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PCAST suggests 6 key components for climate change strategy to President Obama; adaptation and mitigation

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The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. —PCAST letter to the President. The six key components are: 1.

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Vianode study finds low emissions for graphite battery anode production – Charged EVs

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Seven internationally accepted impact categories were considered: climate change, water scarcity footprint, land use, acidification potential, particulate matter, fossil resource use, and mineral and metal resource use. The study has been certified according to the ISO-14040 and ISO-14044 standards. “In

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Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

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Under illumination for 6 hours, the optimized reduced titania-Cu 2 O photocatalyst enables 0.13% photoreduction of highly diluted CO 2 with water vapors to 462 nmol g ?1 What if we drew inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals?

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LEED Certification and EV Charging Stations: What you need to know

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Installing an electric vehicle (EV) charging station comes with all sorts of advantages, one of the most prominent being that it goes a long way toward helping you achieve LEED certification. LEED and EV Charging Stations. Provide at least Level 2 charging capabilities for these parking spaces. What is LEED?

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Renewable Energy & EV Charging – Perfect Synergy

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As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. To begin with, they are much cleaner and more environmentally friendly, emitting far fewer harmful emissions that contribute to air and water pollution, as well as climate change.

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Rice researchers show ocean could have contained enough methane to cause drastic climate change 56M years ago

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Analysis by researchers at Rice University suggests that the theory that the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago drove a massive climate change incident—the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)—is quite possible.

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Major truck OEMs form PACT to advocate for EV infrastructure development – Charged EVs

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Vehicle OEMs are investing large sums to advance the transition to electric vehicles, even as they lobby governments to water down the emissions regulations that are forcing that transition. Advocates of slowing the transition often cite the lack of public charging infrastructure, and they have a point.