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President Biden took a step Wednesday toward fulfilling a major campaign promise by imposing a pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters.
The move sets up a major conflict with the oil and gas industry that has been wounded from the coronavirus pandemic but was expecting demand for fuels to rebound. But Biden is pleasing climate change activists who pressured him to begin aggressively moving the country off fossil fuels.
Biden’s action goes further than an order issued by the Interior Department last week to stop giving new leases for fossil fuel production on federal lands or waters for at least 60 days unless top political appointees approve it.
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Harrisburg University professor who created 3D face shields at start of pandemic dies of COVID-19
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 13, 2021
Harrisburg University Professor Dr. Charles Chip Shearrow pictured on the right passed away from COVID-19 on Jan. 12. His son, Charles A Shearrow II, who helped his dad with creating 3D face shields, is in the center. Photo: Harrisburg University
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Following months of producing 3D face shield masks for frontline workers, Harrisburg University professor Charles Shearrow died Tuesday from his own battle with COVID-19.
Known as Chip to family, friends, and colleagues, the 61-year-old was the Advanced Manufacturing Program Lead professor at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. When COVID-19 became a serious concern last year and personal protective equipment began to run low for frontline workers, Shearrow began problem-solving.
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology sold $100 million in bonds to fund the construction of an 11-story health science and advanced manufacturing educational facility in Harrisburg.
Digitalization crucial to SIDS’ COVID-19 recovery, long-term development
VIENNA, 12 January 2021 - The upscaling of digital technologies presents a host of opportunities for small island developing states (SIDS) to diversify their economies, boost manufacturing, gain greater access to global value chains, and improve disaster preparedness. However, significant obstacles remain, including inadequate digital infrastructure, insufficient training opportunities for women and young people, a growing digital divide, and a lack of data and policy knowledge. That’s according to an expert panel convened for the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit
Ralf Bredel, Chief of the Asia-Pacific Regional Programme at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), said that SIDS share common challenges such as limited resource bases, long distances to primary markets, and vulnerability to climate change.