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NRDA Settlement Reached for 2014 Galveston Bay Oil Spill

The Energy Law Blog

On December 3, 2021, the Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register of a settlement between Federal and State Trustees and Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve natural resource damages from a 2014 oil release. The Trustees for this incident include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S.

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Global e-waste emissions jump 53 percent between 2014 and 2020

Environmental News Bits

E-waste GHG emissions rose 53 percent between 2014 and 2020. Researchers anticipate e-waste will annually generate 852 million metric tons of CO2 compounds … Continue reading Global e-waste emissions jump 53 percent between 2014 and 2020.

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How not to science

Real Climate

McNider and Christy, Feb 19th 2014, Wall Street Journal Most of the op-ed is a rather tired rehash of faux outrage based on a comment made by John Kerry (the then Secretary of State) and we can skip right past that. The version of the MSU2R product at the beginning of 2014 was version 5.5, But it gets worse. K/dec 95% CI, natch).

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‘Interstellar’ Meteor Signal May Have Been a Truck

Scientific American

New analyses cast doubt on claims that a meteor witnessed over the South Pacific in 2014 came from another star system and raise questions about a high-profile expedition to recover the fireball’s fragments from the seafloor

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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

CMIP6 model spread and mean compared to the NOAA-STAR observations for three SSU channels (using the historical simulations continued by SSP5-85 after 2014). 13,180-13,205, 2014. Thompson et al. We are using the NOAA-STAR version 3.0 of these products (Zou et al., 2023 ) and also in the “Climate Drivers” animation.

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Louisiana Oilfield Settlement Agreement Fails to Release Non-Party

Energy & the Law

Adams settled with most of the defendants by a settlement agreement in 2014 but continued to seek damages from the Grafers. The Grefers were not released by the 2014 settlement agreement. The Grafers owned the land where, pursuant to a lease, the pipes and other equipment were cleaned. Your musical interlude

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EU Aims to Wean Off Fossil Fuels as Energy Prices Spike on Ukraine Invasion

Yale E360

The Russian attack on Ukraine has led to a spike in energy prices, with oil briefly surpassing $100 a barrel , the highest level since 2014, and Dutch and British gas prices rising 40 to 60 percent Thursday. Russia is the world's second-largest exporter of oil and largest exporter of natural gas.