Circle of Blue

JUNE 18, 2021

In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. As a Hot, Dry Summer Begins in California, More Water Wells Are Failing.

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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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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A former columnist for Slate Magazine and The Wall Street Journal , Eric Holthaus has championed climate change reporting for over a decade, originally coming to some prominence through his writing on 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Nate Johnson.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Here are a few details about the four bills: House Bill 2021 creates the emission reduction mandate. The cuts are measured from a 2010-2012 baseline. In her brief signing statement, Governor Brown said: “If other states follow Oregon’s lead, 2021 can be a year of climate action for this country. There is no time to lose.”.

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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. B282016, 2018 WL 6735201 (Cal.

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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 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9 So far, no alarm bell has been loud enough to stop the sleepwalking. percent agreement.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 13, 2021

Arnold & Porter partners Dipanwita Deb Amar and David Reis were named to the Daily Journal 's 2021 list of "Top Labor & Employment Lawyers." Despite those issues, Amar has “continued to have success in her litigation” in 2021 and stays on the pulse of local legal developments.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Oct 28, 2021 noon-1:00 pmRegister here. The Illinois Coastal Management Program (CMP) was established in 2012 as part of the National Coastal Zone Management Program, administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 17, 2021. In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

FDA’s decision to issue this investigator-specific guidance follows publication of a draft sponsor-specific safety reporting guidance in June 2021, and is part of an effort to ultimately replace the older guidance documents with role-specific guidance. 2021) (RWE Draft Guidance). 2021) (Registry Draft Guidance).

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Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — July 1, 2021. Between 1958 and 2012, the heaviest 1 percent of storms in the Midwest became 37 percent more powerful. Warmer global temperatures cause more water to evaporate from Earth’s surface and oceans, meaning that there is more fuel for storms. Notorious4life.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. Wildfire suppression expenditures in California from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2022, in million U.S. Source: Statista 2023.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has announced that July 2021 has earned the distinction of the hottest month ever recorded. A map of the world plotted with some of the most significant climate events that occurred during July 2021. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI. Record-breaker.

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Physics World

APRIL 20, 2022

Jose A Martín Gago , research professor at ICMM-CSIC from 2012, obtained a PhD in physics funded by ESRF, Grenoble. For six months during 2020–2021, he was invited professor at FZU-mobility program at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

Guest Post by Katie Nigro , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2012; Ste-Marie et al., 2012), as was done with the Florida torreya ( Torreya taxifolia ) in a citizen-initiated conservation effort that garnered quite a bit of controversy in 2008. 2012; Ste-Marie et al., 2019; Pedlar et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2023

DEP inspection records show a notice of violation was issued on March 2, 2012 to Prosperity Oil for failing to operate a well to ensure its integrity and on March 2, 2021 for venting gas in a manner which causes a hazard to the public. Both violations are still outstanding. Both violations are still outstanding.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Guest Post by Leena Vilonen , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. A scientific study measured the severity of drought across the western US from 2000 to 2022 and found that in 2021 almost 80% of the western part of the US experienced exceptional or extreme drought (Williams et al. drought of 2012. Rippey, BR.

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 9, 2024

En 2022, más del 22 por ciento de la electricidad en el país se generó con fuentes renovables como el viento, el sol y el agua, casi el doble de su contribución en 2012. 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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On December 4, the Delaware River Basin Commission released a new report-- A Comprehensive Assessment of the Delaware River Basin’s Water Audit Program (2012-2021) -- providing a detailed look at ten years of Water Audit Program data. This analysis is the first of its kind in the country.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 16, 2022

In 2021, Nigeria promulgated the 2021 Climate Change Act , which provides a framework for climate actions at the national level. Most of the initiatives envisioned in Nigeria’s new Climate Change Act build on prior climate change policies, most of which were adopted in 2021 (i.e., Overview of the Climate Change Act 2021.

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HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2022

Guest Post by Rehman Lund , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2021 Along with the loss of valuable water, seepage results in some negative impacts on the environment. 2012) and (ii) the near-surface soils because of the evaporative concentration, leading to soil salinization. Source: Lund et al. Martin, C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021. These design features include: Doubling the annual cap decline from 2 to 4 percent from 2021 to 2030.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

2012) , as well as heat transport from lower latitudes. Clouds also affect the albedo, and both clouds and air moisture affect the surface heat loss to space. Other mechanisms include changes in the lapse rate (Boeke et al., 2020) and boundary layers (Bintanja et al., Boeke, P.C. Taylor, and S.A. Bintanja, E.C. van der Linden, and W.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

The co-author of more than 150 papers with more than 10,000 citations in the general area of fuel cells and electrolysis, he received the 2021 ECS Energy Technology Division Research Award and 2012 ECS Tobias Young Investigator Award. Prior to joining NREL, he led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

Yet, Teviston needed drought relief because of the 2012-2016 drought and their wells failed again in 2021. Yet, Teviston needed drought relief due to the 2012-2016 drought. Their wells failed again in 2021. miles away from a canal. miles away from a canal.

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Capaccio

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

On February 5, 2021, the U.S. A decade later 2012, the agency officially harmonized the HCS with the third revision of the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). Individuals may submit comments under Docket No.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Stefan Lovgren – September 15, 2021. Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. The rivers are an ecological bounty in the Mekong watershed.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8 million from DCNR; -- FY 2012-13 budget continues the $102.8 million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8 million from DCNR; -- FY 2012-13 budget continues the $102.8 million in across-the-board cuts to help fill gaps caused by reduced federal Medicaid appropriations-- $2.4

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

The co-author of more than 150 papers with more than 10,000 citations in the general area of fuel cells and electrolysis, he received the 2021 ECS Energy Technology Division Research Award and 2012 ECS Tobias Young Investigator Award. Prior to joining NREL, he led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

I remember that Hurricane Sandy struck the New York City region in 2012 and know that the home buyout programs may not have reduced the vulnerability of buyout recipients to hazards. There’s a long list of disasters in my brain that serve as constant reminders of why I’m fighting for climate action. And, of course, the fires.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2023

2012: Intuition about innovation Our first effort on innovation began at the inception of the ReNUWIt program, with an article arguing that there is an innovation deficit in the urban water sector. 2021) Our first set of results from these surveys focused on utility managers’ responses.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition said Section 3225(a)(1) Act 13 of 2012 set bond amounts for oil and gas wells, but did not differentiate between conventional and unconventional wells. The operative language links these Fiscal Code provisions to Section 3225(a)(1) of Act 13 of 2012 and says-- “Section 1606-E. Conventional oil and gas well bonding.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2023

Vending machine selling water on Maui, 2021. In 2021, a new Maui Water Use and Development Plan was released with an aim to protect traditional water rights and resources. A new study finds that the risk of natural disasters caused by glacial melt and global warming is especially profound in India, Pakistan, Peru, and China.

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