Articles include: Silent calamity: The health impacts of wildfire smoke; White House adviser and environmental justice advocate Catherine Coleman Flowers; Climate change increases renters’ risks; Why are there so many Atlantic named storms? Five possible explanations; Heavier downpours strain septic systems in some rural areas; Devastating disease in dolphins linked to extreme downpours, researcher says; Santa Fe women built homemade air purifiers to help protect people from wildfire smoke; Hundreds of coastal airports at risk from flooding, sea-level rise, study finds; Historic Portsmouth Village under threat from hurricanes and rising seas.
Tag: Transportation
Study: NYTimes Climate Fwd June 2, 2021
Yale Climate Connections, April 30, 2021
Articles include: Major parties’ climate programs are miles apart; With seas rising, stalled research budgets must also rise; Cities’ notable efforts on climate change; Citrus farming and geothermal energy; Sea-level rise could submerge fiber optic cables, a key component of internet infrastructure; Air pollution from fossil fuels caused 8.7 million premature deaths in 2018, study finds [No study link]; Four electric cargo cycles deliver packages in Miami.
Reports: Electric vehicles – 3 articles
BBC: Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries? While electric vehicles (EVs) may not emit any carbon dioxide during their working lives, he’s concerned about what happens when they run out of road – in particular what happens to the batteries. “In 10 to 15 years when there are large numbers coming to the end of their life, it’s going to be very important that we have a recycling industry,” he points out.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Electric vehicles to go from 11 million to 145 million in nine years, says IEA. And there could be even more electric vehicles on the road by 2030 if policymakers were to give them a jumpstart; a newly released report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found that there could be as many as 230 million electric vehicles worldwide by 2030 if governments agreed to accelerate their efforts to encourage production of the low-carbon vehicles—vital to staying within the global climate target.
Axios: To combat climate change, electric cars have to be cheaper. Teslas, which make up more than 70% of the electric-car market, have even wealthier drivers, with average incomes of more than $300,000, Hardman’s research has found. (Multiple requests for comment to Tesla were not returned.)
The Daily Climate, April 26, 2021
Articles include: wood pellet loophole in Paris Accord; bike licensing and justice; hydrogen and the grid; California oil spillers and the law; jobs; US and China and Clean technology; electric trucks; Canada’s melting permafrost; Report: halting methane emissions.
Yale Climate Connection, April 27, 2021
Articles include: Report: All new cars and trucks in U.S. could be electric by 2035; How to prepare your coastal property for sea-level rise and weather extremes; Wildfires can contaminate outdoor marijuana crops; tool: Earth is getting a digital twin; How New York’s Javits Center slashed energy consumption by 26%.
The Daily Climate, April 22, 2021
Articles include: Earth Day; Young activists; EU climate agreement; Biden’s climate goals; Biden and Putin; building electric vehicles; Brazil and the Amazon; climate change and the world’s economy; African peace and climate change; car-free inner cities; Putin, Russia, and GHGs; Canada’s GHG pledge; Ikea and renewable energy.
Smartscale.org – transportation in Virginia
SmartScale.org focuses on transportation issues in Virginia.
The Daily Climate, April 16, 2021
Articles include: Canadian methane emissions; Hawaiian coral reefs; phase-out of non-EVs; better highways; funding focus changes on infrastructure; Japan & hydrogen; South Korea funding coal plants; wildfires and Alaska; Utilities and clean energy standards; clean hydrogen energy; US and China – foes; 3% of ecosystems remain intact – study.
The Daily Climate, April 15, 2021
Articles include: 2050 Goals are inadequate; champagne & climate change; 100% clean power; renewable energy powers decarbonization; electric vehicles by 2035; Interior Department and Manchin; Epic Drought; Indian monsoon season; ticks moving into the Arctic; East African oil pipeline; American research station abandoned; food web in the Great Lakes.