Environment
Ambitious Earth Day target: Biden announces 50% emissions cut
April 22, 2021“It’s a massive investment in people and recognition that climate change is about human beings,” according to White House climate advisor Gina McCarthy.
Read moreUnions, lawmakers, Biden administration unite on carbon capture as a job creator
April 20, 2021Absent: Any mention of the Green New Deal.
Read moreNew satellite network to locate and monitor methane super-emitters
April 16, 2021Between 2016 and 2018, using airplane-based instruments, scientists found 600 "super-emitters" were to blame for more than one-third of the state's methane pollution.
Read moreCourt deals final blow to Trump era plan to drill in the Atlantic
April 15, 2021"We call on President Biden to keep his promise: a full and complete ban on fracking and fossil fuel extraction on public lands. Full stop."
Read moreRobot finds more warm water beneath Antarctica’s doomsday glacier
April 14, 2021"The good news is that we are now, for the first time, collecting data that will enable us to model the dynamics of Thwaite's glacier."
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