Cement is responsible for more than 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Its emissions doubled over the past two decades, and demand is still rising fast.
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Researchers are developing ways to lock captured CO2 into cement. It could help rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure and deal with climate change at the same time.
The coal, oil and natural gas industries are also connected with human rights violations, public health disasters and environmental devastation.
The damage to coal ash sites from Hurricane Florence demonstrates how a community’s vulnerability to natural disasters is closely linked to how stringent environmental regulations are.
Questions about supplies of rare-earth elements, crucial in high-tech devices, pushed researchers to look to industrial waste for new sources of the key materials.
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Professor of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
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Graduate Research Assistant in Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Watts College, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Geography, Salem State University
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Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering and Materials Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Research Fellow at the Global CO2 Initiative, University of Michigan
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Professor of Advanced Energy Research, Director of the Global CO2 Initiative, University of Michigan
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