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Will Mass Electric Vehicle Adoption Impact the Power Grid?

July 28, 2022
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In January 2021, the Biden administration announced its plans to transition the United States to 100 percent “clean” electricity by 2035 and to have half of all vehicles sold be zero-emissions vehicles by 2030. One hundred percent clean energy by 2035 is an ambitious goal, and adding a considerable amount of electric vehicles (EV) to…

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How Mass Electric Vehicle Adoption Will Impact the Power Grid

July 28, 2022
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In January 2021, the Biden administration announced its plans to transition the United States to 100 percent “clean” electricity by 2035 and to have half of all vehicles sold be zero-emissions vehicles by 2030. One hundred percent clean energy by 2035 is an ambitious goal, and adding a considerable amount of electric vehicles (EV) to…

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Foreign Company With Troubled Past Buys Into Massive Midwest Carbon Capture Project

July 27, 2022
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Midwest landowners fighting the construction of a 2,000-mile web of carbon-capture pipelines are upset to learn that the company seeking easements on their lands is funded by foreign investors, including at least one with a troubling history. Summit Carbon Solutions aims to build a pipeline through hundreds of farms and other private properties in Iowa,…

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EXCLUSIVE: Foreign Company With Troubled Past Buys Into Massive Midwest Carbon Capture Project

July 27, 2022
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Midwest landowners fighting the construction of a 2,000-mile web of carbon-capture pipelines are upset to learn that the company seeking easements on their lands is funded by foreign investors, including at least one with a troubling history. Summit Carbon Solutions aims to build a pipeline through hundreds of farms and other private properties in Iowa,…

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NASA to Launch 2 More Choppers to Mars to Help Return Rocks

July 27, 2022
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA is launching two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to return Martian rocks and soil samples to Earth. Under the plan announced Wednesday, NASA’s Perseverance rover will do double duty and transport the cache to the rocket that will launch them off the red planet a decade from now. Perseverance…

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Bidder Pays $2.8 Million for Jacket Worn in Space by Buzz Aldrin

July 27, 2022
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NEW YORK—Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million. The $2,772,500 paid for the Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket is the highest for any American space-flown artifact sold at auction, according to Sotheby’s, which handled the sale….

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In a First, Coin Bearing Zodiac Found Off Israel’s Coast

July 27, 2022
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JERUSALEM—Israel’s Antiquities Authority said Monday it has discovered a rare 1,850-year-old bronze zodiac coin during an underwater survey off the coastal city of Haifa. The coin bears the image of the zodiac sign Cancer behind a depiction of the moon goddess Luna. Experts say the coin was minted in Alexandria, Egypt, under the rule of…

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Electric Vehicles: Trading One Form of Hazardous Mining for Another

July 26, 2022
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Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) reached a record 3 million in 2020, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) . That’s an increase of 40 percent from 2019 and is in contrast to overall car sales, which saw a 16 percent decrease. The report further estimated that EV sales could reach 23…

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Russia to Drop out of International Space Station After 2024

July 26, 2022
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MOSCOW—Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s new space chief said Tuesday amid high tensions between Moscow and the West over the fighting in Ukraine. Yuri Borisov, appointed this month to lead the state space agency, Roscosmos, said during a meeting…

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Extreme Policies for Organic Farming Ignore Soil Science: Former USDA Soil Scientist

July 26, 2022
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Under pressure from environmentalists, some governments have implemented extreme nitrogen fertilizer restrictions that ignore the time needed to restore a depleted soil microbiology, resulting in protests from some scientists and farmers who are seeing the concerning impacts of such restrictions. According to organic farming proponent and former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scientist Kelly…

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