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State cannot enforce policy requiring oil firms to pay $75bn over 25 years for climate mitigation and adaptation A federal judge has struck down a landmark New York law that forces major polluters to pay climate damages. In her Monday ruling, Brenda Sannes, chief judge of the US district court for the northern district of New York, sided with Republican-led states and oil interests in saying the state cannot enforce its "climate superfund" law, signed by Kathy Hochul, the governor, in December...
Mother Jones - 16 hours 40 min agoOn Monday, an Obama-appointed federal judge ruled that New York State could not enforce its 2024 Climate Change Superfund Act, a landmark law that would have charged fossil fuel companies $75 billion over 25 years for climate damages from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions. In a 63-page opinion, Chief Judge Brenda Sannes of the U.S. District […]...
Popular Mechanics - 16 hours 41 min agoThe Midwest's biggest seismic threat could displace 7.2 million people and cause $300 billion in damage.
Ada Yonath in 2009. Her work, once dismissed as impractical, ultimately earned her a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry that year and opened new pathways for designing antibiotics at a time when drug resistance has become a global threat.
Popular Mechanics - 17 hours 30 min agoThe largest hoard of its kind ever found may mark the moment an epidemic swept through town.
Kathy Hochul, New York's governor, signed the law in 2024 and several other states have considered similar measures.
The Environmental Rights Amendment of the PA Constitution guarantees the right to clean air, pure water and to the preservation of the aesthetic values of the environment.
A green' building has to last for its intentionally small carbon footprint to pay off. That includes surviving flood, storm or wildfire damage.
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Romantic overload isn't just a human problem; for one tree frog species, too many suitors can mean making a bad choice, or none at all. A new study on Cope's gray tree frogs in Tennessee finds that females are far better at zeroing in on the "best" male when the...
NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.
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How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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Australian Geographic - 1 day 3 hours agoRafts of floating wetlands have been proven to slash greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment lagoons. The post Floating wetlands decrease wastewater emissions appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Retraction Watch - 1 day 9 hours agoA journal has retracted a paper by two Italian scientists who claimed to have found hidden structures inside of the oldest and largest of the Pyramids of Giza. The study, published in Remote Sensing in October 2022, purportedly used synthetic aperture radar to penetrate the Pyramid of Khufu with energy pulses and process the echoes … Continue reading Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza...
Finding reveals an overlooked way that water can damage surfaces.
In a display case on the lower level of the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in London, there's an unassuming stack of gray metal discs and blotting paper. It's not at all obvious that this humble object is the starting point of today's multibillion-dollar global battery industry. The object's invention in 1799 grew out of a disagreement that Alessandro Volta the Italian physicist for whom the unit of measurement for electrical potential is named had with his friend Luigi...
While Trump administration cuts have contributed to the epidemic of foodborne illnesses this summer, there are also deeper issues that make the American food supply chain susceptible to parasites and bacteria outbreaks.
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 23 hours agoAnd here we are enduring another wet blast of late summer’s hot breath, a last gasp before fall blows in. This imminent transition of seasons is always a thoughtful time for me, for many of us. Here’s how I was thinking about it a few years ago. Squirrels are comforted by birds' easy chit-chat, new […] The post Songs of Home appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Metal fans may have just gained scientific backing for the claim that their music tastes make them tougher. Neuroscientists from Germany's Max Planck Institute say attendees at the Wacken Open Air festival were able to withstand cold-induced pain for longer after several days of live metal. The study, conducted on-site...
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