Tag: NASA

TEMPO System and Pollution Monitoring Implications

TEMPO, which stands for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution, is the first-ever space-based instrument to monitor air pollutants hourly across the North American continent during daytime. Recognized by TIME magazine as one of the best inventions of 2023, this National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) instrument tracks pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, aerosols, sulfur dioxide, […]

Proposed Climate Disclosures for Federal Contractors

The Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently proposed a rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement a requirement to ensure certain federal contractors disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate-related financial risk and set science-based targets to reduce their […]