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ULA Atlas V rocket launches NOAA, NASA weather satellite

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GOES-T is a powerful weather satellite that will be responsible for monitoring weather patterns and improving forecasts across the Western United States and North America, including Alaska and Hawaii. The two previous missions, GOES-16 (GOES-R) and GOES-17 (GOES-S), also launched aboard Atlas V rockets in 2016 and 2018.

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FAA launches new Center of Excellence for alternative jet fuels; $40M in funding over 10 years

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Research and development efforts by the team will focus on NextGen environmental goals for noise, air quality, climate change and energy. Areas of study will include new aircraft technologies and sustainable alternative aviation jet fuels. —FAA Administrator Michael Huerta.

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‘The Plane Is Fine’: An Airline Course Looks to Overcome Fear in the Skies

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But fear of flying hardly seems irrational, what with reports of aircraft malfunctions, overworked air traffic controllers and the sense that climate change is making turbulence worse. For instance: On Jan. Everyone — 367 passengers and 12 crew members — on the Japanese Airlines flight survived.)

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Going with the talent flow

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The EVEVA: Climate change and Al Gore’s influence Chapter Vice-President Al LePage, the executive director of an Oregon nonprofit trail organization, was jolted awake to the threat of climate change with the release of the UN's IPCC Climate Report in 2018.

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Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

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The Trump Administration released its proposed FY 2018 budget, which it calls “A New Foundation for American Greatness”. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is targeted for the largest percentage reduction in FY 2018, with a $2.6-billion 2017 est. 2018 prop. Δ Clean Air and Global Climate Change.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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