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Texas’ environmental agency enables companies to increase oilfield wastewater disposal in rivers
| msn.com
When a team of researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi combed through Railroad Commission records several years ago, they found more than 50 permits allowing conventional oil and gas drillers to discharge oil field wastewater, known as produced water, into creeks and streams near the Eagle Ford shale basin in South Texas. This article quotes William Burgos, professor of civil and environmental engineering.
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Engineering researcher joining Institutes of Energy and the Environment
| psu.edu
Derek Hall, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is joining the Institutes of Energy and the Environment on Aug. 15.
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Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
The legal and social complexities of solving climate change
As the United States and other countries around the world wrestle with climate change and its impacts, there is also a lot of debate related to the technology, finances, regulations, and social acceptance of potential solutions to climate change.
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Q&A: Carbon voyage
| psu.edu
Researchers in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering received a $2 million grant from the Navy Decarbonization Research Consortium to study shipboard carbon capture and alternative fuel utilization. The project is detailed in a Q&A with Associate Professor Brian Fronk.
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Mirror, mirror, who is the most efficient semiconductor of them all?
| psu.edu
Current synthesizing approaches to make single-layer nanosheets of semiconducting material for atomically thin electronics develop a peculiar “mirror twin” defect that reduces the performance of devices like transistors. This is a problem preventing the advancement of next-generation electronics, according to researchers from the Penn State’s Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform and their collaborators. But now, the research team may have come up with a solution to correct this defect. They published their work in Nature Nanotechnology.
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How much good does recycling do these days?
| abc27.com
Almost every one of us has a recycling bin where we live. But how many of us know exactly what is allowed in one? And how many of us have wondered how much good recycling does these days? This article and broadcast TV segment quotes Erica Smithwick, Distinguished Professor of Geography.
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Erica Smithwick: A practical, financially helpful way to fight climate change
| post-gazette.com
This summer, Pennsylvanians across the state were forced to endure some of the most dangerous levels of air pollution we’ve seen in decades. This op-ed was written by Erica Smithwick, Distinguished Professor of Geography.
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Growing Impact: Season 4
In season four, Growing Impact is expanding: more team members from different disciplines and deeper conversations around the challenges their project is addressing, the inspiration that turned an idea into a project, and the solutions that may arise from these interdisciplinary researchers. Join us on September first for season four of Growing Impact.
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Pa. group pitches farms on solar model that keeps farmland usable, takes up less space
| stateimpact.npr.org
Agrivoltaics uses raised or spaced-out solar panels to allow farms to lease land for renewable energy and continue crop production or livestock grazing.
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Geography postdoc selected for inaugural 'Elevate the Discipline' program
| psu.edu
Mark Ortiz, a Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar in Penn State’s Department of Geography, is one of 15 geographers selected to the American Association of Geographers’ first-ever cohort in the new Elevate the Discipline program.
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From heat czars to tree planting, relief for urban heat islands
| news.yahoo.com
For 12 nights in a row, The Mission at Kern County shelter has been filled to capacity. That’s unusual for summer months in Bakersfield, California, where many of the city’s unhoused residents tend to sleep outdoors during the warm nights. But Bakersfield’s warm nights have become unbearably hot. This article quotes quotes Guangqing Chi, professor of rural sociology, demography and public health sciences.
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New study aims to help Pennsylvania dairy farmers develop 'climate smart' practices
| fox43.com
A Penn State research team received a $25 million grant from the USDA to research effects of 'climate smart' practices on Pa. dairy farm emissions. This article quotes Armen Kemanian Professor, Plant Science.
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