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Living Closer to Oil and Gas Drilling Linked to Higher Risk of Pregnancy Complications, New Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

“So, it’s this really close range where we are seeing a potential impact right on women’s health.”. The study , published in International Journal of Epidemiology in December 2021, looked at nearly 3 million births in the state of Texas over the course of 13 years between 1996 and 2009. May 27, 2020. Justin Hamel ©2020.

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

The scientist also responded to questions from his lawyer about “ Climategate ,” a 2009 global media frenzy touched off by the release of hacked emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia, not long before that year’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen. Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?”

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New Study Finds Overwhelming Evidence of Harms From Fracking

DeSmogBlog

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. This article was originally published by Gas Outlook.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

This dynamic, according to a review of two decades of electric utility rate changes published by scholars in 2009 , creates “a bias toward the status quo or an ‘ossification’ of agency rulemaking as the expected benefits of a new policy may be outweighed by the costs of affecting the change.”. .”

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. The more multi-year ice, the better it is for the Arctic.

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Meet the Leaders - with Verco's Dave Worthington

Business Green

My biggest career regret is the momentum that was lost on the low carbon agenda after the global financial crisis in 2009. That we have left things too late and our emission reduction efforts are overwhelmed by accelerating deforestation and the release of methane from melting permafrost. And what is your biggest career regret?

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The prospects for I-1631 eliminating 20 million tons of carbon pollution annually by 2035

Low Carbon Prosperity

RGGI took effect in 2009 and was recently extended another decade. Another example is the Carbon Neutral Government British Columbia program (formerly Pacific Carbon Trust), which reported 2016 reduction cost performance of $25 CDN / tCO2e following a report after the program’s first seven years (2008-2014) of 4.5 million ($12 CDN/ tCO2e).