Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While industry tried to paint hydrogen combustion engines as a “bridge” technology to hydrogen fuel cells, their own presentations undermined that very point—instead, this path is a clear dead end. Regardless of the rule’s stringency, however, it’s clear that hydrogen combustion is a dead-end technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But in the long-term, the jury is still out, and clean energy technologies such as long-duration energy storage could play a major role in meeting grid reliability needs if we accredit gas capacity more accurately.) But for this analysis, there was one key difference: we decreased the capacity credit for coal and gas plants from 95% to 80%.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Achieving climate goals requires significant investments in clean energy, transportation, and other climate technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere. However, as we work toward an equitable climate transition, climate infrastructure investments need to be envisioned in a more expansive way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

The cost of other energy technologies matters as well. In its central decarbonization scenario, no new nuclear plants were built, indicating that its more cost-effective to utilize other zero-emission technologies. Second, as I mentioned earlier, the cost of other clean energy technologies matters too. There are three reasons.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On February 25, the Department of Environmental Protection posted environmental testing results from the SPS Technologies fire in Montgomery County online today. SPS Technologies is a manufacturing company that produces fasteners and other materials for the aviation industry. Visit DEPs SPS Technologies webpage for more information.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

over the existing technology. Reusing depleted oil and gas wells would allow operators to access geothermal heat in hot rock formations underground, eliminating upfront costs of drilling new wells and potentially making the technology more appealing to industry, the scientists said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Heres a taste, from US projects, technologies, electrons, and investment, to happenings in the world as a whole. Overall, solar was one of the top targets for investment in 2024 in clean technology manufacturing and deployment. As it turns out, 2024 has provided a whole lot of clean energy progress as fodder for that stock-taking.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The PA Association of Environmental Professionals will host a March 18 webinar providing an overview of emerging PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' treatment technologies starting at Noon. The material will include the development state of each technology and some of the advantages and challenges for each.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

The technology to enable widescale electrification has grown at impressive rates over a short amount of time, as our new report shows. We can achieve most of the shift we need with technologies that are available and economically feasible right now. AAS: How feasible is it to electrify truck fleets?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

By examining possible trajectories for global economic development, technology adoption, and policy actions, the driving forces behind emissions, these scenarios help us assess a range of potential climate futures. levels of cooperation or competition among countries, technology adoption, and inequality) in terms of radiative forcing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Revolutionizing the supply chain: Cutting-edge strategies and technologies for food waste reduction. Bioresource Technology Reports, 29, 102047. Younis, K., & Yousuf, O. link] Abstract Food waste has significant environmental, economic, and social impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Another example of these tactics emerged in 2016 when UCS was issued a subpoena by then-Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Lamar Smith, demanding our communications with state attorneys general and other nonprofits related to climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

Achieving these goals will take innovation —the development, application, diffusion, and utilization of new technologies and management practices. Water innovation can involve new treatment, reuse, and resource recovery technologies, including technologies that incorporate natural infrastructure. municipal wastewater sector.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Assessing national technological advantage in circular economy innovations for the textile and leather sectors: A patent-based analysis. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 114. link] Abstract This paper aims to measure and monitor countries?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, the current approach is neither technology agnostic nor does it reflect that Ontarios peak demand is a maximum of six hours in any 24-hour cycle in both winter and summer.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 1, 2023

Global technology company Siemens predicts that the market for wireless EV charging in Europe and North America will reach $2 billion by 2028. The post Expect $264B of Investment in Electric Vehicle Charging by 2030 appeared first on Environment+Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 24, 2022

The IoT, or internet of things sector describes physical objects embedded with technology such as sensors, computers, and software that allow data about them to be collected and communicated. The post IoT in Smart Cities Market To More Than Double By 2026, Says MarketsandMarkets appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossil fuels are much more recent. Persian experts were sent by Genghis Khan to establish the technology in China.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2021

Center for Science and Democracy Director Andrew Rosenberg summarizes the testimony he and his colleagues provided to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe. Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. Read more on E360 →

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 12, 2023

The company's cloud-based smarty city technology will help Atlanta's Department of Public Works implement sustainable operations for its existing fleet.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 22, 2023

The money will help enhance sustainable technology at its new $3 billion facility expected to open next year.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For more than 50 years, we have pioneered new policies and ushered in new technologies to clean our air and protect our climate. Meanwhile, CARB staff is proposing several amendments that will update the program without undermining its fundamental features. The Board should adopt these proposals. But it’s never easy.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Technologies are emerging that promise to decarbonize these problem industries, but analysts warn that big challenges remain before the processes can be cleaned up. The production of steel, cement, and ammonia together emit about one-fifth of all human-caused CO2. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 25, 2021

But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play a key role in tackling climate change. Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 25, 2023

When Dow and X-energy inked an agreement to develop an advanced nuclear reactor at one of Dow’s sites along the Gulf Coast, it was a big deal – a technology the two will license to other industrial customers.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Now, companies hope to extract lithium — a key metal for electric vehicle batteries — from its underground brines using technologies they say could reduce mining’s carbon emissions and water use. The Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas was once a major oil producer. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

But while the scoping plan talks a lot about the low carbon technologies we need, it also should be clearer about the implications for the technologies we are leaving behind, so everyone can plan for what comes next. What is a petroleum phaseout plan and why does California need one?

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 5, 2023

Building on multibillion-dollar capital investments in decarbonization projects, ADNOC is collaborating with international partners and stakeholders throughout the energy value chain on technology, best practices, and policy to support and advance global decarbonization operations.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The program seeks to slash prices, enhance technology development for the renewable energy source. The post DOE Seeks to Tap Into US’s Geothermal Energy Potential appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

Just like short-duration energy storage, long-duration energy storage technologies come in many forms and chemistries. Because long-duration energy storage is gaining a lot of recent attention , the landscape of technologies is constantly changing. There are tradeoffs with different technologies. Yes and no.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Air Company, a carbon technology company that creates carbon-negative alcohols and fuels from Carbon Dioxide (CO2), has launched its Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) made from captured CO2. The post Air Company Launches Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made from Captured CO2 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

In the rush to integrate artificial intelligence into the economy, fast-moving information technology companies are running into a problem: slow-moving electric utilities. In more ways than one, the electricity supply so vital to running a data center simply doesnt respond the way Silicon Valley and big investors want.

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Yale E360

JUNE 7, 2022

Some analysts see the technology as a necessary tool in reducing emissions, but others say it simply perpetuates the burning of fossil fuels. Long discussed but rarely used, carbon capture and storage projects — which bury waste CO2 underground — are on the rise globally. Read more on E360 ?.

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