Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Side-by-side comparison of the (left) original Mann et al (1999) “Hockey Stick” reconstruction as featured in the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC 3rd Assessment report (2001) and the (right) longer, sharper “Hockey Stick” as featured in the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC 6th Assessment report (2021). Cross-Chapter Box 2.1,

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. 46 days after publication allowing for a comment period, the Department will be free to adopt the 2021 IgCC by regulation. . The backstory is important.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The landscape of Kulaley Village in northern Kenya lays barren after a drought in 2011. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 18, 2021. In 2011, two failed rainy seasons thrust the Horn of Africa into the worst famine of the twenty-first century. Photo © OxFam East Africa / Wikimedia Commons.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Las Conchas fire in northern New Mexico in June 2011 pumped so much ash into the Rio Grande that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority had to close its drinking water intake on the river. Is the state prepared for more? It dries out vegetation and kills trees, turning forests into matchsticks.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

San Francisco-based Antitrust/Competition partner Daniel Asimow was named to Daily Journal's 2021 "Top Antitrust Lawyers" report. ” Asimow has been previously recognized by the publication, which named him to their "Top 100 Lawyers in California" reports in 2011 and 2016 and their “Top Antitrust Lawyers” report in 2020.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th First, that EIR was superseded and replaced by the Regents’ subsequently certified 2021 EIR. 2021-2022) (SB 118) rendered the relief granted by the trial court unenforceable. Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. The Regents of the University of California, et al. 2023) Cal.App.5th.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

2021 , see Figure 3. A recent study by Qasmi 2023 has combined observations and models to isolate the drivers and concludes for the ‘cold blob’ region: “Consistent with the observations, an anthropogenic cooling is diagnosed by the method over the last decades (1951–2021) compared to the preindustrial period.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Wind power generation will continue to rise, including in the near term as a result of one of the US wind industry’s best years ever in 2021. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We pointed out in March that Scafetta had totally neglected observational uncertainty in calculating the observed change in temperature (2011-2021 compared to 1980-1990). Note that the short period 2015-2021 is not long enough to have the differences in emissions make a big dent in the concentrations or, subsequently, the climate).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Both Winter Storm Elliott in 2022 and Winter Storm Uri in 2021 caused major failures on the nation’s power grid on a historic scale, triggering power outages for millions of people during some of the most dangerous weather conditions of the year. Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 caused gas production to significantly decrease.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 1, 2023

utility-scale battery storage market has existed in earnest since 2011 led by one dominant battery chemistry choice: lithium. According to data through 2021 from the U.S. Read the full story at Solar Power World. Although still very much in its infancy, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 9, 2024

Durante las cinco tormentas invernales más extremas desde el 2011, hubo amplias fallas en las centrales eléctricas de gas, muchas veces acompañadas por apagones de gran escala. Durante la Tormenta Invernal Uri en la parte central de los Estados Unidos en 2021, falló la cuarta parte de la capacidad eléctrica en esa área.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

That decision—along with a 2011 decision of the Ninth Circuit vacating the only two National Corridor designations—brought FERC’s transmission permitting activity to a halt. But a 2009 decision of the Fourth Circuit struck down that interpretation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 A 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

I lived through one of these storms recently in Texas: Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, which had me juggling microwaving food and charging devices as the local utility imposed rolling blackouts during the freeze. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Data: NOAA 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

per MMBtu) versus the average price in 2021 ($3.84 Details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. This year’s distribution is over $44 million higher than last year, driven primarily by the average price of natural gas in 2022 ($6.64

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Nanotech

JULY 29, 2021

As reported in our May 7, 2021, blog item , the European Commission (EC) recently held a targeted stakeholder consultation to update, test, and verify the preliminary findings of its review of the 2011 Recommendation on the definition of a nanomaterial.

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Environment Next

JULY 22, 2021

On July 21, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2011 , requiring EPA to establish nationwide drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the thousands of PFAS compounds. Senate, where an earlier version of the bill had passed in January 2021, but ultimately died.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 12, 2022

Guest Post by Brendon Anthony , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. more ripe = improved quality) (Anthony and Minas, 2021). As a result, the tree density cannot exceed 500 trees per acre and so are defined as LDPs (Anthony and Minas, 2021). production efficiency) (Anthony and Minas, 2021).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On September 8, 2011, Tropical Storm Lee produced over 15 inches of rainfall in the 120 square mile Upper Swatara Creek watershed. The project was completed in 2021 and came in under budget. The award was presented to Clauser Environmental, LLC, the company that did the work on the project.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019). Prior to joining NREL, he led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

2659-2673, 2011. Sejas, "On the Nature of the Arctic's Positive Lapse‐Rate Feedback", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Bintanja, E.C. van der Linden, and W. Hazeleger, "Boundary layer stability and Arctic climate change: a feedback study using EC-Earth", Climate Dynamics , vol. Aue, and A. Kahraman, E.J. Kendon, S.C. Chan, and H.J.

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Brag

JULY 13, 2021

On July 2, 2021, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) introduced a bill called the Small Refinery Exemption Clarification Act of 2021. ” Representative Feenstra emphasized that “we must erase ambiguities and ensure oil refineries are not able to take shortcuts when it comes to blending biofuels.”

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures. El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) impart a slight cooling. GISTEMP anomalies (w.r.t.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. All four oil majors publicly claim to support the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019). Prior to joining NREL, he led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Nanotech

JUNE 4, 2021

On May 31, 2021, the European Union (EU) Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) published a Nanopinion entitled “ Updating our language: why we should not paint all nanoforms with the same brush ” by Chiara Venturini, Director General of the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA). Venturini reviews how the EU’s language has evolved.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

While agricultural burning declined between 2003 and 2011, reducing particulate pollution by more than 50%, California’s record-breaking drought has led to a tripling of the amount of waste burned , with some fearing further escalation of burning as drought persists.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. How he did it: From 2019 through 2021 in managing different oil and gas mineral rights investment funds he allegedly inflated the value of the rights to be sold to investment funds and used their money to obtain a loan of $6.5

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Spring-Ford Area School District , Royersford, Montgomery County, and Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania , Shippensburg, Cumberland County, were recognized as 2022 ED-GRS schools, and officials also honored awardees from 2019, 2020, and 2021 during the first in-person ceremony since the pandemic.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The 2021-2022 Legislative Session was light on CEQA amendments, and once again did not produce any significant reform. SB 6 was the companion bill to AB 2011, but it does not create a ministerial approval process. While not amendments to CEQA itself, these new targets are worth noting as they will invariably appear in CEQA documents.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The PA Recycling Markets Center , in collaboration with Penn State Harrisburg and the Department of Environmental Protection, will host the in-person and virtual 2021 Research Showcase on October 7-8 at the Mukund S. To register for on-site or virtual attendance, visit the 2021 Research Showcase webpage.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Her postdoc at ETH Zürich was followed by a position as Researcher at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011), and Visiting and Senior Scientist at MIT (2011–12). She has published more than 110 papers, holds 19 patents, and is a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum.

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