A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe , according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Everyone can understand that renewable energy sources-- sunlight, wind, the heat of the earth, and water in various forms of motion-- have an initial advantage over sources that must be continually extracted, processed, transported, and burned. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C The report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of climate change looked at a variety of pathways for increased climate actions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Through greenwashing ads, disinformation campaigns, attacks on scientists, and production of fake scientific evidence, the industry has engaged the playbook of deception to undermine climate action.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And the users don’t know exactly how to choose between the whole available dataset or a selection of a small number of climate model results. Climate scientists are still thinking about how to extract useful information, which can be interpreted as useful messages that decision-makers can act upon.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

. -- Katie Rever, IGS Energy. -- Joel Harrington, Enel North America. -- Brent Alderfer, Community Energy. -- Leslie Elder, Coalition for Community Solar Access. -- Tim Mills, Program Manager, Renewable Energy Division, ARM Group (Renewable Works for PA). Click Here to watch a video of the hearing.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My In any case, renewable energy companies may look favourably at the new government and its commitment to decarbonisation. “We

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

continue to rely on an outdated fossil fuel energy source, and prolong the opportunity to become world leaders in renewable energy sources. Amplify voices of local activists and climate scientists. Frame climate the human health issue that it is, and speak of the climate crisis in present tense.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

.; Olympus Energy Expects To Begin Construction In June 2025 -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue For 2023 Estimated To Be Among Lowest On Record -- PennLive Guest Essay: We Can’t Let Pennsylvania Become The Next Petrochemical Cancer Alley - By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council -- Delaware RiverKeeper Network (..)

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. Change 65 102184 ), climate scientists jet off two to three times a year on average, whereas other researchers get on planes just twice during that time. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. The emissions from the burning of coal such as steel and power plants are the single biggest contributor to climate change. Gove also insisted that the operation of the mine will be net-zero.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen. Schuylkill County -- PA Solar Center Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

Schuylkill County -- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: 2024 Starts With A Grim Climate Milestone, But Hydrogen Policy Hope - By John Quigley, Former DEP/DCNR Secretary -- PennLive Letter: Climate Change Is Costing Pennsylvanians Plenty, And Someone Has To Pay For It - By Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

As PPL expands its operations to Rhode Island with the recent acquisition of The Narragansett Electric Company, now Rhode Island Energy, the corporation is focused on replicating this success.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

6 RiverWatch Video Report -- AP: Witnesses To FBI Hunt For Civil War Gold On DCNR State Forest Land Describe Heavily Loaded Armored Truck, Signs Of Night Dig -- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In September Now Available [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: PJM, 80 Parties Agree To Trim Winter Storm Elliott Penalties By 31.7%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In June, more than 750 scientists sent an open letter organized by UCS to Citi, calling on the bank to stop financing fossil fuel expansion, respect human rights, and redirect finance to renewable energy.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

More recently, I was the interim director and policy director with the Global Battery Alliance within the World Economic Forum, which works on driving human rights and sustainability in the battery value chain, in the scale up of electrification and renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

In a telling moment during a 2021 congressional hearing, top oil and gas company executives refused to tell API’s president to stop opposing climate and environmental policies the corporations claim to support. P is for Paltering Researchers describe paltering as the use of technically true statements to create an overall false impression.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Tillerson, meanwhile, dismissed the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (and striving to limit it to 1.5 Climate scientists, that’s who. degrees C) as “something magical.” is not good enough?”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2024

“It’s imperative that local, state, and federal policymakers and emergency planners help keep communities safe by prioritizing investments to get homes, businesses, and infrastructure in frontline communities climate-ready and be prepared to ensure a quick and just recovery should disaster strike.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. It’s a big deal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2024

A group of climate and energy experts and enthusiasts enters a theater to watch Twisters , hoping for a renewable energy twist. In the words of Kristy Dahl, UCS climate scientist : “The reality is that there have always been tornadoes. There have always been hurricanes. There have always been wildfires.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Edil is both a climate scientist and environmental attorney working to advance decolonization for Puerto Rico and achieve environmental justice for Puerto Ricans. I recently had a chance to talk with the founder of PRÁ, Edil Sepúlveda Carlo. Edil provided answers for a few questions, which I have edited for clarity.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case. motion to intervene Oct. The Superior Court’s judgment was based on a June 2016 “Under Advisement Ruling” in which the court concluded that the potential chilling effect of disclosure did not overcome the presumption favoring disclosure.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Senate passed compromised legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. On August 7, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

believe that “most” scientists agree on global warming and only 20 percent know that more than 90 percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening. should take steps toward being carbon neutral by 2050 and should prioritize renewable energy over expanding fossil fuel exploration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

And the rigorous teaching of climate science does not inculcate anyone with anything except a greater understanding of the physical world and how humans are altering it. I’d bet a climate scientist would have been glad to make the short trip to talk to Senator Cirino. Source: Google maps.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley. Failure is not an option because I live here; I cannot just disconnect. This is personal.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Heat waves aren’t just uncomfortable, they’re also deadly to humans, and to animals.” – Nerilie Abram, a climate scientists at Australian National University. According to Reuters , that a draft of the legislation, prepared by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, was under ministerial consultation.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

Crucially, Uganda’s glaciers are disappearing faster than scientists can glean information from them about the country and continent’s climate past and future.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

The European Commission last week put out a plan that proposes replacing natural gas from any source in key sectors of their economy, dramatically expanding energy efficiency and home-grown renewable energy to get away from this dependency and volatile markets. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans said: “It is time we tackle our vulnerabilities and rapidly become more independent in our energy choices. Let's dash into renewable energy at lightning speed. Putin's war in Ukraine demonstrates the urgency of accelerating our clean energy transition.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Senate To Pass Climate, Energy Compromise Bill -- Evangelical Environmental Network Urges Communities To Educate Themselves On Dangers Of Ethylene Oxide Emissions; 2 PA Communities Affected; Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

LNG Exporters Emerge As Big Winners Of Europe Natural Gas Crisis; Price For LNG 10 Times Its Value A Year Ago -- The Guardian: ‘This Is A Fossil Fuel War’: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out -- PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0;

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