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EPA proposes ban on all consumer, most industrial and commercial uses of methylene chloride

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Methylene chloride, also known as dichloromethane and DCM, is a volatile chemical used in a wide range of industrial, commercial, and consumer applications such as adhesives, sealants, degreasers, cleaners, and automobile products. Methylene chloride is also used in industrial settings for making other chemicals.

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Tesla’s Rebecca Tinucci makes it to TIME 100 Climate list for 2023

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Tesla Senior Director for Charging Infrastructure Rebecca Tinucci has been included in the TIME 100 Climate list for 2023. They could also help push the overall electric vehicle industry forward. “In Quite interestingly, Tinucci is the sole Tesla executive named in the TIME 100 Climate list for 2023.

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. Partnering with IRENA, the U.N.,

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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

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Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. He did, after all, lead a small pure electric car maker into a force that triggered a historic shift in the world’s auto industry towards EVs.

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Oil and Gas Climate Initiative to invest $1B over 10 years in low-emissions tech

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The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) will invest $1 billion over the next ten years to develop and to accelerate the commercial deployment of innovative low-emissions technologies. OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI) will aim to deploy successfully-developed new technologies among member companies and beyond.

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Climate Change #Liar-Deniers Are The New Racists

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As evil and damaging as racism is to individuals and our society overall, the Climate LiarDeniers’s evil far exceeds the scope of race haters because the damage is done to everyone at a global level of catastrophe that no racial supremacist ever dreamed of. . It’s as obvious as water is wet. .

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.