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100,000 Petitioners Call for Biden to Act on Plastic Pollution, Production
Presidential Plastics Action Plan Coalition to Submit Petitions Monday in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO Members of the national coalition behind the Presidential Plastics Action Plan will gather outside the Environmental Protection Agency’s San Francisco office on Monday to deliver speeches and more than 100,000 petitions calling for President Biden and his administration to adopt the plan.
The coalition of some 600 community and conservation groups developed the plan last year and delivered it to the administration in December. It calls for Biden to take eight executive actions to combat the plastic pollution crisis, including a ban on new plastic production facilities, using federal purchasing power to curb single-use plastics, tightening up regulation of the petrochemical industry, ending fossil fuel subsidies and protecting vulnerable
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April 7, 2021
For millennia, people have perceived the ocean as endlessly bountiful. Owned by none. Teeming with life. Ours for the taking.
But during the past couple of decades, that narrative of inexhaustibility has been upended. The biggest fish are fished out. Sharks are becoming rare. Many marine mammals are on the brink. Even plankton populations are shifting and thinning out.
And at the same time, the very chemistry of the global ocean is changing, driven by the growing carbon load in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. The ocean is warming up, losing its oxygen and acidifying.
OmniSci, the pioneer in accelerated analytics, today announced its Platinum Sponsorship of
GTC 2021, the premier AI conference. Leading OmniSci s presence at this free virtual event, April 12-16, 2021, will be seminars by OmniSci VP of Product, Venkat Krishnamurthy, Spatial Data Science Practice Lead, Dr. Mike Flaxman, Data Scientist, Abhishek Damera, and Director of Federal Solutions, Adam Edelman, as they discuss new ways to enhance data science and geospatial insight through the power of GPU-based accelerated analytics.
During GTC 2021, OmniSci will have company experts available for one-on-one virtual meetingshttps://www2.omnisci.com/event/nvidia-gtc/lp to help users learn how to gain actionable insights from their largest datasets at unprecedented speeds. At the end of each meeting, registrants will be entered into a drawing to receive an Apple iPad (winner to be announced April 16, 2021).