Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2023 SB 253. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2015 SB350. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. One of the CFR-600s may have reached criticality in mid-2023, though whether it is connected to the electricity grid remains unclear. billion in 2023. U-235) for China’s CEFR. The cooperation was extended in December 2016.

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Nanotech

MARCH 28, 2023

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) will hold a public meeting May 31-June 1, 2023 , to discuss the revision of the 2011 National Nanotechnology Initiative Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy (EHS Research Strategy).

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A take-home message from a talk by Gabriele Messori, Ehlke Hepworth, and Marcello Vichi at the European Meteorological Society’s 2023 annual meeting in Bratislava was that high-latitude cyclones in the Southern Ocean can reach and shape the Antarctic sea-ice. 2659-2673, 2011. S1-S516, 2023. Aue, and A. Blunden, T. Boyer, and E.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Those high temperatures are part of a global period of extraordinarily warm temperatures—2023 was the hottest year on record, and global temperatures have continued to run about 1°C (nearly 2°F) above the historical average so far this year. Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011.

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Nanotech

MAY 25, 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has extended the comment period for its April 5, 2023, request for information (RFI) seeking public input in updating the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Research Strategy. EDT) on June 16, 2023.

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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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Nanotech

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a webinar on January 25, 2024, on its October 2023 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) reporting rule under Section 8(a)(7) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

She served as Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association (2006-2011) and as Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University where she holds an appointment as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty.(2011-present). 2011-present). Posted: March 10, 2023] PA Environment Digest Doors open at 6:45 p.m.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Guest Post by Sabari Kumar , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2011): 1239-1249. 2023-32-0052. SAE Technical Paper, 2023. ” (2023). ” (2023). ” Nature (2023): 1-6. ” Science 379.6637 (2023): 1123-1130. ” Science 379.6637 (2023): 1123-1130.

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Nanotech

APRIL 6, 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published a request for information (RFI) on April 5, 2023, seeking public input in updating the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Research Strategy. EDT) on June 2, 2023. Comments are due on or before 5:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ There were two shale gas wells on Mohr B drilled in March of 2009 and May of 2011.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lockheed Martin to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Allegations Resulting from Fraudulent Submission of Government Contract US Department of Justice PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:48 Monday, January 24, 2011 Read more Case Involved National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel. References C.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Wall Street Journal PaulaR Mon, 08/28/2023 - 12:50 Monday, May 23, 2011 Read more Mike Ramsey Volkswagen AG on Tuesday will celebrate the opening of a new Tennessee auto plant that gives the German auto maker much lower U.S. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2024

Since August 8, 2023, Roulette Oil and Gas LLC has failed to resolve abandoned well violations involving the Guardian B shale gas well pad in Hebron Township, Potter County , even after DEP met with the operator-- Jim Reynolds-- twice on the site, according to DEP inspection reports.

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Corp Watch

APRIL 18, 2023

Söldner bei Computerspiel-Release: "Die Jungs sind super drauf" TAZ PaulaR Tue, 04/18/2023 - 19:26 Monday, October 31, 2011 Read more Bei einer PR-Veranstaltung des First-Person-Shooters "Battlefield 3" erklärten die Kämpfer einer umstrittenen deutschen Söldnerfirma echte Kriegstaktiken.

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Nanotech

MARCH 7, 2023

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) will hold a webinar on “What’s Next in NanoEHS: The Young Professional’s Perspective” on March 28, 2023. According to the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office’s (NNCO) announcement, the 2023 theme complements the NNI’s effort to refresh its 2011 nanoEHS research strategy.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Jennifer Nijman Just this month, on October 11, 2023, EPA issued its final rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requiring a wide range of companies to report and retain records of extensive PFAS data. The rule will take effect November 13, 2023.

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Toxic Substances Control Act 2011 2023 Regulations 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2024

Between 2011-2022 there were 281 confirmed JCV infections in the USA that occurred across 23 states, including some western, midwestern, northeastern, and southern states. JCV is related to other California serogroup orthobunyaviruses, such as La Crosse, Keystone, and Snowshoe hare viruses. It is considered a nationally notifiable disease.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2023

On Thursday, March 2, 2023, California’s principal energy agencies – the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) – held a first-of-its-kind, joint en banc hearing at Cal Poly Humboldt with Tribal government leaders and all 10 commissioners of the CEC and CPUC.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pennsylvania schools, districts, and institutions of higher education are invited to submit their self-nomination materials for the 2023-24 the Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools program and Pennsylvania Pathways to Green Schools Program awards via the dual application, available on the Pennsylvania Department of Education website.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. Posted: June 20, 2023] PA Environment Digest The distributions for individual municipalities are detailed on the PUC’s Act 13 webpage.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

CES-E was designed to maintain the state’s existing clean energy supply from nuclear and large hydroelectric generators with a nameplate capacity greater than 30 megawatts and whose commercial operations started prior to 2011. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) 2023 is starting the year with a mild La Niña, which is being forecast to switch to neutral conditions by mid-year. It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the first half of 2023, the combined share of renewable diesel and biodiesel rose to 59 percent of total diesel fuel use in California. The share of renewable diesel and biodiesel blending into diesel fuel sold in California has grown rapidly and in the first half of 2023 it reached 59 percent. farmdoc daily, March 29, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In accordance with Act 57 of 2011, Oil City was eligible to receive 25 percent of the Act 57-eligible portion of civil penalties collected and use those funds for projects that eliminate or reduce air pollution for parks, recreation projects, trails, or open spaces. Posted: November 13, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Under the COA, Shell will pay a civil penalty of $4,935,023 – and as required by Act 57 of 2011, 25 percent of this penalty will be directed to local communities. Shell will also pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The study found that in during the 2011 “bloom season” from July to October, 56 percent of lakes near agricultural land had cyanobacteria levels that exceeded original thresholds from the World Health Organization, versus 41 percent of lakes in areas with natural land cover.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

The House Oversight Committee found that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell handed out more than $44 billion in stock buybacks and dividends when profits started to rise last year, and those numbers are only going up: in April, ExxonMobil upped its buyback program from $10 billion to $30 billion through 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2023

Randon Willard, executive director for the Coraopolis Community Development Corporation, said the work he had done with students enrolled in the Pittsburgh Studio in 2011 made him look forward to the opportunity to work with them again in 2023. Posted: April 21, 2023] PA Environment Digest Reprinted from Penn State News.)

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

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.” 2011; Garzoli et al.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2023

DEP inspection report - example of one well] DEP requested a response from the operator by June 28, 2023. The operator was requested to provide a written report by June 25, 2023 on how they plan to bring the well into compliance. [ No other action was taken on the well abandonment NOV that was issued on June 5, 2023 by DEP.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5 The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al. residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, agriculture, etc.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Data: NOAA 2023. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. It has also shaped my career choice. Map of survey responses by the most frequently reported extreme event type: a) drought; b) wildfire; c) heatwaves.

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