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How to slash buildings’ growing greenhouse gas emissions
A new UN report gives a blueprint for greener buildings
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Carbon dioxide coming from the buildings where we live and work set a new record in 2019. What’s more, those planet-heating emissions will probably keep rising after the pandemic, the authors of a new UN report warn. The report urges governments to make structures more energy efficient and speed up a transition to renewable energy. Doing that could be a great way to address both the climate crisis and the economic downturn caused by COVID-19.
Using drones to find and plug orphan gas and oil wells
Thousands of wells were drilled in days gone by
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Western NY is riddled with old oil and gas wells that may be leaking methane.DEC
ALBANY Not everyone knows this but New York has a history of oil and gas drilling, largely in the western part of the state. At its peak in 1882, nearly 6.7 million barrels of crude oil were extracted in the Empire State.
Those days are long gone but many of the thousands of wells, with many dating to the 19th and early 20th centuries, have since been abandoned and fallen into obscurity.
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Lion Electric Company has successfully launched five of its electric school buses in New York that features a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging technology to be used in reducing emissions and carbon waste. The deployment of the e-School Buses would equip The Big Apple with a powerful machine with an impressive range of 155 miles with 72 passengers on board.
The electric school bus V2G design was created by the Quebec-based Canadian manufacturer, Lions Electric Company, which also made the vehicle for the National Express, New York State Energy Research, and Development Authority, etc. Currently, the five school buses are deployed in the City of White Plains, with more coming shortly.
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