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U.S. Geological Survey Pennsylvania Water Science Center Spring Newsletter Now Available

PA Environment Daily

Visit the USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center webpage for more information on available water resource research and partnership opportunities.

2003 92
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Nanocolumnar films: applications in medicine, energy and aerospace

Physics World

He joined CSIC in 2003 and secured a permanent position in 2006. In 2014, he led the project “Nanoimplant” that won the IDEA²Madrid Award (a partnership of Comunidad de Madrid in Spain and MIT in USA). After obtaining his PhD in physics at UCM (Spain) in 1999, he was a Marie Curie postdoc at Paris-Sud University (France) in 2000–2002.

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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. Met needed the flexibility of extra Lake Mead storage for two reasons: a court decision limited California’s use of Colorado River starting in 2003 and its supply from reservoirs in northern California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is quite variable. million acres.

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Fusion community mourns death of ITER boss Bernard Bigot aged 72

Physics World

Following positions at École normale supérieure de Lyon, he became director of the institution in 2000 and then high commissioner for atomic energy in 2003. Born in Blois, France, on 24 January 1950, Bigot studied physical science at the École normale supérieure in Paris and later gained a PhD in chemistry.

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Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Corp Watch

billion in 2014 to the U.S. Toyota workers urged to reject union Grace Macaluso | Windsor Star | February 19, 2014 The head of a U.S. Toyota fined for tax avoidance: report Sydney Morning Herald | October 8, 2003 Top Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. It paid out a fine of $1.2

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DEP To Report $4.7 Million, 17.6% Deficit, In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program To EQB Feb. 15; Conventional Drillers Only Pay 0.4% Of Their Regulatory Costs

PA Environment Daily

The last update was in 2014. There has been no increase in fees for conventional oil and gas drillers since 2014. Since 2003, General Fund support for environmental programs in DEP have been cut about 40 percent and as a result staffing was reduced by nearly 30 percent, especially in water quality protection programs.

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Dust with a side of disease

Our Environment

It is speculated that the H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks, which riddled Japan and South Korea throughout 2003-2005, were further spread by an increase of the virus load during dust storms around Asia. Environ Int, 2014. Type A influenza concentrations have also been detected in air samples from Taiwan after local dust events [4].