Headline News:
- “NASA Satellite Ends 17-Year Mission Measuring The Sun’s Impact On Climate” • A spacecraft measuring the amount of solar energy entering Earth’s atmosphere was shut down after 17 years. NASA says that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity have over 50 times the influence of changes in solar energy on global warming. [Spaceflight Now]
Spacecraft launch preparations (NASA image)
- “New Harvard Study Links COVID Deaths And Air Pollution – Interview With Dr Francesca Dominici” • A study sheds light on the connection of COVID-19 health impacts with air pollution. It found that a one unit increase in long-term average exposure to fine particulate matter is associated with a 15% increase in the COVID-19 mortality rate. [CleanTechnica]
- “EPA Rolls Back Air Regulations For Waste Coal Plants In Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia” • The EPA says it will create a new category for plants that burn waste coal from mining, with with relaxed regulations. It is relaxing air pollution regulations for three small power plants in Western Pennsylvania and one in West Virginia. [WHYY]
- “California Looks For Long-Duration Renewable Energy Storage Contracts For 2026” • An optimal power portfolio for California to drive the world’s fifth largest economy towards greenhouse gas reduction goals for 2030 and then to zero carbon by 2040, includes 1 GW of long duration energy storage, one analyst has said. [SolarPACES]
- “Coronavirus Puts Arctic Climate Change Research On Ice” • Every year, 150 climate scientists of the EastGRIP project fly to Greenland to bore deep into its largest glacier and measure ice streams beneath it. The ice streams empty into the ocean, rising sea levels. This year the ice streams will go unmeasured because of the coronavirus. [Taiwan News]
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April 12 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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