Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

4 years 8 months ago
New York City operates over 30,000 City-owned vehicles, the largest municipal fleet in the country. Police cars, fire engines, and public buses drive up and down the city streets performing their public services duties. But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring […]
Harold Rickenbacker

What a small country’s successes and mistakes can teach us about emission pricing

4 years 8 months ago
I’m from Aotearoa, New Zealand, and I really love its land and people, but I am fully aware that from a global perspective it appears pretty insignificant – that’s actually one of its charms.  But being small doesn’t mean you can’t make big contributions including toward stabilizing the climate. This recently published article highlights some […]
Suzi Kerr

Pennsylvania bill gives conventional drillers pass to cut corners, lets communities pay the price

4 years 8 months ago
In recent years, Pennsylvania has become an epicenter of the nation’s hydraulic fracturing boom. But even as production from “unconventional” wells – those using horizontal drilling and fracking – has grown, nearly 90% of the state’s 120,000 active wells are older, “conventional” vertical ones that typically rely on traditional drilling methods. What does that mean […]
Adam Peltz

Pennsylvania bill gives conventional drillers pass to cut corners, lets communities pay the price

4 years 8 months ago
In recent years, Pennsylvania has become an epicenter of the nation’s hydraulic fracturing boom. But even as production from “unconventional” wells – those using horizontal drilling and fracking – has grown, nearly 90% of the state’s 120,000 active wells are older, “conventional” vertical ones that typically rely on traditional drilling methods. What does that mean […]
Adam Peltz

Pennsylvania bill gives conventional drillers pass to cut corners, lets communities pay the price

4 years 8 months ago
In recent years, Pennsylvania has become an epicenter of the nation’s hydraulic fracturing boom. But even as production from “unconventional” wells – those using horizontal drilling and fracking – has grown, nearly 90% of the state’s 120,000 active wells are older, “conventional” vertical ones that typically rely on traditional drilling methods. What does that mean […]
Adam Peltz

Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

4 years 8 months ago

New York City operates over 30,000 City-owned vehicles, the largest municipal fleet in the country. Police cars, fire engines, and public buses drive up and down the city streets performing their public services duties. But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring […]

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Harold Rickenbacker