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Earth Day 2024 Steps Up Actions To Save The Planet

April 25, 2024 admin 0 Comments air quality, climate change, Earth Day, ecosystems

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:39:15 +0000

The world is in the midst of drastic environmental changes — more than any activist feared when Earth Day was first commemorated. Earth Day 2024 is an opportunity for communities to come together to celebrate the world on which we live. First held on April 22, 1970 as part of … [continued]

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Electrify Everything Everywhere All At Once – India Edition Transcript

April 18, 2024 admin 0 Comments air quality, Aviation, batteries, bicycles, biofuels, boats, buildings, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric bikes, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, electrify everything, Energy, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, ev batteries, green economy, green jobs, grid, grid storage, heat pumps, hydrogen, India, india solar power, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, motorcycles + scooters, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:28:24 +0000

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. … [continued]

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Car Exhaust & Alzheimer’s — Thank You, Mickey Mouse

April 17, 2024 admin 0 Comments air quality, clean transport, electric car benefits, Electric vehicles, ev benefits, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:11:37 +0000

New research from Australian and Singaporean scientists have found a link between car exhaust and Alzheimer’s. It was even on the mainstream news last night. This opens up a whole new argument in favour of the uptake of electric vehicles and the removal of fossil fuels. It has long been … [continued]

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Toxic Chemical Releases Have Declined 21% In 10 Years In USA

March 25, 2024 admin air quality, EPA, Fossil Fuels, pfas, press releases, research, SCIENCE, us environmental protection agency (epa)

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:04:53 +0000

Today, the U.S. EPA released its 2022 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis showing that environmental releases of TRI chemicals from facilities covered by the program were 21% lower in 2022 compared to 2013. This includes a 26% decrease in air releases. During this 10-year period, releases from manufacturing facilities … [continued]

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India’s Report Card Against Short List Of Climate Actions Is Better Than Most Realize

March 19, 2024 admin air quality, biofuels, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, hydroelectric, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, India, india solar power, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, motorcycles + scooters, natural gas, nuclear energy, Oil, policy & politics, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, Smart Grid, Solar energy, subsidies, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:59:51 +0000

For several years I’ve been iterating The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. The work of organizations like Mark Z. Jacobson’s Stanford team around energy and Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in different ways, but also indigestible to most people. The short list really is that. It’s … [continued]

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Fossil Fuel Exec Fails To Accept Blame For Climate Crisis, Cites Lack Of Cost Transparency Instead

March 8, 2024 admin air quality, carbon emissions, climate change, exxonmobil, Fossil Fuels, renewable energy

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:30:41 +0000

Who is to blame that the world is off track to meet its climate goals? A major fossil fuel company … [continued]

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USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

March 4, 2024 admin air quality, bicycles, boats, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, investment, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, usa, waste reduction, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 17:01:14 +0000

For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation … [continued]

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The Particulars of PM 2.5 — Why Particulate Matter … Matters.

February 13, 2024 admin air quality, climate change, fine particulates (pm 2.5), pm 2.5, pm2.5, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 01:33:43 +0000

PM 2.5 (n.): Air pollution consisting of particles less than 2.5 microns across New Delhi has the most polluted air on … [continued]

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Proposed European Carbon Dioxide Pipelines & Terminals Would Endanger Tens Of Millions

February 13, 2024 admin air quality, Carbon Capture, carbon capture (ccs), carbon emissions, climate change, Coal, Energy, EU, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, HEALTH, investment, natural gas, Oil, Pipeline, policy & politics, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:15:44 +0000

In 2020, a bucolic part of western Mississippi, the tiny village of Satartia, experienced a terrifying disaster. About 300 people … [continued]

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A New Push for Clean Cooking Solutions

February 12, 2024 admin africa, air quality, clean cooking, clean cookstoves, HEALTH

Credit to Author: Otto Gunderson| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:04:23 +0000

With approximately 950 million people in Africa still reliant on traditional cooking methods, predominantly wood and charcoal, there is a … [continued]

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