Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

However, there was one piece of evidence in the article we could not examine; a speech by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to China’s Second Artillery in December of 2012. Nothing in Xi’s December 2012 speech indicates Xi intended to change China’s longstanding views on nuclear weapons. This remains his priority for the Chinese military.

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New Scientist

APRIL 9, 2024

He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94.

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2012 145

Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

White rhinos saw their numbers grow for the first time since 2012 last year, boosted by efforts to restore the creatures to the African landscape. Read more on E360 →

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2012 219

Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 29, 2022

The tire company has been researching and implementing materials from the desert plant since 2012. The post Bridgestone Increases Investment In Guayule for Natural Rubber Materials appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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2012 290

Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the aftermath of major power outages, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the interest in microgrids increased significantly as a way to provide critical infrastructure and services with reliable and resilient power during emergencies.

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New Scientist

APRIL 10, 2024

Since 2012, Mary Jo Hoffman has taken one snap a day of the natural objects around her. She explains what lies behind two of them - and what the "art of noticing" has brought to her life

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2012 117

New Scientist

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A study estimating humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific Ocean from crowdsourced photos reveals a sharp decline from 2012 to 2021 after decades of slow population growth

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2012 Ocean 2021 144

Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the aftermath of major power outages, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the interest in microgrids increased significantly as a way to provide critical infrastructure and services with reliable and resilient power during emergencies.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

In 2012, the Mandarin Oriental set out to make a lasting impact — sustainability-wise. The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. Its goal has been to reduce its overall footprint by 20–25% across these targets.

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Waste 2012 Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 289

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to 0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 [0.08

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Sea Level 2012 Radiation Ocean 340

Yale E360

APRIL 14, 2023

Since 2012, more than half of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon occurred on private lands, according to a new study highlighting the impact of Brazil's landowner-friendly policies. Read more on E360 →

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Deforestation 2012 163

Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The background In 2012 mineral lessee Swift and landowners the Quintanilla Ranch and the Dickinson Ranch sued Regency Field Services (now ETC) for tort and trespass in connection with Regency’s H2S disposal well. ETC moved to dismiss based on Ageron’s lack of standing, arguing that the H2S claims accrued in 2012 to the Dickinson Ranch owners.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

In 2012, the Mandarin Oriental set out to make a lasting impact — sustainability-wise. The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. Its goal has been to reduce its overall footprint by 20–25% across these targets.

Waste 246

Waste 2012 Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 246

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 15, 2022

Flames tower above the trees in the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado. The third most destructive fires in state history, it burned nearly 350 homes (Airman Magazine, Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0).

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2012 Climate Change 206

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The annual standard — basically the worst day of the year — has gone from 260 μg/m³ in 1971, down to 150 μg/m³ in 1987, 65 μg/m³ in 2006, and 12 μg/m³ in 2012, where they have stayed ever since. standard of between 9 and 10, or 10-25% lower than the 2012 standard. EPA’s scientific advisory board is recommending a standard below 0.06

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Law and Environment

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Instead, EPA proposes to reaffirm its 2012 and 2016 determinations supporting such regulation. . Thus, the rule looks even more “appropriate” now than it did in 2012 or 2016 or 2020. This is not surprising and should not be controversial. I’m still hardcore on cost-benefit analysis.

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Regulations 2012 2016 2020 238

Yale E360

MAY 21, 2021

A new study estimates that roughly $8 billion of the $63 billion in damages caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 can be attributed to sea level rise of just four inches caused by global warming. Read more on E360 ?.

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Sea Level 2012 169

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), updating this valuable tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 2012.

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2012 Natural Resources 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As far back as 2012, he recommended doing away with the ICBMs, taking US nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, and reducing the number of deployed US nuclear warheads—estimated at the time at 2,150 —to 900. I’d be happy to put that mission on the submarines.” Cartwright, meanwhile, has spoken out numerous times on the topic.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 16, 2023

The genome of Ötzi, the 5300-year-old mummified man found in the Alps, was first published in 2012, but a more accurate readout has changed the story of where his ancestors came from

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2012 98

New Scientist

JULY 11, 2023

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmüller theory has attracted controversy since it was published in 2012, with no one able to agree whether it is true. Now, a $1 million prize is being launched to settle the matter

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2012 98

New Scientist

APRIL 4, 2023

Since 2012, Australia has detained hundreds of children seeking asylum, often for years. Now a review has revealed the lasting physical and mental health impacts of this policy

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2012 101

The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2012-N06 (2012), [hereinafter NTL 2012-N06]. NTL 2012 N-06, 3. NTL 2012 N-06, 5. NTL 2012-N06, at 28 (emphasis added). By Sarah Y. Dicharry and Robert E. 30 CFR 254.23. Also, 30 CFR 254.23(g) 30 CFR 254.23(g)(2). For instance, 30 CFR 254.26

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2012 Oil Pollution Act Regulations Technology 40

Physics World

JULY 4, 2022

Finally, on the morning of 4 July 2012, the suspense was ended. In the July episode of the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester revisits that historic day in 2012. Everyone knew something big was coming. He’s joined by two guests who were there at the particle physics lab in Geneva to live through that memorable day.

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2012 119

Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

The 2012 MS4 Permit in a Nutshell. The MS4 permit currently in effect was issued in 2012 and re-adopted the receiving water limitations—or the maximum amount of a pollutant that may be added to a specified water body—from the earlier permit established in 2001. Taking the 2012 MS4 Permit to Court. The Proposed 2021 MS4 Permit.

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2012 Law Natural Resources 2018 130

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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2012 Government 59

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The PUC was under no obligation to evaluate an energy project conceived of in 2012 the same way in 2022. And speaking of the urgency of the climate crisis the court said, ”The reality is that yesterday’s good enough has become today’s unacceptable. Indeed, doing so would have betrayed its constitutional duty.” Lawsuits against oil companies.

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Clean Air Act Climate Change Law Fossil Fuels 264

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Notwithstanding these differences between EPA’s projections and actual manufacturer decisions, the industry as a whole was not only able to comply with the standards during the period of those standards (2012-2016), but to generate substantial additional credits for overcompliance.” [p. 175 of the pre-Fed.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The bill, HB 590 , extends a prior substantive change in the law that was affected by the 2012 amendments to La. As was the case in 2012, this proposed amendment would also extend this direct payment requirement to any overriding royalty interests burdening the nonparticipating owner’s lease.

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New Scientist

APRIL 27, 2022

From the discovery of the first subatomic particle to the confirmation of the Higgs boson in 2012, Suzie Sheehy's account of experiments that changed our world is detailed but lively

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2012 98

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In fact, between 2012 and 2023, about half the country, including much of Pennsylvania, has shifted a half-zone warmer. For example, the 2012 map, based on data from 1976 to 2005, places nearly all of Lancaster County in Zone 6b, with an average extreme minimum winter temperature between -5 °F and 0 °F.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ke-Ágnes Horvát from Northwestern University in the US, the study examined the gender of scientists who had at least one research article shared online in 2012 according to Altmetric , which tracks mentions of journal papers across social media, news sites, blogs and other sites. difference between article mentions and publication trends.

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2012 115

Real Climate

MAY 31, 2023

2012) who demonstrated that one model with slight differences in the atmospheric initial conditions can give widely different decadal regional outlooks due to pronounced chaotic variability. 2012) describe. 775-779, 2012. Red for CMIP5 and blue for CMIP5 – ERA5 trends are repeated twice as big black circular symbols.

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Sea Level 2012 Atmosphere 2023 177

New Scientist

AUGUST 3, 2021

A time crystal is a unique phase of matter that flips between two states with no energy input necessary – first proposed in 2012, this type of matter has now been created inside a quantum computer built by Google

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2012 109

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

NewsClip: -- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: PA’s Shale Gas Industry Used 160 Million Pounds Of Fracking Chemicals From 2012 to 2022, New Report Says [Posted: October 24, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Inside Climate News

JULY 27, 2021

judge has ruled that the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute cannot be held responsible for an outside blogger’s 2012 online attack on a prominent climate scientist. By Marianne Lavelle A Washington, D.C.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Since 2012, this threshold had been set at 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood; children at or above… Read more → Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its blood lead reference value – the level at which children ages 1-5 are considered to have high exposure to lead.

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2012 98