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The utility will pay a premium to Crestone Peak Resources, which minimizes methane leakage in the production and transport of natural gas by continuously monitoring activity through Project Canary’s technology. The results, which will be tracked starting this spring through early 2022, will be third-party certified by the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.
Some clean energy advocates say the industry should already be continuously monitoring for methane leaks. The natural gas industry is doing everything in their power to delay a phase down in gas plant buildouts due to climate action, said Bruce Niles, executive director of climate imperative at Energy Innovation, calling responsibly sourced gas the new clean coal.
Penn Medicine implements an anti-racism program across Health System
Speaking on the third day of Black History Month, in the post-George Floyd era of COVID disparities, Penn Medicine’s CEO, Medical School dean, and vice dean of Inclusion and Diversity announced the implementation of a new institution-wide program aimed at eliminating structural racism. Appearing in the 7th Annual University of Pennsylvania Martin Luther King, Jr., Health Equity Symposium were LDI Senior Fellow Eve Higginbotham, LDI Senior Fellow Kevin Mahoney, Larry Jameson, and Dorothy Roberts. (Image: Penn LDI)
“This year has been an inflection point,” said Jameson. “We’ve seen an outpouring of a deep understanding of the biases and structural racism in our society. And I think we’ve come to recognize that it’s important for all of us not only to look at the external society, but to look internally at our own organizations.”
A Clarke University faculty member seeks to help start an initiative aimed at enabling communities in her native Kenya to better resolve conflicts.
Mary Gitau, an assistant professor of social work, will work next year with faculty at Kisii University in Kenya, as well as community members from that region, to start the Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution. She was awarded a fellowship from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program for the work.
Gitau and her colleagues aim to create a center where people can learn solutions for issues in and among their communities. Her experiences, in turn, will allow her to broaden the perspectives of her students at Clarke.