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2013 Leopold Leadership Program | Feb 04, 2013
Dr. Noelle Selin of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change has been selected as one of 20 Leopold Leadership Fellows for 2013. She is the first fellow to be selected from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Based at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment...
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MIT News | Jan 25, 2013
MIT researchers, Massachusetts officials highlight strategies to adapt to climate change.
Just days after President Obama called for action on climate change in his second inaugural address, members of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s administration joined energy and environment researchers...
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LA Times | Jan 23, 2013
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Big deal, little fanfare over global pact on mercury controls
By Carol J. Williams
January 23, 2013
It’s a highly toxic element that travels the world in mysterious ways, respects neither manmade nor natural boundaries and rapidly accumulates in people and the food they eat.
Mercury’s...
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PBS News Hour | Jan 23, 2013
Paint Pigment, Violent Raccoons and Other Surprising Mercury Trivia
January 18, 2013
By: Jenny Marder
Delegates gathered in Geneva this week to negotiate for a global treaty to regulate the toxic chemical mercury.
I want to call your attention to...
Jan 23, 2013
State officials join MIT faculty for this panel discussing why a strong approach combining mitigation and adaption is so urgently needed, and how Massachusetts is rising to the challenge.
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Scientific American | Jan 22, 2013
By Brian Bienkowski and Environmental Health News
January 18, 2013
As United Nations delegates end their mercury treaty talks today, scientists warn that ongoing...
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Washington Post | Jan 17, 2013
By Juliet Eilperin
As winter begins to tighten its grip on much of the United States, air conditioning doesn’t seem like much of a survival strategy. But a new study has found that home air conditioning...
News Release
Transportation Research Board | Jan 15, 2013
Karplus, Paltsev recieve award for study on the impacts of vehicle efficieny stanards
Valerie Karplus, Research Scientist, and Sergey Paltsev, Assistant Director for Economic Research with MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, were awarded the 2012 Pyke Johnson Award at a...
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New York Times | Jan 15, 2013
By Justin Gillis
I would guess a few Green readers had the experience, over the holidays, of arguing yet again about ...
Commentary
Energy Biz | Jan 14, 2013
A Win for Energy and America
By John Reilly
THE NEW - STILL DIVIDED - CONGRESS reconvenes this month, and its first order of business is the looming federal deficit. The president made his desires clear in his victory speech: "We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt...