Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

Although the US government knew the risks of radiation to humans, many Navajo miners were still sent into mines with poor ventilation and safety regulations skirted. And with the fossil fuel-related pollution that comes with mining, climate change and air quality will be worsened as well for multiple communities in the region.

Radiation

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

For example, Callahan and Mankin (2025) demonstrate how climate models and economic damage functions can be used to calculate heat-related losses attributable to GHG emissions from certain fossil fuel companies products.

2009

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. Modeling work suggests that emissions from VCPs contribute more to secondary organic aerosol mass than fossil fuel sources in major urban areas (Image 3).[8] Image modified from [8].

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

How this section of the TSF was virtually handed over to the shale-gas industry for exploration and fossil-fuel development is beyond explanation. Running at over 2,000 feet in elevation in places, it is one of the highest trail complexes in the TSF. Traffic to, from the drilling pad, however, is not the extent of impact to the forest.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Both the supporters and opponents of SG research worry about fossil fuel interests pushing to develop and use SG, and to over-rely on it, to keep the fossil party going longer. The most surprising thing about the politics of SG has been the third group, or rather the absence of the third group: the non-barking dog.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

For years, IRIS assessments have helped shield EPA regulations from the chemical and fossil fuel industries efforts to strip our nation of environmental protections. Furthermore, the Trump administration nominated Aaron Szabo to serve as assistant administrator of EPAs Office of Air and Radiation.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Through our Science Hub for Climate Litigation, we’re providing research and expertise to inform legal cases in the United States and around the world that seek to hold Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other powerful fossil fuel companies and their allied organizations accountable for fraud and for climate damages.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 16, 2025

It also pointed to growing interest in solar radiation management , a hypothetical form of geoengineering that would artificially lower the planet’s temperatures — with many potential risks and uncertainties still to explore. Extreme heat is also a growing risk to financial markets and insurers’ assets, the report suggests.

2014

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez. Aaron Szabo has been nominated to be assistant secretary for Air and Radiation. The obvious goal is to plunder more public land and water for private profit for the fossil fuel and mining industries.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

However, the administrations definition of clean includes the use of fossil fuels, which will extend the timeline of fossil fuel extraction, endangering the health of those nearby and placing our planet in continued jeopardy. -- Petrochemical facilities , such as the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, rely on fossil fuels to operate.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

Zeldins unprecedented assault on the EPAs ability to deliver on its mission is entirely designed to prop up big polluters , including fossil fuel interests while the rest of us pay the price. Are you planning on taking EPAs Office of Air and Radiation back to the 1970s?

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

She’s President of AFGE Local 1236, one of the unions that represent workers in EPA Region 9 (California and 4 other Western states) and EPA’s National Center for Radiation Field Operations. “I A petition signed by more than 110,000 people called for a ban on fossil fuel advertising in the United Kingdom, and it led to a debate in parliament.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec. 17 Hearing On Chapter 105 Permit For Pocono Mountains Corporate Center North Warehouse In Monroe County [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. Muhlenberg Township Building, 210 George Street, Reading. Click Here to watch online. April 30-- Agenda Posted. April 30-- In-Person. Delaware River Basin Commission Public Input Session On Climate Resilience Plan. Liberty, New York.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

However, in some programs like air quality, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, radiation protection, storage tanks and others, Pennsylvania chose to adopt many federal regulations by reference. [So [A good example is surface coal mining where Pennsylvania has adopted specific laws and regulations regulating this activity.

Regulations

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

Radiation

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

There is also a very small impact of the CH 4 oxidation to CO 2 itself for any fossil-fuel derived methane. (a) In 2020, CO 2 was at ~410 parts per million, while CH 4 was around 1870 parts per <it>billion</it> (or 1.87 ppm, a factor of more than 200 smaller). W/m 2 for CH 4. References. Etminan, G. Myhre, E.J.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Rules relating to renewable and fossil fuel development on public lands and offshore. Litigation against carbon emitters and fossil fuel producers G. State climate and energy policy A. Renewable portfolio standards. Cap-and-trade systems C. California authority to regulate new vehicles D. Biodiversity and ecosystems E.

Law

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in … Continue reading How fast can we stop Earth from warming?

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

While this would not necessarily lead to a large, rapid release of radioactivity into the environment, it could result in a situation similar to that of Fukushima today, where damaged cores in the basements of the containment buildings continue to release radiation into the groundwater. How rapidly could this sequence of events begin?

Cooling

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Against the backdrop of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Salar de Atacama Mine radiates with a futuristic blue light—its cerulean pools glow like tessellated computer screens, a stark contrast to the muted landscape that surrounds them. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — January 17, 2022.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing.

Sea Level

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

16 TV’s O’Connor went around coral island to find origins of radiation (6). 4 Fossil-fuel preserver found in confused eco store (8). That’s one in the eye, archdeacon (4). 13 A-level physics comes in form that gives Saturn its place (5). 14 In taking the last of the Rolos, craving leads to rush of power (5). 19 Partial fan?

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The Altiplano plateau in western Bolivia has some of the world’s highest and most consistent levels of solar radiation, creating a high potential for solar photovoltaic power in the region, but structural challenges may prevent scaling. Photo credit: Anyisa / Alamy. By Santiago Espinoza. Advantageous and encouraging.

Solar Power

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

The NASA account continued that “any significant change in the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth can change the climate” though it stopped short of naming humans— and a few handfuls of large corporate emitters —as the culprit. But that doesn’t mean the sun is causing climate change.”

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

. -- Better Path Coalition : On Demand: Brown Bag Briefing By Justi Nobel On His New Book Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret And the Grassroots Fight To Stop It NewsClips This Week: -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, (..)

Radiation

Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

The problem of the commercial utilization, for the production of power, of the energy of solar radiation, the wind and other intermittent natural sources is a double one,” he wrote. That’s because many countries are reducing their reliance on fossil fuels by boosting renewable-energy output, whether solar, wind or hydro.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Hari Chohan , nuclear radiation analyst, UK Atomic Energy Authority. Hari Chohan is a nuclear radiation analyst, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Hari Chohan is a nuclear radiation analyst, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Another relevant area in which many physicists work is nuclear energy, both fission and fusion.

Radiation

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The ocean has already absorbed 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases and 26% of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans burning fossil fuels. Commercial shipping’s reliance on energy-dense but dirty fossil fuels generates approximately one billion metric tonnes of GHGs every year, as well as black carbon and soot.

Ocean

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. In the Arctic this has led to regional warming four times faster than the global average.

Ocean

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gleick claims they did not claim fossil fuels were scarce in the 1970s, and points to a book published in 2003 where Holdren said, “What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy, but that we are running out of environment…” But I make this exact point in Apocalypse Never. Why else use it?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

CO 2 is at about 410 parts per million by volume (ppm) in the air, about 50% higher than before the start of large-scale fossil-fuel use. For other gases, the GWP depends on two different properties of the gas: how strongly it absorbs infrared radiation; and how long it stays in the atmosphere after it is emitted.

Atmosphere

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. Taking a national average of 25.1

Electricity

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Based on the lifetime of currently operating fossil fuel power plants and planned plants, it is highly likely global warming will exceed 1.5°C 2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? C according to projections.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

Government