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With One Number, Biden Will Start to Reverse Trump’s Way of Valuing Climate Source: By Eric Roston and Stephen Lee, Bloomberg • Posted: Monday, February 22, 2021
Reinstating Obama-era guidance on climate change would begin the process of changing federal rules
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 19. Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times
President Joe Biden has begun reactivating Obama-era approaches for building climate change into federal policy, action that may soon revamp environmental regulation by establishing a much higher dollar value for greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
The EPA is considering plans for cleaning up legacy coal ash ponds. Tell them to make sure this toxic mess doesn t jeopardize our communities.
Amid this patchwork of farm fields fortified with gray matchstick forests sits two centuries worth of waste from the coal industry. Since the United States began burning coal on an industrial scale in the 19th century, upwards of 35 percent of the immolated material has fallen to the bottom of boilers as ash. That ash has then been removed, mixed with water, and placed in ponds and landfills. Over 3 billion tons of it now occupy more than 1,400 sites across the United States. According to the industry s own data, over 90 percent of these sites contaminate groundwater with almost two dozen heavy and radioactive metals including arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, and radium at levels exceeding the EPA s health standards. A 2014 EPA study revealed that living next to a coal ash waste site increases one s risk of getting cancer from drinking grou
DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office Funds Next-Gen Turbine Blades and More
Feb. 23, 2021
DOE s Advanced Manufacturing Office is funding tomorrow s tech. Learn about the awards led and/or supported by NREL.
Photo by Werner Slocum, NREL
Utility-scale wind turbine blade design and production has remained relatively unchanged over the past 25 years. A National Renewable Energy (NREL)-led project is looking to evolve beyond business as usual, with the help of a recently announced FOA award from the U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE s) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO).
Alongside partners TPI Composites Inc., Additive Engineering Solutions (AES), Ingersoll, Vanderbilt University, and the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation
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