Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
You don’t have to look beyond the front pages of newspapers , or beyond rooftops in your neighborhood to know that we are in the midst of a clean energy revolution, with renewable energy technologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability. These technologies promise to reduce energy cost burdens for households, as well as reduce climate- and health-harming pollution.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Let’s start this one with some good news: the transition toward clean freight is picking up speed. Over the past few years, we’ve started to see more and more zero-emission commercial trucks, delivery vans, and buses hit the road. The much-needed evolution of our on-road freight system to one that’s cleaner and more equitable is gaining momentum – and not a moment too soon.
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Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
An African Union ruling finds that parts of a Congo national park should be returned to the Batwa people, who were evicted decades ago. Advocates say the ruling must be implemented and that the Batwa will need support to protect the park’s rare gorillas and other wildlife.
Cleannovate
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
I called a connection who would link me up with a unique butcher – one who sells beef fat. The next day, I linked up with him, bought some meat then he led me to a backstreet to some ladies who sold beef fat. They named their price and I thought it was a good bargain so we struck a deal. I bought 5kg of white beef fat most of which is derived from around the organs like kidneys.
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
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
As a six-year investigation into the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica wraps up, the scientists involved are pessimistic for the future of this glacier and the consequences for sea level rise
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This blog was co-authored with UCS China Analyst Robert Rust. Open-source estimates of China’s past fissile material production indicate that China does not have enough plutonium to make the more than 1,000 nuclear warheads the Pentagon claims China will deploy by 2035. The extra plutonium needed to produce new weapons, the Pentagon says, will come from China’s new fast breeder reactors , a type of nuclear reactor that produces more plutonium than the uranium and plutonium it consumes for fuel.
Environmental Professionals Connection brings together the best content for environmental professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Cleannovate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Potato chips colour our parties. They are the go-to meal when we just want that fast filling, sumptuous and easy to fix snack. A few of us like to cook potatoes with the skin. But for those of us who peel them, where do we dispose of these wastes? Well, there are a few places where peels could find use. Composting them helps return their nutrients back to the soil… Incorporating them into animal feeds helps enrich livestock diets.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus spread from animals to humans at the Huanan seafood market
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Michigan, along with many other states, is set to receive significant funding under the federal Inflation Reduction Act’s Solar for All program (more than $156 million for Michigan specifically). With these funds the state can dramatically increase community and household access to the benefits of solar energy. The program requires that participating low-income households see a minimum of 20% savings in their electricity bills —but it’s important for Michigan officials to get the details right i
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
A surge of pollen in spring can affect the formation of clouds and rainfall, according to a new study. The authors say that, as the planet warms, pollen counts are expected to grow, potentially giving rise to more springtime rainfall.
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.
Cleannovate
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
You sow those seeds and after 3 months, 6 months or a year, you get a bumper harvest. “I’m smiling all the way to the bank,” you say. But is this all you can reap from your crops? After making money from the produce, what about converting the waste into valuable products to make more money? UPCYCLING Upcycling is about taking what’s considered as not valuable and converting it into what’s valuable.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low gravity, and may pose a threat to astronauts
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Climate litigation is rapidly expanding. As cases multiply, they increasingly depend on rigorous, interdisciplinary research to provide the evidence needed to hold governments, corporations, and other actors accountable for their role in the climate crisis, and to inform meaningful climate action. At the heart of this effort lies an important opportunity for scientists—one that requires greater involvement from experts across fields such as climate science, health, economics, and social sciences
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The world is set to install a third more solar capacity this year than it did in 2023, surpassing forecasts by both industry experts and independent analysts.
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.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
North America and Southern Africa, in particular, may endure longer dry spells than water managers expect, but research shows rising emissions magnifying both wet and dry extremes. By Bob Berwyn Droughts in the coming decades could be longer than projected by current climate models, a new study published Wednesday in Nature warns.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Making hydrogen from seawater can be tricky because the salt is corrosive and the process can create toxic chlorine gas – new electrodes can split ocean water to make the clean fuel more easily
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Report finds that Highway 413 would contaminate streams and rivers within the Humber River, Etobicoke Creek, and the Credit River watersheds and destroy large areas of forest, meadow, river and wetland habitat. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – A new report released today, Concrete Consequences: How Highway 413 would put GTA watersheds at risk , highlights alarming findings about the proposed Highway 413, s
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Brazilian officials say they have nearly rid Indigenous Yanomami territory in the northern Amazon of the thousands of miners who had been operating illegally in the region.
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Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
A new science briefing from an international research team can’t rule out some of the worst-case sea level rise scenarios, including six feet by 2100. By Bob Berwyn After six years of probing, poking and sampling a Florida-sized chunk of ice in West Antarctica with submarines, satellites and drills, scientists with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration said Thursday that a worst-case meltdown scenario still can’t be ruled out, since emissions of climate-heating greenhouse gases cont
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The average surface temperature varied more widely and was even hotter than previously thought during much of the past 500 million years, according to the most rigorous study so far
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Statement from Rebecca Kolarich, Water Program Manager, Environmental Defence Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We’re thrilled that Scugog council voted against (4-2) an ill-conceived MZO that would have fast-tracked development on a significant wetland. This was a win for Lake Scugog and the engaged local community that rallied to block Avenu Properties’ MZO request.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
On May 24, 2024, Helen Dragonette, a resident near the town of Cyclone in Keating Township, McKean County filed a complaint with the Department of Environmental Protection about methane in her water well, saying she had a “video of their water catching fire when exposed to a flame.” “The Department visited the site on May 31, 2024 to conduct an interview with the property owner and to check for gas.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
For years, educators and parents often avoided the subject. But that is starting to change, as therapists urge parents to listen to their kids and help them understand that their fears are normal. By Nina Dietz At 21, Olivia Vesovich has already put more on the line for the climate fight than most people, regardless of age. In 2020, Vesovich was just 16 and wrapping up her sophomore year of high school when she decided to sacrifice her privacy and step onto the national stage as one of the 16 yo
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Even though the strange behaviour we observe in the quantum realm isn’t part of our daily lives, simulations suggest it is likely our reality could be one of the many worlds in a quantum multiverse
The Applied Ecologist
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
This blog post is also available in German here. Dominik Poniatowski and colleagues describe how they evaluated the environmental drivers of species richness and biomass of grasshoppers in grasslands, comparing this between nature reserves and intensively-used agriculture landscape. Grassland exhibiting low land-use intensity is considered a hotspot of biodiversity in Central Europe.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Del-Chesco United For Pipeline Safety says Pennsylvania communities through which Energy Transfer’s Mariner East natural gas liquids pipeline and many other pipelines pass are at the same “unmitigated risk” of unsecured, aboveground pipeline valves and explosion hazards as the communities now affected by Energy Transfer’s pipeline explosion in Texas.
National Law Center
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The Wetland Conservation provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985, known colloquially as “Swampbuster,” introduced a new program to promote. The post When Wetlands Go Dry: Prior Converted Cropland under Swampbuster and the CWA appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
A quantum computing protocol makes it possible to extract energy from seemingly empty space, teleport it to a new location, then store it for later use
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Last week in Illinois, a carbon capture project was found to be leaking. Carbon capture is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from where it is being released, such as a power plant or refinery. Though most of the carbon being captured is used to pump out more oil, small amounts are being stored underground. In this case, the CO 2 must be compressed and liquified, so that it can be transported through pipelines to injection wells.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
On September 17, 2024, DEP conducted an inspection of the Carpentertown Coal & Coke 25 conventional well in Pine Township, Armstrong County owned by Murphy Production, Inc. in response to a complaint to the PA Emergency Management Agency who forwarded it to DEP. The report said a 2,000 gallon wastewater storage tank “had been struck by bullets and was leaking produced fluids onto the ground.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
A new study finds that the state should replenish groundwater aquifers to sustain agriculture. By Caroline Marshall Reinhart A new University of California Riverside study on California agriculture and climate proposes a plan for new water capture, storage and distribution systems throughout California that will sustain agriculture and keep up with climate trajectories.
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against it
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Statement by Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis confirms that a cap on emissions from the oil and gas industry is crucial to achieve Canada’s climate commitments. Today’s report from the Canadian Climate Institute provides an early estimate of Canada’s national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2023.
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