Tag: Environment
HERO’s Mission: Engineering “Video Games” Meet Wave Tank
Latest HERO WEC Mission Status Update Examines How NREL’s Wave Tank Validates Computer-Generated Scenarios for Wave Energy Converters. NREL’s hydraulic and electric reverse osmosis wave energy converter (HERO WEC) surfed the laboratory’s wave tank, facing another round of trials and tribulations to advance wave energy research. Since 2024 the team … [continued]
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Michigan launches first annual Microplastics Awareness Week
By Julia Belden
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy and governor are marking Michigan’s first Microplastics Awareness Week. Scientists are now finding microplastics in the human body but don’t know their long-term effects.
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Xenopoulos: Warmer weather leading to vanishing winters in Great Lakes
Winter conditions in the Great Lakes are getting much shorter — by about two weeks fewer each decade since 1995
Sierra Club Releases Nearly 1,000 New Emails from Trump’s EPA
Washington, DC — As the Trump administration continues to undo federal regulations that protect our air and water, including proposals to eliminate standards for vehicle emissions and revoke the 2009 endangerment finding, the Sierra Club today released 952 pages of emails between EPA officials and external organizations provided in response to … [continued]
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Electric School Buses Are Just Better Than Diesel Buses, That’s All
Electric school buses continue to roll into school districts across the US, improving the health and well-being of young children despite the abrupt U-turn in federal EV policy.
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