Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. In the letter, the climate scientists stress that the risk of an AMOC collapse due to climate change has been greatly underestimated according to new observational evidence.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Around the world, researchers are working on a range of projects that aim to enhance corals’ resistance to marine heat waves. In a promising sign, a U.K. team recently became the first to quantify an uptick in heat tolerance among adult corals selectively bred for the trait.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In what could turn out to be another loss for environmental protection in the Supreme Court, the Court is about to decide a major case about the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County , has important implications for issues such as whether NEPA covers climate change impacts.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

It took Hurricane Helene just three days to travel from the overly warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the mountains of North Carolina, causing incredible damage and loss of life. Hurricane Milton also moved fast, intensifying from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane in a single day, before hitting Florida with incredible winds, tornados and flooding.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Energy storage, or the storing of electricity for later use on the power grid, plays an important role in the clean energy transition. Many states have established targets or goals for deploying increased amounts of storage on the grid. Illinois is currently considering policy proposals to establish a statewide energy storage target. To inform the amount of storage the state should seek, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) conducted a modeling analysis of the Illinois power system to assess

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As part of a $7 billion investment in hydrogen, the U.S. Department of Energy is committed to building a network of hydrogen facilities and pipelines centered in southeast Pennsylvania. Critics are questioning the project’s expense and its net savings in carbon emissions.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Fifty-two years. 26 Congresses. 10 U.S. presidents. That’s how long Ocean Conservancy has been advancing policies that secure a healthy ocean and a thriving planet. Through political shifts and economic tides, the organization has stayed the course. Protecting our blue planet isn’t just a matter of politics; it is our duty—to ourselves, to future generations and to the planet we call home.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To deliver 1.5 million homes by 2031, governments need to eliminate minimum parking requirements, reform building codes and legalize six-storey apartments on the avenues and major streets in existing neighbourhoods throughout Ontario. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – The failure to reform land use planning laws, the building code, tax rules, and service charges for existing neighborhoods is obstructing the

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Light from cars, homes, and street lamps may be keeping bees up at night, according to a new study.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Our last post explained the background of the Seven Counties NEPA case, which is currently pending in the Supreme Court. Today, we discuss the radical arguments that have been made in the case and why they should be rejected. NEPA requires that agencies consider the environmental effects of their projects, but the petitioners raise hairsplitting arguments to exclude obvious effects due to technicalities.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and losses to tourism and fishing

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson – perhaps because they often have more straightforward themes and simpler structure

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists are attending the U.N. climate negotiations now underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, according to a tally by a coalition of climate groups.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This is the final installment in our series of posts about the causation issue under NEPA. In our previous post, we laid out NEPA’s purposes and why analogies to tort law can misfire because that area of law has very different purposes. Today, building on our recent working paper , we explain the functional approach to causation that we believe courts should apply.

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Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The multiverse offers no escape from our reality—which might be a very good thing

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Ad Crable Do you smell it?” Laurie Barr yelled as she tromped through an overgrown bottomland between remote wooded mountains in state game lands northeast of State College, PA. She had whiffed the rotten-egg smell of hydrogen sulfide and was soon at the foot of a tire-size round puddle of water seeping onto the surface. The pool was audibly burping bubbles.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

New research shows that glaciers near active volcanoes flow faster than other glaciers. The findings suggest it would be possible to predict volcanic eruptions by tracking the speed of glaciers.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Extreme weather and a growing population is driving a food security crisis. What can we do to break the vicious cycle of carbon emissions, climate change and soaring food costs – or is it already too late?

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Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital

As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the November 16 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 16 [PaEN] -- DEP published notices in the November 16 PA Bulletin extending these Water Quality and Waste General Permits-- -- Oil & Gas General Permit For Erosion & Sedimentation [ESCGP-3] For 2 Months -- General Permit For Beneficial Use Of Biosolids By Land Application [PAG-08] Until New General Permit Is Fi

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NRDC

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Golden State Natural Resources’ draft environmental impact report spells danger for forests, climate, and communities

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Antimicrobial resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, yet the pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up. U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On November 12, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced the investment of $79.4 million in grants to support 307 projects across Pennsylvania, aimed at expanding recreational opportunities, conserving natural spaces, and revitalizing communities. These grants will support a wide range of projects, including improving local parks, expanding trails and river access points, and creating more green space in local communities.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Texas-based scientist warns people who care about climate change and the energy transition against despair—and looks to examples from the Bible. By Dan Gearino For people involved with research and advocacy about climate change, the results of last week’s presidential election sting.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Governments and companies almost never take action when satellites alert them about large methane leaks coming from oil and gas infrastructure

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

On November 12, Moms Clean Air Force , Environmental Health Project , and Clean Air Council held a press conference at the Pennsylvania State Capitol calling on state leaders to safeguard Pennsylvanians from the impacts of a fossil fuel and plastic industry buildout. The groups said existing facilities are already sickening people in local neighborhoods and heating the planet with their pollution.

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Earthava

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The post Plastic Pollution and Climate Change: Understanding Their Interconnected Impact on Our Planet appeared first on Earthava. Plastic pollution poses a significant threat not only to ecosystems but also to the climate. Plastic waste contributes to climate change by releasing greenhouse gases during its production, degradation, and incineration.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most assessments of global warming use 1850-1900 as a baseline, but researchers have now established a new pre-industrial reference by using Antarctic ice cores to estimate the average temperature before 1700

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today’s cannabis plant is highly cultivated and incredibly potent.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On November 12, the Environmental Hearing Board issued a temporary supersedeas to stop the opening of the Catalyst Energy, Inc. oil and gas wastewater injection well near the town of Cyclone in Keating Township, McKean County until the Board can hold a hearing on the full supersedeas request by appealants. The order prohibits the company from disposing of fluids at the well and it may not engage in any earth disturbance activities.

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