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Metcalf Institute’s 2024 Annual Public Lecture Series

Metcalf’s 2024 Public Lecture Series will feature an inspired thought leader (SEJ member Erica Gies), grappling with real-world issues of climate change and water issues. Free/livestreaming with limited in-person seating for the Jun 6 Leeson Lecture in Kingston, R.I. Register for one or all.

"EPA Staff: No Need To Tighten Soot Limits"

"EPA air quality specialists are again discounting the need for tighter daily limits on soot exposure — a rebuff to the majority findings of an agency advisory committee in the high-profile regulatory review."

Source: E&E News, 06/01/2022

"Experts: Everything Points To Another Busy Hurricane Season"

"Nearly every natural force and a bunch of human-caused ones — more than just climate change — have turned the last several Atlantic hurricane seasons into deadly and expensive whoppers. The season that starts Wednesday looks like another note in a record-breaking refrain because all those ingredients for disaster are still going strong, experts warn."

Source: AP, 06/01/2022

"Miracle Fuel Hydrogen Can Actually Make Climate Change Worse"

"A world desperate for a climate-friendly fuel is pinning its hopes on hydrogen, seeing it as a way to power factories, buildings, ships and planes without pumping carbon dioxide into the sky. But now scientists are warning that hydrogen leaked into the atmosphere can contribute to climate change much like carbon."

Source: Bloomberg Green, 06/01/2022

"Biden Wants To Rebuild The EPA. He Doesn’t Have The Money To Do It."

"After years of neglect, President Biden promised to reinvigorate the EPA as part of his push to tackle climate change and ease the pollution burden placed on poor and minority communities. But the agency’s budgetary woes are preventing the nation’s top pollution regulator from doing its job, in ways large and small."

Source: Washington Post, 06/01/2022

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