Roundup 10/21: Emphemeral Energy Edition

by Eli Kintisch

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that its voluntary Methane to Markets program has reduced methane emissions equivalent to 26 million tons of carbon dioxide by reusing gas that otherwise would have been released. Methane is the main ingredient in natural gas.

A week after the Iranian government announced that verbatim copying of published research does not constitute plagiarism, Iranian academics are circulating a
report that concludes that the Iranian science minister’s plagiarism is more extensive than so far reported.

Have you appropriated $10 billion for biomedical science today? It's medical research day.

Photovoltaic systems have dropped in cost by 4% over the last year—and by 30% over the last 10 years, says Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Scientific advisers to the Department of Energy's high-energy physics program meet tomorrow and Friday in Washington, D.C.

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