Google Changed Emission Calculations, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner [1]
"Last month the tech giant shifted its algorithm to exclude a crucial component of the overall greenhouse gas impact of air travel."
Source: Earther [2], 08/26/2022
"Last month the tech giant shifted its algorithm to exclude a crucial component of the overall greenhouse gas impact of air travel."
"The White House put forth a policy guidance Thursday requiring all federally funded research to be made available to the public for free upon publication by 2026."
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"It was the height of summer and Pastor Farris Wilks was warning that if we didn’t all stop sinning, God was going to scorch the Earth and melt the polar ice caps."
"Environmental groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to close a gaping loophole in the agency’s rules regulating the management of coal ash dumps that have leached toxic pollutants into rivers and lakes across the country."
"The Department of the Interior on Thursday announced a $560 million grant to 24 states to start plugging up and reclaiming abandoned oil and gas wells."
"What’s considered officially “dangerous heat” in coming decades will likely hit much of the world at least three times more often as climate change worsens, according to a new study."
"For years, as California has moved ahead with ambitious clean-air regulations, the state has had to prod the auto industry to go along. Now, in the push to electrify the nation’s car fleet, it is California that is keeping up with automakers."
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Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/google-changed-emission-calculations-making-air-travel-look-cleaner
[2] https://gizmodo.com/google-flights-air-travel-emissions-greenhouse-climate-1849458112
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wh-moves-make-all-federally-funded-research-public-free-2026
[4] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3616136-white-house-moves-to-make-all-federally-funded-research-available-to-public-for-free-by-2026/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-russia-burns-gas-europes-energy-bills-rocket
[6] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62652133
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[8] https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33j/fracking-farris-dan-wilks-prageru-climate-crisis-denial-shapiro
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/earthjustice-suing-epa-over-coal-ash-dumps-which-pollute-groundwater
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[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/doi-grants-560-million-24-states-plug-10000-orphaned-wells
[12] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3615795-interior-grants-560-million-across-24-states-to-plug-more-than-10000-orphaned-wells/
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[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-ev-mandate-finds-receptive-auto-industry
[16] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/business/energy-environment/electric-vehicles-automakers.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bird-flu-kills-700-black-vultures-animal-sanctuary
[18] https://apnews.com/article/health-georgia-animals-flu-birds-5056750246219bee9c501e294bf1c437
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/many-one-six-us-tree-species-threatened-extinction
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