, with hydrogen and recycling playing pivotal roles.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

climate envoy John Kerry recently stated that in order to reach net zero emission goals by 2045, we’ll “need technologies we don’t yet have.” It’s true that battling climate change requires innovative, technologically driven ideas that can be tested, replicated and scaled, at warp speed.… Well, he’s half right.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Fourteen states now have net-zero emissions targets for the economy as a whole, and sixteen have zero-carbon targets for the grid. New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

A quarter of carbon emissions from transportation come from heavy-duty trucks. Addressing these emissions will be challenging and will require a multi-prong strategy. California and fourteen other states plan to make 30% of new heavy-duty truck sales zero emission by 2030. Another option would not require new technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Next, we joined the Going-to-the-Sun Road for six miles, a necessary but unpleasant stretch due to the noise and fumes from traffic (a reminder of the carbon emissions that threaten the very glaciers we had come to see). We hiked this section to avoid startling bears, as Montana has the largest grizzly population in the lower 48.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. Download as PDF.

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Cresforum

JUNE 7, 2023

This agreement will not only support Louisiana’s objective of net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050, but it also serves as an incredible example of U.S. industry commitment to deploying innovative technologies to reduce emissions, protect our domestic supply chains, and increase America’s competitive advantage.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

One reason to save energy is to limit carbon emissions from the energy we use. But energy conservation is important for reasons that go beyond the direct effect on emissions. How all of this works out depends on which technologies end up in the lead, but every technology out there will require a lot of new mineral use.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you become an IP lawyer, there’s work to be done on clean energy technologies. Energy regulation is increasingly entwined with the need to cut carbon emissions. Traditional land use law is tied in with urban sprawl, a big problem in terms of carbon emissions and urban air pollution. Land Use Law.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 25, 2022

DOE developed the Low Carbon Technology Strategies guidance documents to support organizations in their journeys to reduce carbon emissions in their buildings. The primary purpose is to aid owners and operators of existing buildings in planning retrofit and operational strategies to achieve deep carbon reductions.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 26, 2024

Proponents say carbon emissions from a process to produce hydrogen from fracked natural gas would be sequestered. Environmentalists counter that carbon capture technology is unproven, expensive and, at best, of minimal benefit.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) and the REMADE Institute announced more than $16 million in research and development funding for 23 projects that will reduce energy use and carbon emissions associated with industrial-scale materials production, processing, and recycling.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Standards for carbon and methane emissions from new sources Permitting requirements for carbon emissions from new stationary sources of major sources of existing pollutants. Standards for emissions from new vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals. CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

A carbon tax could cover the economy without the need for scores of regulations tailored to each industry. It wouldn’t require placing bets on what zero carbon technologies will win out. It would provide an incentive for cutting carbon emissions, with the byproduct of cutting air pollution everywhere.

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Earth 911

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The post Guest Opinion: Technology Can Help Reduce Your Carbon Footprint appeared first on Earth911. Global warming is one of the greatest threats to the future of our planet and.

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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.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

All told, they represent 56 percent of the US population, generate 62 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and are responsible for 43 percent of the country’s annual carbon emissions. It also creates opportunities in component manufacturing, sales, financing and maintenance for a range of renewable energy technologies.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Kelly Sanders of the University of Southern California says the magnitude of a carbon emissions increase due to drought is difficult to calculate, owing to the complexity of electricity supply and demand. The answer is usually only apparent much later, after rigorous data analysis. Storage in particular would be needed.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A 1 megawatt vanadium flow battery (a different technology from lithium-ion, but also used for energy storage) is in Pullman, Washington, built by UniEnergy Technologies and owned by Avista Utilities. Source: UniEnergy Technologies / Wikimedia Commons. Engineers develop energy storage battery technologies. Batteries.

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Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2022

A lot has been written about the efforts of universities to clean up their own carbon emissions. At present, we do not have central, strategically focused coordinating structures and mechanisms for developing education, research, technology and policy hubs linked to climate. The Climate School will provide that.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards. So what follows from that obligation?

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Environmental Leader

APRIL 15, 2022

By using green steel, improving battery technology and implementing renewable energy and more recycled materials, Mercedes-Benz plans to significantly reduce the carbon emissions of its vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Simply by taking West Virginia v. EPA the Supreme Court signaled ominous things to come.

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