Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 26, 2022

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Visit DEPs Climate Change webpage for more information on these and other Pennsylvania climate initiatives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

This June, I had the opportunity to testify at the Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee’s hearing on “Hydrogen Hubs and Climate Change.” My name is Julie McNamara, and I am a senior analyst and deputy policy director for climate and energy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 26, 2022

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

And those on the frontlines of these disasters need emergency help immediately, as well as climate resilience investments to protect them from future impacts we’ve already locked in. There isn’t a place on the planet that is immune to the climate-caused extremes we are witnessing today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

People blocking progress need to get out of the way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Misusing TEK affects climate science As scientists realized that Western science was failing to comprehensively address climate change, they began seeking out TEK as a method of combatting its effects. Some oral documentation of discussions of initial change goes back as far as the 1950s.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 17, 2024

Redistributing food to food banks before it’s tossed or wasted doesn’t just fight hunger—such efforts also fight climate change

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

What role is climate change playing? As climate change increases the frequency or intensity of extreme events such as wildfires, heat waves, and heavy downpours, there is an increase in the potential for different types of risks to coincide or for a climate-related event to trigger a cascade of non-climatic consequences.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 10, 2025

report maps a path toward a more sustainable future and challenges society to question basic assumptions and values about the environment, consumption and waste. By Bob Berwyn A team of international researchers published a new U.N.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 14, 2023

Held in Expo City Dubai, the Green Retreat, debuted innovative ideas related to climate change action, environmental preservation, and sustainability efforts. The post UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment Holds “Green Retreat” appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

One key component of a transformational food and farm bill would be a strong focus on how we address the impacts of climate change on our food system and the agricultural sector. And that’s where the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) climate hubs play a critical role. There’s no time to waste.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of pushing the federal government to develop ambitious climate action strategies, many provincial governments have challenged every single environmental and climate policy the government has proposed. Many have stooped to spreading misinformation concerning the cost of climate action. There is no time to waste.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The complaint is a cri de coeur : clear, outraged, and horrifying in its recounting of the plastic waste problem and its causes. In fact, Mobil patented the co-processing of plastic waste in cokers in 1978. million tonnes of plastic waste escaped into California’s environment. In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

However, it is the case that it is more difficult for companies to obtain financing for oil and gas projects than renewable projects due to the mounting impacts of climate change. Below is an abridged version of our exchange. Consider what has happened at BlackRock. They have a duty to manage their state and city investments prudently.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Families need protection from the petrochemical industry’s harmful air pollution and planned expansion that impacts health, contributes to climate change, and perpetuates environmental injustices." Click Here for a video of the press conference. Click Here to sign the petition.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2023

Treasurer Ball has wasted no time in implementing SB205 to push forward this fossil-funded agenda and has named 11 financial institutions that could be subject to divestment for engaging in so-called “energy boycotts.” ” Kentucky officials are not doing this alone, it is part of a coordinated effort.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 24, 2025

Climate Change vs. Circular Economy: Challenges of the Most Common Route for Recycling Gold from WEEE. However, WEEE contains valuable metals … Continue reading Climate Change vs. Circular Economy: Challenges of the Most Common Route for Recycling Gold from WEEE Fritz, B., & Schmidt, M. Sustainability, 17(5).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. On top of these trends, the impacts of climate change are accelerating.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2022

But as I began to work on climate change, I found it inspiring to look back at the photos from April 1970 and learn about what motivated 20 million people to action—and the impact of public mobilization on policy and practice in the years that followed. Happy Earth Day! I was only four years old when the first Earth Day took place.

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NRDC

MARCH 27, 2024

The Bureau of Land Management published a final methane waste rule that will compliment EPA’s efforts to target a major contributor to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

” Because EtO is cheap to produce, waste from fugitive emissions is not a cost issue for companies to resolve. However, these GHGs cause climate change and cost the US billions of dollars a year in disaster relief and climate change mitigation projects. Where does one find these EtO production facilities ?

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Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2021

I hope this study will endeavor to get to the crux of the problem, not to gloss over it or waste time.” – Greg Milner, a Irymple farmer living along the Murray River. The post The Stream, July 8, 2021: Dams in California Hurt Ability of Streamside Trees to Adapt to Climate Change appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

My own priorities are public health, climate change, and preservation of biodiversity/ecosystems. Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. I included all laws passed in the U.S., not just federal regulatory laws, and some of my selections may not be what you expected. Also known as the Superfund law.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that CDR will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to limit global warming to 1.5 Both the London Convention and London Protocol require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. may be authorized under a permit.”

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. While the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An obvious choice may be to consider the geochemical effect of the enormous increase in CO 2 emissions that mark the post-industrial revolution and which drives anthropogenic climate change. Other proposals suggest that future geologists would recognize changes in erosion and sedimentation rates that result from human land use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is essential, because scientific monitoring efforts suggest that for all emissions sources, the actual emissions are higher than what countries are reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in their own emissions inventories. But still, much more action is needed.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. One of the people peddling this idea is the man behind Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) – Murray Edwards, the Fossil Fuel Fanatic.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

On October 4, Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley joined Joe Arthur, CEO of the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank , to announce DEP is now accepting Food Recovery Infrastructure Grants to help nonprofit organizations fight hunger by reducing food waste. The deadline for applications is February 28.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2023

If we had price information for each individual food item, then we could shop in a more intelligent way, buying only what we need, wasting less, and prioritizing the more affordable items. We cannot afford to waste that water. Imagine our sticker shock when we see the tally. But it is coming.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The twin goals are are to improve the flow of information and reduce the wasting of water. This week, Circle of Blue looks at a major new climate report, which finds that a warming planet is accelerating the water cycle. The 1,300-page paper is the most comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the physical science of climate change.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

Moreover, Klein himself acknowledges that even in the context of climate change—where he posits that laws like CEQA stand in the way of the transformational societal changes we need to make—there are really challenging tradeoffs; his argument seems to be that we should just ignore those tradeoffs in favor of acting quickly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Imagine cutting waste and energy consumption all in one go! By building components off-site, prefabrication can minimize waste and energy consumption during construction. In glass furnaces and oil refineries, dynamic optimization can prevent wasted energy and lower emissions, making industry leaner and greener.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste).

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