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July 29, 2014
July 29, 2014
Guest Author: Robert Fares, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at the University Texas at Austin This commentary originally appeared on Scientific America's Plugged In blog. A vital factor affecting the economics of any energy source is transportation: where is the fuel extracted, where…
July 29, 2014
Restoration Council approves RESTORE process for oil spill funds By Valerie Garman, The News Herald (Panama City, Fla.). July 28, 2014. “A group tasked with paving the way for allocating billions of dollars…” ( read more ) Impact of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on coral is deeper and broader…
By Guest Author by Susannah Harris, 2014 Climate Corps Fellow I received quizzical looks from family and friends when I told them I was working on water efficiency projects at Verizon this summer. They paused, racking their brains about where water is used within the telecommunications…
July 29, 2014
By Jorge Madrid Map from the LASER Atlas showing temperature rise projections in Los Angeles You may be wondering – as I was before we started a project with the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation over a year ago – “what the heck does Big Data have to do with climate change?” To start,…
By Diane Munns The Official CTBTO Flickr The annual summer meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is a meeting of the minds like no other. Utility companies, regulators, staff, advocates, and trade press from around the country gather to discuss emerging…
By Jorge Madrid You may be wondering – as I was before we started a project with the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation over a year ago – “what the heck does Big Data have to do with climate change?” To start, here’s a piece from Climate Central that exemplifies the new power of big data. …
By Richard Denison Richard Denison, Ph.D. , is a Lead Senior Scientist. It’s been a ridiculously long road to get here, because of the delay tactics of the chemical industry. But yesterday a panel of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) fully backed the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP)…
July 29, 2014
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By Steven Hamburg Throughout history, maps have played a critical role in shaping our decisions—helping us determine where we are going and how we are going to get there. Now, we’re using them to define a way to address climate change. Environmental Defense Fund and Google Earth Outreach have…
By Jessica D’Itri It’s 9 a.m. and I’m on my way to my internship at EPA. I’m sweating through my clothes, my hair is plastered to my neck, and mascara is pooling under my eyes. The summertime heat and D.C.’s swampy humidity are bad enough, but an extra dose of suffering comes from the…
By André Villaseñor Did you know up to 60 percent of your body is made of water? Recently, I thought about water quite a bit while my daughters and I were camping in Joshua Tree National Park. To survive three days in the desert, we brought 15 gallons of water. We were able to thrive […]
By Isabella Bennett Last month’s pollinator protection week (June 16-22) got my mind buzzing, thinking about popular attitudes toward bees and other pollinators. Sadly, too many people fear, rather than appreciate, our busy little friends. Let me give you an example. One spring afternoon, my…
By Amanda Hong Consider this shocking fact – a whopping 40% of food produced in the U.S. goes to waste. Though we preach waste reduction in my household, we contribute to that percentage of waste. My partner purchased a box of mangoes last week. We love mangoes, but were only able to enjoy a few…
By Charlie Howland I work on an EPA initiative called RE-Powering America’s Land, which encourages renewable energy development on contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites. I was excited to learn that the switch was recently flipped at the 10 megawatt Maywood Solar Farm on 45 acres in…