BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 22 (TNSpp) -- 350.org, an organization that works to end the age of fossil fuels and build a community-led renewable energy, issued the following news release: This G7 Summit in Hiroshima was an opportunity for leaders to commit to a rapid phaseout of all fossil fuels. But the acknowledgement of the need for an accelerated phase out of unabated fossil fuels touches on a fraction of the urgency required to achieve the 1.5 target. As in the 2022 communique, the communiq  more

BASEL, Switzerland, May 22 -- Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, a journal that addresses topics such as acid precipitation, air quality monitoring and management, air pollution climatology, atmospheric impact assessment, forest-fire emissions, greenhouse gases, health and ecological effects and clean air technology, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2023 edition: Original Papers: * Health impact assessments of particulate matter pollution from construction sites  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R45825) on May 18, 2023, entitled "Federal Preemption - A Legal Primer:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * "Requirements," "Laws," "Regulations," and "Standards" Federal statutes frequently preempt state "requirements," "laws," "regulations," and/or "standards" concerning subjects of federal regulatory concern./97 These preemption clauses have raised the question of whether they encompass state common   more

HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 22 -- Greenpeace International issued the following news release on May 20, 2023: The G7 Summit has concluded with its members endorsing new fossil gas in the midst of ongoing climate emergency, demonstrating a complete denial of the havoc fossil fuel emissions have been wreaking on our planet. Tracy Carty, Global Climate Politics Expert at Greenpeace International, said: "G7 leaders have ignored warnings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: act now or it wil  more

BASEL, Switzerland, May 21 -- Nanomaterials, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it features research relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Vol. 13, No. 10 edition: Articles: * Nanoimprint Mold Consisting of an Adhesive Lap Joint between a Nanopatterned Metal Sleeve and a Carbon Composite Roll * Surface Adsorption Mechanism between Lead(II,IV) and Nanomaghemite Studied on Polluted Water Samples  more

HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 22 (TNSres) -- Oil Change International issued the following news release on May 20, 2023: G7 Leaders in Hiroshima concluded that there is "an important role" for "increased deliveries of LNG" and that "publicly supported gas investments can be appropriate", jeopardizing the 1.5-C warming limit and directly contradicting last year's G7 commitment to end international public finance for fossil fuels by the end of 2022. The G7 endorsement of increased gas finance comes des  more