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April 26, 2022

Climate Change Carbon Cap and Trade Is Set to Start in Pennsylvania--but for How Long? Governor Tom Wolf announced last week that his administration had finalized a regulation to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Engineering These Three Overlooked Black Inventors Shaped Our Lives The innovators changed the nature of household work, industrial production and high technology By Ainissa Ramirez

Economics An Old-Fashioned Economic Tool Can Tame Pricing Algorithms Left unchecked, pricing algorithms might unintentionally discriminate and collude to fix prices By Ethan Wilk

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Cosmology Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics By Anil Ananthaswamy

Paleontology Pterosaurs May Have Had Brightly Colored Feathers, Exquisite Fossil Reveals An amazingly well-preserved fossil suggests the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs also had some type of feather or feather precursor By Riley Black

Behavior Carrying On in Difficult Times New ways to cope with the unpredictability of life By Andrea Gawrylewski

Ecology National Park Nature Walks, Episode 8: The Blue Oaks of Sequoia Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a multitude of creatures, great and small, amid the sonic grandeur of nature. You may not be easily able to access these places amid the pandemic, but after you take this acoustic journey, you will be longing to get back outside. Strap on some headphones, find a quiet place and prepare to experience an evanescent like no other: the blue oak woodlands in Sequoia National Park in California. Catch additional episodes in the series here.  By Jacob Job | 29:29

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Must End Despite claims to the contrary, eliminating them would have a significant effect in addressing the climate crisis By Geoffrey Supran,Peter Erickson,Doug Koplow,Michael Lazarus,Peter Newell,Naomi Oreskes,Harro van Asselt | February 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The states are really the ones moving forward on actually addressing carbon, as opposed to incentives to clean electricity, which is where Congress is headed." Karen Palmer, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, E&E News

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