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Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley have developed a state-by-state plan for the United States to generate 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2050.
The study – which was published last month in the journal
Energy and Environmental Sciences – calls for major changes to infrastructure as well as current energy consumption practices. The study’s authors outline ways to combat climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs, and stabilize energy prices.
“The main barriers are social, political and getting industries to change. One way to overcome the barriers is to inform people about what is possible,” Stanford engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson said in a press release. “By showing that it’s technologically and economically possible, this study could reduce the barriers to a large scale transformation.”
Blood donors needed amid pandemic as supply drastically declines
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BATON ROUGE - Despite a consistent and growing need for blood, fewer people are donating amid the ongoing pandemic out of fear of contracting COVID-19. The reason we re out here today with two buses is because our units have dropped. They ve declined a lot since COVID because so many people have scares, Life Share blood donor technician TK Carter said.
Those fears of contracting the virus are keeping donors away, however, some donors believe that the need for their blood is worth the risk.
Swans swim on a pond at Forest Cemetery in Oskaloosa. (Aaron McIntyre/Fickr)
The Iowa city of Oskaloosa has been awarded a $400,000 grant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which will be used to “to help eliminate waste and hazardous materials.”
The city was awarded the Brownfield Assessment Grant which aims “to empower states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, successfully clean up, and reuse brownfields.” Brownfields are properties, expansions, developments, or reuses which may be compromised by the presence or suspected presence of hazardous pollutants, substances, or other contaminants. Officials with the City of Oskaloosa will seek public input for determining the community’s most polluted sites.