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Era of Fossil Fuel Power Plants Rapidly Receding: Ending Life Expectancy [1]

"What if President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to get to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035 turns out to involve not radical disruption but a smooth transition?" "New research shows that most fossil fuel plants will have reached the end of their expected lives by 2035, making it easier to envision Joe Biden’s climate plan."

 

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Technology [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [7], 12/17/2020
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December 15, 2020 to December 17, 2020

Covering the Environment Using Google Tools for Journalists [8]

Join Google News Labs’ Maggie Farley for a quick tour of Google’s new tools for journalists, with a particular focus on environmental journalism. Learn how to find and analyze data, then learn how to tell stories using clear, powerful data visualization tools. Noon-12:30 p.m. ET each day. Sponsored by SEJ and The Resilience Media Project of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

SEJ Regional Conferences [9]
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Public [5]
Topics on the Beat: 
Journalism & Media [10]
Technology [4]

US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair - GAO Report [11]

"The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to undetected bad air quality from events like wildfires to industrial pollution, the investigative arm of Congress said on Monday."

Air [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [17], 12/08/2020
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Climate Change Policy Likely To Permeate Executive Under Biden [18]

What will climate change policy look like under a Biden administration? If nothing else, it appears it will be broadly based across a wide range of executive branch operations. This week’s TipSheet walks you through the top 10 federal departments, agencies and spending centers and how they will pivot to focus on global warming. 

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TipSheet [19]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [20]
Air [12]
Chemicals [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [23]
Forests [24]
Government [25]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Military [26]
Natural Resources [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [28]
Policy [29]
Pollution [16]
Science [30]
Technology [4]
Transportation [31]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
International [32]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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December 9, 2020

Tradeoffs & Transitions: Exploring Outcomes for U.S. Energy Infrastructure [33]

The Energy Institute at University of Texas at Austin hosts this discussion with Dr. Carey King, Assistant Director of the Energy Institute and Asher Price, reporter for the Austin-American Statesman and 2019 UT Energy Journalism Fellow, on the future of energy infrastructure policy and the prospect for these new measures in the changing landscape of the federal government. Noon-1:00 p.m.

Other Events [34]
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Public [5]
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Technology [4]

"Singapore Becomes First Country To Approve Lab-Grown Meat" [35]

"Singapore has granted San Francisco start-up Eat Just Inc. regulatory approval to sell its laboratory-grown chicken in the city-state -- the world's first government to allow the sale of cultured meat."

Food [36]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [4]
Public [5]
International [32]
Source: CNN [37], 12/03/2020
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"Air Monitors Routinely Miss Pollution - Even Refinery Explosions" [38]

Standard methods of monitoring air pollution are missing major pollution incidents.

Air [12]
Pollution [16]
Science [30]
Technology [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [39], 12/02/2020
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"A Desert City Tries to Save Itself With Rain" [40]

"Tucson, Arizona, is giving residents financial incentives to harvest their rainwater as the desert city works to become carbon neutral by 2030."

Technology [4]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Source: Bloomberg CityLab [43], 11/24/2020
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"China and Japan Race to Dominate Future of High-Speed Rail" [44]

"Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultra-fast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential."

Economy & Business [22]
Technology [4]
Transportation [31]
Public [5]
International [32]
Source: Bloomberg Green [45], 11/24/2020
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"NASA Satellite To Measure Global Sea Level Rise" [46]

"A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans."

Climate Change [2]
Science [30]
Technology [4]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NPR [47], 11/20/2020
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