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LA Fires and the Climate Connection

Legal Planet

Building back electric, not gas. In many parts of California, we have designed our homes, neighborhoods, infrastructure, and insurance system for a bygone era and a bygone climate. We need to talk about rebuilding in different places. Download as PDF

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Why Energy Conservation Will Remain Crucial

Legal Planet

In the end, you might use more electricity, not less. An article last year in the science journal Nature estimated that “with solar energy accounting for 25 to 80% of the electricity mix, land occupation [ranges] from 0.5 In terms of transportation, reducing vehicle weight will reduce the power draw for electric vehicles.

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The Dirty Truth Behind a Feel-Good Energy Story

Legal Planet

Although NRG Energy as a company does generate some electricity using some renewable sources like solar and wind, more than 80% of its fuel mix is from fossil fuels, according to a 2023 analysis of the top 47 investor-owned utilities. Reason # 4 is that all jet travel is environmentally damaging. for the Portland Thorns.

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Paddlewheel-like molecules push sodium ions through next-generation battery

Physics World

This finding, by researchers at Duke University in the US, could aid the development of next-generation batteries with a wide range of applications, including data storage centres, thin smart phones and light electric vehicles. Lithium-ion batteries are today’s energy source of choice in portable electronics and electric vehicles.

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Speaking Truth to Corporate Power

Legal Planet

Let me close with a story told by one scientist who worked for Exxon in the 1980s: Back in 1980, there was a guy working for Exxon and he was one of the inventors of the lithium battery, which electric cars now use. They could have easily built huge factories to make lithium batteries to facilitate the transition to electric cars.

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Environmental privilege: How recovery and rebuilding after climate disasters favors the wealthy

Frontiers

Gould is professor of sociology and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College (CUNY), and professor of sociology, and earth and environmental sciences at CUNY Graduate Center. His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development. It did not.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Today, he is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Napoleon Nelson with the Champion of the Environment Award for his commitment to environmental justice and green technologies in Philadelphia and across the state.